Adjective : indistinct markings. ,He heard an indistinct muttering. ,After the accident he suffered from indistinct vision and faulty hearing. From Dictionary.com.
That there is a degree of confusion and indistinctness in. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
A twilight indistinctness settled over the valley between. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Description, indeed, would rob the song of indistinctness, its essence. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
The starlight, dim and soft, had a sense of silver in its indistinctness. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Each of them peered through the indistinctness of the dusk at the other two. From Wordnik.com. [The Door in the Wall, and other stories] Reference
It is better to take things on trust, with something of distance and indistinctness. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
Upon this occasion the preacher seemed troubled with unusual indistinctness of vision. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
All the bench was in shadow; in the valley below a twilight indistinctness had fallen. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
The power of the contemplative imagination is based on the indistinctness of the image. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference
He appeared to be seeing it with some indistinctness: he was a little tipsy at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Rather, some of them say, the value of their reflection lies in its misty indistinctness. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
But, first and foremost, Pao-yü's excitement was so intense that he spoke with indistinctness. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
I had been contemplating, but found they were already fallen into indistinctness and confusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Sir Leicester, lying in his bed, can speak a little, though with difficulty and indistinctness. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the ground of its indistinctness. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Maw Moss; and, fading into blue indistinctness in the south, the wild heath-clad Peeblesshire hills. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
She held the boy close to her, and listened while he poured forth his story in sobbing indistinctness. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Up the beach by the boathouse a bonfire was burning, raining up sparks into the indistinctness of the dawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
Four miles of distance were not sufficient to give it that grand indistinctness which was now flung over the. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
The critics throughout his career complained of “indistinctness,” “negligence,” and “coarseness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Turner Exhibition] Reference
He had watched hour after hour since first New York had risen out of the blue indistinctness of the landfall. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
What they were conjuring up he didn't know, but so far it was enormously impressive even in its indistinctness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
Emma remained in a state of vexation too; but there was more indistinctness in the causes of her's, than in his. From Wordnik.com. [Emma]
You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
With apologies for my remissness or indistinctness, I assured my lady that I accepted it most readily and gratefully. From Wordnik.com. [George Silvermans's Explanation] Reference
The graceful foliage melting into indistinctness in the gathering twilight, appeared to her horrible and treacherous. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
Yet greater is the indistinctness when they are all jolted together in a little soul, which is narrow and has no room. From Wordnik.com. [Theaetetus] Reference
We must patiently cultivate the divine life planted in us until all that misleads in its indistinctness comes to light. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference
In the indistinctness the little red gleam lit up the lower part of her face, and he saw her mouth tremble into a smile. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Mirth] Reference
Cold sweat beaded his skin, as beyond the ring of dim light he saw a vague and colossal form, awful even in its indistinctness. From Wordnik.com. [Wings in the Night]
There was something insubstantial about him by then, what with his brightness and the spark-shot indistinctness of his outline. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Oberon]
The sun set, and shadows began to steal over the sea, gradually and softly wrapping its farther distances in hazy indistinctness. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
The final chapter of What Good Are the Arts? tries to make a case for literature based on the its characteristic "indistinctness.". From Wordnik.com. [The State of Criticism] Reference
At night the scene is particularly weird and impressive, for the shadows and general indistinctness make everything appear strange. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
He has a sort of indistinctness in his speech, which makes it sometimes necessary for him to repeat his words; and this often annoys me. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
Marcella's voice had an indistinctness very unlike her ordinary tone. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
Within this indistinctness, the workings of perception begin to glint. From Wordnik.com. [rob mclennan's blog] Reference
She looked forth under her brows with mournful indistinctness at that object in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
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