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Example sentences for "could distinguish"

  • Through our glasses we could distinguish a female form standing on the gallery.

  • Human voices they were; and borne upon the light breeze we could distinguish them to be the voices of women.

  • The brigands continued their conversation, and the light breeze wafted their voices upwards, so that we could distinguish part of what was said.

  • As they separated I could distinguish De Artigny's final words.

  • As it disappeared I could distinguish De Artigny at the stern, his coat off, his hands grasping a paddle.

  • Occasionally the echo of a song reached my ears, and the distance was not so great but that I could distinguish individuals.

  • The mists had no more than partially dissolved, and all that he could distinguish was a narrow circle of red sand dotted with ten or twenty bushes.

  • Overtopping them, far away, he saw Sant; and he fancied, but was not quite sure, that he could distinguish Disscourn as well.

  • It was hardly raised above a whisper, but he could distinguish that it was not Corpang's.

  • I could distinguish no badge, no insignia of either corps or division; the circling dust enveloped them in a choking, disfiguring cloud.

  • Of the soldier in charge I could distinguish nothing--doubtless he was lounging on his back, half asleep upon some soft patch of grass.

  • As she bent anxiously over me her face was so in shadow that I could distinguish nothing of its features.

  • We could distinguish, too, the loud barking of a dog.

  • A man dressed, as far as I could distinguish, like a chief, with a turban on his head, deposited a basket in the usual spot.

  • We could distinguish no signal from the shore to give us hope.

  • The room was dark, I could distinguish nothing; that I had attempted to do myself some injury, I took for granted, or my arms would not have been secured.

  • We resumed our oars, pulling with the greatest caution; the night was intensely dark, and we could distinguish nothing.

  • I looked him earnestly in the face--the nose was exact, and I imagined that even in the other features I could distinguish a resemblance.

  • It was a dark cloudy night, and when I first went out, I was obliged to grope, for I could distinguish nothing.

  • At first my eyes swam, and I could distinguish nothing, but gradually I recovered.

  • Among them I could distinguish a few French faces, with here and there a woman of the lower orders, ill clad and coarse of speech.

  • We could distinguish gangs of slaves toiling in the fields, and a group of warriors, their spears glistening, clustered together before the gloomy altar-house.

  • I could distinguish, upon the terrace of the temple, the whitish dresses of the captives.

  • On its most distant border, along the base of the snowy mountains, we thought we could distinguish a black line, like that of timber, and for this point we directed our march.

  • A light was brought, and I could distinguish a number of men in hunting-shirts moving to-and-fro with violent gesticulations.

  • I could distinguish in his bold features all the marks of one of those vigorous natures which a kind of predestination seems to push forward for the rude trials of a military life.

  • I then raised my head to seek for the place from which the shot had been fired, but the fog lay so thick on the heights that I could distinguish nothing.

  • Drawing breath, I was amazed to find that my head was above water, although the wild roar of the flood was deafening, and in the total darkness I could distinguish nothing.

  • So dense was this mist hanging over the trackless, pestilential bog that I could distinguish nothing a leopard's leap distant, and my gandoura was as soaked with moisture as if I had waded a river.

  • In the almost impenetrable darkness I could distinguish nothing, but when I heard the footsteps of my captors receding, my heart sank within me.

  • I imagined I could distinguish breathing.

  • At first glance I could distinguish no sign of the boatman left in charge, but, even as I lay there, breathless and uncertain, he suddenly revealed his presence by lighting a lantern in the stern.

  • Out dar am de Beaucaire place," he announced, as soon as he could distinguish my presence, waving his arm to indicate the direction.

  • From where we stood we could distinguish no means of approach to the impregnable fortress, but on coming at last to the base of the rock we found a long flight of narrow steps mounting zig-zag up its dark, moss-grown face.

  • I could distinguish a knot of men close to the water's edge.

  • Retaining its hold on the rocks with a pair of its arms, the hideous brute began to increase its grasp on my leg, while at the union of the slimy tentacles I could distinguish a pair of small, protruding eyes and a formidable beak.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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