make distinction
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But her little hand was not equal to the task; and so white was she that the lamplight failed to make distinction between the colour of the drapery and the hue of the flesh.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
Your pestilence is a quicker remedy, but it has not the grace to make distinction; it huddles up honest men and rogues together.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
Which of them both Is dearest to me—I have no skill in sense To make distinction.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
In some cases the resemblance of different species is so close that only one other expedient will make distinction possible, namely, a knowledge of the region from which the wood has come.
From Wood and Forest by William Noyes
Gay, unreflecting Gotham stays not to make distinction, honouring all kinds of notoriety alike; or at all events giving them an equal distribution of its curiosity.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
