As it happened cruelly for Alvan, the woman who had become the radiant indistinct in his desiring mind was one whom he knew to be of a shivery stedfastness.
The axe, too, in some indistinctway felt good in his hand.
The other teachers were indistinct personalities, always very busy and very tired, and talking "school-room" with their meals.
Before he could bring his searchlight into play, an indistinct form had seized him in a feeble but affectionate grip.
The coast, black, sprinkled with lights, sinks and rises in indistinct hillocks.
I was one day on a mountain with a family to whom the guide pointed out an indistinct bluish line, saying, 'There is Toulouse!
Already the leading men of the rear-guard were indistinct in the gloom of the lower zigzags.
Monday was indistinct but luminous, a restless, shimmering background for ideas.
For the long dim lines of her body flowed upwards from her feet like the curves of a slender flame, mingling, aspiring, vanishing; the edges of her features were indistinct as the edges of a flame.
But to Rickman the figure of Poppy, once an obsession, was now as indistinct as the figure of Dicky seen through a cloud of tobacco smoke.
She had just before felt rather the reverse, but she could not exist with that feeling; and it was true that freedom was not so indistinct in her fancy as the idea of love.
Almost instantly, the man heard a low growl, and his eye caught the flash of anindistinct grey shape against the snow floor below him.
There are the remains of numerous other edifices, theatres, and temples, but they are all too indistinct to enable even a professional eye to pronounce with confidence on their plan and particular purpose.
Genesareth has in like manner disappeared; or if there be any relics of the town which once gave its name to the inland sea whose shore it adorned, they are so indistinct and ambiguous as not to merit the notice of the traveller.
Everything was obscure and indistinct till about six o'clock, when the powerful rays of the rising sun dispelled the mist, and Nature was herself again.
The white snow changes to a beautiful pink, whilst the stems of the trees, bright and clearly visible near at hand, become more and more indistinct in the distance, till they are lost in the black background.
The "spirit" should be as indistinct as possible, as it will then be less easy for the subject to dispute the statement that it is the spirit-form of his dead and gone relative.
That crime, in its indistinct blackness, seemed to overshadow him.
They heard once more in the distance the muffled roll of the drum and the indistinctvoice of the crier.
Though she had someindistinct idea of the method of these optical phenomena, still the illusion was almost perfect enough to warrant the belief that her husband possessed sway over the spiritual world.
And, when she stepped on to the lawn and looked at the black bulk of the house, indistinct and shadowy with its backing of trees, tears came into her eyes.
Rostafinski was inclined to make a trichia of it, because of the hair-like capillitium, and markings on the threads, Massee found indistinct spiral markings even, enough to suit at least the prototrichias.
Fleda's memory had retained only anindistinct vision of beauty, like the face of an angel in a cloud as painters have drawn it; now came out the beautiful features one after another, as if she had never seen them.
I have an indistinct impression that the sun would be upon the meridian, if he was anywhere.
I have an indistinct impression of your having once prescribed a ride on horseback for somebody; wouldn't you recommend some measure of prudence to her consideration?
Fleda's mind was crossed by an indistinct vision of peas, asparagus, and sweet corn; she said nothing.
Such cries, indeed, were for some time uttered in vain--the field had probably been left to the dead and the dying; for low and indistinct groans were the only answer which she received for several minutes.
In fact, there was heard among the Welsh army a low and indistinct murmur, like that of "Bees alarmed and arming in their hives.
Mouth very large; avicularia wide and strong; two lateral areae on each side, well developed; surface in front with a few indistinct circular spots around the fenestrae, and behind marked with faint longitudinal striae.
Opening of cell nearly or quite circular, margin much thickened, with three or four short indistinct spines above.
While he was eating, we heard a sound of squalling, indistinct above the roar of the wind in the woods.
Other indistinct sounds also came to our ears from along the road ahead, though nothing was as yet in sight.
We started to run, but soon heard the same cry again, followed by indistinct words.
All, in the exaltation of the wooing days, saw at least the indistinct reflection of the perfect house, but now the Quest is irrevocably in hand they seek and do not find.
The three English girls, pressing timidly to her side, answered with indistinct murmurs which she could interpret to suit her pleasure.
