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He heard Dona Anna's arch accents arch even to Colonel Pendleton's monotonous baritone! Milly's high, rapid utterances, the suave falsetto of Don Caesar, and HER voice, he thought a trifle wearied, the sound of retiring footsteps, and all was still again. So still that the rhythmic beat of the distant waltz returned to him, with a distinctiveness that he could idly follow.
All now stood dazzlingly unique and white against the tinted sea, and the sun flashed on infinitely stratified walls of oolite, The melancholy ruins Of cancelled cycles,... with a distinctiveness that called the eyes to it as strongly as any spectacle he had beheld afar. After a laborious clamber he reached the top, and walked along the plateau towards the eastern village.
There was in his performances a freshness, a distinctiveness, and, above all, an entire freedom from any thing coarse or offensive, which charmed his audiences from the first. One of his critics has well said of him: "As Caleb Plummer he unites in another way the full appreciation of mingled humor and pathos the greatest delicacy and affection with rags and homely speech.
In the glare of the midday sun, the temples, towers, walls and buttes lose their distinctiveness, while in the shadows of either early morning or the late afternoon, they stand forth as vividly as a profile cameo cut in black on a light ground.
But still, under a mass of calumny and exaggeration, there lay this substratum of truth that he who wills the end wills the means; and that where the interests of a sacred cause are at stake, an enthusiastic adherent will sometimes use methods to which, in enterprises of less pith and moment, recourse could not properly be had. Manning had what has been called "the ambition of distinctiveness."
He was fully conscious of being awake, but no less certainly did it seem to him that he saw certain results with great distinctiveness, partly as realities of the future, partly great longings that they might be realities.
Sometimes these appellatives were derived from some distinctiveness of dress, as in the case of "Dungaree Jack"; or from some peculiarity of habit, as shown in "Saleratus Bill," so called from an undue proportion of that chemical in his daily bread; or for some unlucky slip, as exhibited in "The Iron Pirate," a mild, inoffensive man, who earned that baleful title by his unfortunate mispronunciation of the term "iron pyrites."
A peculiar distinctiveness marked him, out of a marching regiment one would have naturally selected him as the commanding officer, and in any crisis of particular social importance or interest his very appearance would have distinguished him as the leading spirit of the whole.
In cold weather the knitted tuque made in vivid colors was the great favorite. It was warm and picturesque. Each section of the colony had its own color; the habitants in the vicinity of Quebec wore blue tuques, while those around Montreal preferred red. The apparel of the people was thus in general adapted to the country, and it had a distinctiveness that has not yet altogether passed away.
There was always some fear on Conquest's part lest the world should so assimilate her that her distinctiveness which was more like an influence that radiated than a characteristic that could be seen would desert her; and it was with conscious satisfaction that he noted now, after an absence of some months, that it was still there.
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