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Sentences ending with distinction

By the article which I have been reading I find the same things happening in the Howland School that we have become familiar with in our Children's Theatre (of which I am President, and sufficiently vain of the distinction. [5]
In any case, what 'Pierre' did was to open up a field which had not been opened before, but which other authors have exploited since with success and distinction. [11]
Yet the features were there, too, regular and fine; and her brown hair waving away from her broad, white forehead over eyes a greyish violet in colour gave her a classic distinction. [11]
Elizabeth of Rumania was one of the most loved and respected of European queens and an author of distinction. [5]
I saw him try to fix up something in his mind to take the bloom off that distinction. [5]
The Ticknor referred to in a former letter was Professor George Ticknor, of Harvard College, a history-writer of distinction. [5]
Tom insisted that they were; it was an added distinction. [9]
The literature of the time is full of allusions to this distinction. [4]
Perhaps one of the most satisfactory incidents of his sojourn was a dinner given to him by the staff of Punch, in the historic offices at 10 Bouverie Street where no other foreign visitor had been thus honored--a notable distinction. [5]
The rulers of the country took the old Alexandrian Archias into their confidence and knew how to honour him by many a distinction. [10]

Short sentences using distinction

However, few escape that distinction. [5]

Sentences containing distinction two or more times

Then we have tried for governor an illustrious Rough Rider, and we liked him so much in that great office that now we have made him Vice-President--not in order that that office shall give him distinction, but that he may confer distinction upon that office. [5]
It was distinction to be loved by such a man; but it was a much greater distinction to be hated by him, because he loved scores of people; but he didn't sit up nights to hate anybody but me. [5]
But the distinction between the cause of the President in beginning the war, and the cause of the country after it was begun, is a distinction which you cannot perceive. [7]
Now, I have all the while taken a broad distinction in regard to that matter; and that is all there is in these different speeches which he arrays here; and the entire reading of either of the speeches will show that that distinction was made. [7]

More example sentences with the word distinction in them

Gifted Hopkins, a young poet of distinction, whose fame will reach you by and by, if it has not come to your ears already. [6]
I always said you were born for high distinction and would achieve it. [5]
Such a place would give distinction to the city, and compel foreigners to recognize the high civilization of America. [4]
I said these words did him extreme credit, but that he must not throw away the imperishable distinction of being the first man to descend an Alp per parachute, simply to save the feelings of some envious underlings. [5]
How much more when the scholar is wrapped in those flowing folds, with their flaming borders, and feels the dignity of the distinction of which they are the symbol! [6]
All the portraits were recognizable as dead Americans of distinction, and yet, through labeling added, by a daring hand, they were all doing duty here as "Earls of Rossmore. [5]
Most of them were peasants; and they exhibited no servility in receiving their marks of distinction, but bowed to the king as they would to any other man, and his majesty touched his cocked hat in return. [4]
Mark Twain, in Washington, was in line for political preferment: His wide acquaintance on the Pacific slope, his new fame and growing popularity, his powerful and dreaded pen, all gave him special distinction at the capital. [5]
The old gentleman was sixty-three years of age when he addressed it to his friend T. Pomponius Atticus, Eq., a person of distinction, some two or three years older. [6]
She thought she was doing right, and they might blame her or not, but her aunt would see that she could not permit any distinction to be set up between her and her husband, etc. [4]
The society of Vienna was at that time, and I believe is still, the absolute reverse of that of England, where all claims to distinction are recognized and welcomed. [6]
It was a very lovely family picture; a pretty house, surrounded by attractive scenery; scholarship, refinement, simple elegance, giving distinction to a home which to us seemed a pattern of all we could wish to see beneath an English roof. [6]
In short, all useful citizens who make worthy contributions--as distinguished from parasites, profiteers, and drones, are invited to be members; there is no class distinction here. [9]
Not in any urgent way, it is true, still she throws out a bait to such as like notice and distinction (in other words, the Human Race). [5]
I said with unobtrusive frankness that I was astonished that such a long-legged, lantern-jawed, unprepossessing-looking specter as he should be singled out for a distinction like that, and asked how it came about. [5]
There were about twenty-five gentlemen present; educated men, men moving in good society, none of them commonplace; some of them were men of distinction, none of them were obscurities. [5]
We need not trouble ourselves about the distinction between this and the Paper Nautilus, the Argonauta of the ancients. [6]
This gives it too much distinction, too much prominence, too much credit. [5]
He was there to-day when you gave me the distinction of your presence. [11]
But the Professor, to whom this information was communicated, doubted whether here it was not a greater distinction to be the daughter of the owner of this region than to be connected with a President of the United States. [4]
It was made to walk among the trees and flowers, it is as simple as you please; and yet it has a distinction that makes you stare. [9]
The distinction extended to the fare, for wine frequently circulated only above the salt, and below it the food was of coarser quality. [4]
You are interested to see no distinction between them; and I venture to suggest that probably your interest blinds you a little. [7]
This invitation promised to lend fresh distinction to her social position, and open a sphere of activity which suited her taste. [10]
Gradually it came to him that the distinction was not one he saw, but one he felt. [13]
I am going to Hartford this afternoon for a day or two, but as soon as I get back I will go to John Elderkin very privately and say: 'Remember the veteran and confer distinction upon him, for the sake of old times. [5]
Nick took easily to accomplishments, and he handled the clumsy tiller with a certainty and distinction that made the boatmen swear in two languages and a patois. [9]
Only Nancy's luxury, though lavish, was never vulgar, and her house when completed had rather marvellously the fine distinction of some old London mansion filled with the best that generations could contribute. [9]
You give me this reception, as I understand, without distinction of party. [7]
She was nearing thirty, and in spite of her beauty and the rarer distinction that can best be described as breeding, she had never married. [9]
Besides, Theocritus and the rest have orders to acquaint the people with the distinction that awaits you and the Alexandrians. [10]
The distinction of the region is its superb oak-trees. [4]
The distinction between the poor teachings of mundane science and our sacred all-embracing teaching is clear to me. [2]
But strictly as the guests were divided with reference to their rank, they mixed without distinction in the conversation. [10]
Hamor gives him the distinction of being the first in the colony to try, in 1612, the planting and raising of tobacco. [4]
They presently achieved the distinction of being denounced by names from the pulpit--which made an immense stir! [5]
Is it strange that this mysterious influence or effluence should belong especially or exclusively to the period of complete womanhood in distinction from that of immaturity or decadence? [6]
But she showed that she made a distinction between them by act and word, the Burgundians being Frenchmen and therefore entitled to less brusque treatment than the English. [5]
A week after taking possession of the apartments in the treasury, the servants received orders to refuse admittance to every one, without distinction of rank or person, informing them that the artist was engaged in working for His Majesty. [10]
To have a superfluity is not a distinction. [4]
How will it suit this intention, then, if in our way of exaggerated ostentation of charity the distinction between rich and poor is made to appear more marked than on ordinary days? [4]
Irving, notwithstanding the success of "Salmagundi," did not immediately devote himself to literature, nor seem to regard his achievements in it as anything more than aids to social distinction. [4]
Out in the suburbs, at the country houses of the first families, people of distinction slept five and six in a room--many with only a quilt between body and matting. [9]
When Apollodorus ceased speaking, Verus offered Simeon Ben Jochai his hand, saying: "I am rejoiced to have met a man of your learning and distinction. [10]
To be on speaking terms with the phenomenon was for the moment a distinction. [4]
Then, all that sought celebrity and fame and distinction expected to find them in the success of that experiment. [7]
It is no small distinction to a man like that to sit here before an intelligent crowd like this and to be classed with Napoleon and Caesar. [5]
Her dark hair, slightly streaked with grey, gave her distinction. [11]
He had a singularly reserved manner and a rare economy of words; also, he had the refinement and distinction of one who had, oforetime, moved on the higher ranges of social life. [11]
A gentleman of singular distinction, you may be well assured, even though you are not familiar with his name; but as I am not writing a biographical dictionary, I shall leave it to my reader to find out who and what he was. [6]
She liked being singled out by an exterior distinction so obvious as Beaton's, and she listened with sympathetic interest to his account of those people. [8]
No one can show the distinction between them. [7]
If others can show any such distinction, I leave it to them to do it. [3]
Their silk hats shone, and their boots; their frocks had the right distension behind, and their bonnets perfect poise and distinction. [8]
She prayed that she might be worthy of this great distinction, this responsibility and blessing. [4]
In my reminiscences she is a person of a certain distinction. [14]
That was why she had the name of Loisette--and had a touch of distinction. [11]
Some of them she had remarked before, at contests of a minor importance, and they seemed to her to possess a certain distinction that was indefinable. [9]
One who has served with distinction upon such boards as the Railroad Commission, the Board of Equalization, etc., etc. [9]
The Drawer has seen hundreds of citizens in a body, going about the country on an excursion, parading through town after town, with no other distinction of dress than a uniform high white hat, who carried joy and delight wherever they went. [4]
I have recently seen a letter of Judge Douglas's in which, without stating that to be the object, he doubtless endeavors to make a distinction between the two. [7]
And herein, it seems to me, lies the broad distinction between most of the English and French literature of the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. [4]
The German dictionary seems to make no distinction between a stranger and a foreigner; in its view a stranger is a foreigner--a sound position, I think. [5]
But it appears scarcely possible to draw any clear line of distinction of this kind. [1]
The definition has scarcely De Quincey's usual verbal felicity, but we can apprehend the distinction he intended to make. [4]
Don't for mercy's sake think I hate them; the distinction is one my friend or I drew long ago. [6]
He laughed, and said it was a distinction without a difference. [5]
It was a room of more distinction than I had seen since I had been in Charlestown, and reflected the solidity of its owners. [9]
The art of rhyming has almost become a part of a high-school education, and its practice is far from being an evidence of intellectual distinction. [6]
He did not return to lunch or dinner--if he had done so he would have found that lunch was dinner and that dinner was supper--another vital distinction between the hotel and the cottage. [4]
It did not require much self-denial, perhaps, to decline the candidacy for mayor of New York, or the honor of standing for Congress; but he put aside also the distinction of a seat in Mr. Van Buren's cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. [4]
Mr. Leslie Stephen remarks ('Essays on Freethinking and Plain Speaking,' 1873, p. 83), "the metaphysical distinction, between material and formal morality is as irrelevant as other such distinctions. [1]
Henderson handling the reins, and making a part of that daily display which is too heterogeneous to have distinction, reverted quite naturally to the tone of worldliness and tolerant cynicism which had characterized his conversation in the morning. [4]
Officers of the regular army did not want this service--away off there where neither honor nor distinction was to be gained. [5]
But William Connor refused to make a distinction between two squadrons of Bengal Cavalry which had been driven back upon the Guards' square and the Sikhs who fretted on their bits, as it were. [11]
She possessed the rare gift of combining conventionality with personal distinction in her dress. [9]
I will then put a gentlemanly chap under wages and send him personally to every author of distinction in the country, and corral the rest of the signatures. [5]
There he soon purchased his freedom, and attained such distinction that Octavianus entrusted this important mission to the man who was so well known in Alexandria. [10]
It was a proud occasion for the widow, and she promised herself high satisfaction in showing off her fine foreign birds before her neighbors and friends--simple folk who had hardly ever seen a foreigner of any kind, and never one of any distinction or style. [5]
It was a proud distinction to be able to say those words. [5]
That its mere profit would have attracted him we do not believe; but its danger, uncertainty, and chance of distinction would irresistibly appeal to him. [4]
Even three years previous I felt how she had seen every little incident of her daily life in a way which gave it vividness and distinction. [11]
Even were the presence of the temporo-occipital, or external perpendicular, sulcus, a mark of distinction between the higher apes and man, the value of such a distinctive character would be rendered very doubtful by the structure of the brain in the Platyrrhine apes. [1]
The Arab's fine pleasant voice, full of sincere cordiality, and the simple distinction and dignity of his manner appealed to Orion, flattered him, gave him confidence, and attracted him to the older man who was, besides, a valiant hero. [10]
The Mississippi River pilot of those days was a person of distinction, earning a salary then regarded as princely. [5]
The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals; but I need say nothing on this head, as I have so lately endeavoured to shew that the social instincts,--the prime principle of man's moral constitution (50. [1]
Cannot the Judge perceive a distinction between a purpose and an expectation? [7]
Was I, Hugh Paret, to be denied the distinction of being a college man, the delights of university existence, cruelly separated and set apart from my friends whom I loved! [9]
It is the one mark of distinction between the "lonesome" little group of big men and the vast herd of medium and small ones. [5]
Some family tradition of wealth or distinction is apt to be at the bottom of it, and it survives all the advantages that used to set it off. [6]
He was one of thousands such, and being a person of distinction he now and then received letters of inquiry, complaint, or condolence. [5]
Yet in spite of the tie a little crooked, and the trousers a little too large and too short, he had touches of that distinction which power gives. [11]
Frankfort is one of the sixteen cities which have the distinction of being the place where the following incident occurred. [5]
As his opinion of his superior Americanism grows, and swells, and concentrates and coagulates, he will go further and try to belittle the distinction of those that saw the Prince do things, and will spoil their pleasure in it if he can. [5]
We were soldiers of France; we had the distinction of being prisoners of war, monsieur. [11]
The same gulf of family distinction separates the Thompsons with a p from the Thomsons without that letter. [6]
We send men of distinction, cultivation, character--our ablest, our choicest, our best. [5]
All these marks of distinction might have turned a weaker brain, but Moor received them calmly, and as soon as he was alone with Ulrich or Sophonisba, appeared no less unassuming and kindly, than at Emmendingen and on the journey through France. [10]
Was not his object, probably, to get a reputation which his whole life belied, and to get it by obliterating the distinction between right and wrong? [4]
He had published nothing since the Huck Finn story, and his company was badly in need of a new book by an author of distinction. [5]

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