Distinctive

Examples

• The flora of the Galapagos Islands prove d equally distinctive. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They believe that every race which breeds true, let the distinctive characters be ever so slight, has had its wild prototype. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He said he was a Jew, but there was no distinctive feature to verify this assertion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was a modern building, without distinctive character, but many-windowed, and pleasantly balconied up its wide cream-coloured front. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In spite of very distinctive features of their own, these two teachers do in a manner arise out of, and in succession to these Jewish prophets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His distinctive quality was his openness of mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In all these things the American product resembles the old-world product generally, but always it has characteristics that are distinctive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There could be no question that the most distinctive and suggestive point in the case was the singular disappearance of the door-key. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Such shiftings about of population became a very distinctive part of the political methods of the Assyrian new empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was reorganized as a distinctive cult by Chang Daoling in the days of the Han dynasty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The spirit, he writes, was a new one; it marked the Tang civilization with entirely distinctive features. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But here it was also a religious revolution with a new and distinctive mental vitality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Directness was his distinctive and immortalizing quality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The distinctive features of this lamp consisted in a bowed filament of carbon of very thin, thread-like character, which was made of paper or carbonized cellulose. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This leadership is the distinctive fact about politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Among other distinctive features is its prohibition of either the burning or the burial of the dead. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As Rouseau said: Each individual is born with a distinctive temperament. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The deliberate cultivation of this phase of thought constitutes thinking as a distinctive experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• An occupation is the only thing which balances the distinctive capacity of an individual with his social service. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If Alexandria was late to develop a distinctive philosophy, she was early prominent as a great factory and exchange of religious ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And then, of course, there is the bell--which is the most distinctive feature of the case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Hence the truly human end is the fullest possible of this distinctive human prerogative. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We shall return to the distinctive characters of its civilization later. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The distinctive conditions in the north had, socially, important effects. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Generally they wore a distinctive mantle of rough goat-skin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is quite distinctive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This last-named had also one other distinctive property--that of avarice. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• To Akbar it is necessary to give the same distinctive attention that we have shown to Charlemagne or Constantine the Great. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Standing apart by himself because of his distinctive genius is this Roger Bacon (about 1210 to about 1293), who was also English. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The stretching and drawing of these thicker parts down to a uniform size by the receding of the carriage is the distinctive feature of its action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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