make distinction

Example Sentences

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Her marks for the day were a little too high; she did not make distinction enough between the good and the poor scholars.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)

Far from me be it to make distinction between them.

From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.

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 Saintsbury, George

Mistress Blanche, if she can hear and make distinction betwixt all these at the self-same moment, then is she no woman like to you.

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah

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 Noyes, William