Adjective : indistinct markings. ,He heard an indistinct muttering. ,After the accident he suffered from indistinct vision and faulty hearing. From Dictionary.com.
Professor Featherwit caught one name indistinctly; that of the young. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost City] Reference
Aphaniptera: indistinctly winged; see Siphonaptera. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
The rustling increased, and a form could be seen indistinctly. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
Soon he indistinctly saw two men engaged in a hand to hand strife. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
And very indistinctly, from far away, came the colonel's voice, barking. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
She looked up, seeing him indistinctly in the flaring light of the candle. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
"Prisoners loose," was the answer shouted back, but only indistinctly heard. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
A moment later they could see the figure, though indistinctly, in the shadow. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
It was so dark that only, indistinctly, could the forms of raiders be made out. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference
I seemed indistinctly to remember that when I was a child paregoric did the business. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
(The reply to this was rapped indistinctly.) "Have you no pity for any man or animal?". From Wordnik.com. [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference
Other than that his chin was indistinctly flaccid and his teeth distinctively crooked. From Wordnik.com. [Preacher Jefferson] Reference
For the fraction of a second a shadowy figure was indistinctly outlined in the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
He muttered indistinctly some explanation, and was going off, when Gertie called to him. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
Such was the truth, we apprehend, such the character, that Andersen had indistinctly in view. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
"Heaven grant that the necessity will never again be so great!" murmured Johan, indistinctly. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
At Pommern Castle our front trenches, in which figures of men loom indistinctly, are reached. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
The Earl's room was dark, and the faint night light made objects only indistinctly perceptible. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
As for Tooni, she was lying flat at their Highnesses 'feet, talking indistinctly into the marble floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
On the following day we heard, at first indistinctly, toward the front of the column continued cheering. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
"Am geln ..." (most indistinctly) I told her to repeat it, and she began again -- "Am gu ... elen zu aufhören!". From Wordnik.com. [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference
Mary saw him indistinctly through the hedge -- she would have fled, but terror and misery chained her to the spot. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
Here and there a glint of its watery wastes may be seen, but indistinctly, giving the eye a mournful impression of. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
A muffled "Ouch!" came from the open window as a splotch of animated white appeared indistinctly behind the dark screen. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
'Yes; you bide a wee, Muster Alick!' rejoined Jerry confidently, if indistinctly, seeing his mouth was full at the moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
I resumed my place by the side of Browne, he moved, as if about to awake, and murmured indistinctly some broken sentences. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
I indistinctly heard the answer of my charmer, but soon guessed what it had been, when saw her appear on the terrace again. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
In human transactions the law of optics seems to be reversed -- we always see indistinctly the things that are nearest to us. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
A letter of Henry's relating, though indistinctly, for evident reasons, to the sad occurrence, will be placed before the reader. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
Her thick hair hung in two heavy plaits over her shoulders, and in the dim light her face showed indistinctly in its silky black frame. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
Then he babbled indistinctly; his lips grew whiter and ceased from moving; and when the others had come up I think he was already dead. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
They heard indistinctly the sounds of bells ringing wildly, and overhead flocks of birds circled and called with shrill, uncanny voices. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
Then some emotion -- some feeling indistinctly connected with the grandfather who had crossed the plains in forty-nine -- swept over him. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
Just beneath his window, they paused in their walk, and their voices came up to him first indistinctly, then with more and more clearness. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
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