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  • This appellation distin - guishes a class of men who wtxcjjromised to Christ as the fruit of "the travail of His soul," and are called "the holy seed," "a seed" tiiat ay, that the will is subdued, that the rebel is conquered.

    A series of lectures, delivered in Park street church, Boston, on Sabbath evening Congregational Board of Publication 1813

  • I could distin - guish the outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming in.

    Sole Music 2010

  • PINSKY: It's a distin -- I mean you can look -- go to the Centers for Disease Control Web site.

    CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2007 2007

  • In the midst of her affecting wanderings, she preserves the greatness of mind that ever distin-guished her.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Would a man of honour wish to be considered as one of the latter, rather than as one of those who would have distin-guished the fit from the unfit, had they not been dis criminated by human sanctions?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Sir Rowland Meredith my father, and Mr. Fowler my brother, are all to me of the family they distin-guish by their relation, that I know at present.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • The empty elephants were not unemployed, for while we were dispatching the Tiger, the Mohouts were shouting at, and chasing something which we could not distin:

    Sporting Sketches 2002

  • Aelmarkin's cousin Lord Kyrtian, rather than disgracing himself, was distin-guishing himself on the battlefield against the rebellious Young Lords.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Whilst the last members were signing, Doctor Franklin, looking toward the President's chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him that painters bad found it difficult to distin - guish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun.

    Legacy Michener, James 1987

  • Look on page four forty-seven, 'and there, in minute print under the heading Vir - ginia, came two names, the first more distin. guished than the second: James Madison, Jr.,

    Legacy Michener, James 1987

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