And in relation to the point immediately under consideration, they ought to convince us that it is less probable that a predominant faction in a single State should, in order to maintain its superiority, incline to a preference of a particular class of electors, than that a similar spirit should take possession of the representatives of thirteen States, spread over a vast region, and in several respects
distinguishable from each other by a diversity of local circumstances, prejudices, and interests.
When it was objected that Priests and Women had no sides, they retorted that Nature and Expediency concurred in dictating that the front half of every human being (that is to say, the half containing his eye and mouth) should be
distinguishable from his hinder half.
"And this in many degrees; the last and greatest of which seems scarce
distinguishable from madness;--I mean where persons of immense fortunes contract themselves to those who are, and must be, disagreeable to them--to fools and knaves--in order to increase an estate already larger even than the demands of their pleasures.
Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven and entered into everybody's food; it was fermenting still as a
distinguishable vigorous enthusiasm in certain long-haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near them were sometimes caught in the spreading movement.
And, then, as the black falcon wing on the banners of the advancing horsemen became
distinguishable, they saw that it was the Outlaw of Torn.
The animal was only
distinguishable, at that distance, by a slight but almost imperceptible motion of its fins and tail.
Even if this should happen, however, they would still be
distinguishable from sensations by their proximate causal laws, as gases remain
distinguishable from solids.
His person showed marks of habitual neglect, his dress was slovenly; and yet there was something in the presence of the old Squire
distinguishable from that of the ordinary farmers in the parish, who were perhaps every whit as refined as he, but, having slouched their way through life with a consciousness of being in the vicinity of their "betters", wanted that self-possession and authoritativeness of voice and carriage which belonged to a man who thought of superiors as remote existences with whom he had personally little more to do than with America or the stars.
Presently a great city showed below me, but it was not Helium, as that alone of all Barsoomian metropolises consists in two immense circular walled cities about seventy-five miles apart and would have been easily
distinguishable from the altitude at which I was flying.
Love of this sort is hardly
distinguishable from religious feeling.
Tess instinctively thought it might be Marian, and when she came near enough to be
distinguishable in the gloom surely enough it was she.
There was a muffled rush of feet beneath our own, then a dull but very
distinguishable clatter on some invisible stair.