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The study of so-called survivals, therefore, is a most important branch of anthropology, which cannot unfortunately in this hasty sketch be given its due. It would seem to coincide with the central interest of what is known as folk-lore. Folk-lore, however, tends to broaden out till it becomes almost indistinguishable from general anthropology. There are at least two reasons for this.
'Then to the ball at Crocus? 'No. 'My dear Hazel! and 'My dear Miss Kennedy! now sounded from so many female voices in different keys of surprise and triumph, that for a minute or two the hum was indistinguishable. Questions came on the heels of one another incongruously.
Now, then, I don't know how long it will take, but we have got to do it, and when we get back to our schooner, no matter what has happened, there's ten guineas apiece as a sort of prize-money for the brave lads who have helped to pull us through." A loud excited cheer burst from the crew, and several voices broke in afterwards with something indistinguishable amidst the noise. "What's that?
The fire-light shone on the chintz armchairs, and Boxer lay asleep on the black horse-hair rug. Upon the walls the gilt picture frames gleamed faintly, the pictures themselves indistinguishable. Mrs.
When this had been torn into fine and indistinguishable bits and when as a final precaution the fragments had been tossed out of the window, the last possible evidence to link the pseudo Parker with the real Trencher in this night's transactions would be gone.
There were no commands; in that awful environment of whooping shot, exploding shells, shrieking fragments of iron, and flying splinters of wood, none could have been heard. Officers, if officers there were, were indistinguishable; all worked together each while he lasted governed by the eye. When the gun was sponged, it was loaded; when loaded, aimed and fired.
Without stepping beyond the analogy of that which is known, it is easy to people the cosmos with entities, in ascending scale, until we reach something practically indistinguishable from omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience.
There is nothing that may or may not be a Kelt, and I know, for example, professional Kelts who are, so far as face, manners, accents, morals, and ideals go, indistinguishable from other people who are, I am told, indisputably Assyroid Jews. Is War Now Impossible? and see also footnote, p. 210.
He was quite himself again. His voice was steady and deep with the ease and assurance that she liked in him. She had marked to-day in his earnestness, more than at any other time, a slight, an almost indistinguishable trace of another tongue in his English. "How am I to know whether it would be presuming?" she asked. "But I was going to say " "When rudely interrupted!"
There was an indistinguishable answer, and, as I straightened up, the figure of a man blotted out the doorway. "Major Lawrence?" "Yes. What is it?" I swung to the floor, unable to recognize the voice. The man's hand rose to salute. "I am Colonel Gibbs' orderly. General Hamilton wishes you to report at once at headquarters." "The Potts house?" "Yes, sir."
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