make distinction

Example Sentences

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Far from me be it to make distinction between them.

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

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

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

I     can write very like my lady, your niece; on forgotten matter we     can hardly make distinction of our hands.

From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William

However, we may fairly make distinction between the Bible as an original work and the Bible as a work of English literature.

From Study of the King James Bible by McAfee, Cleland Boyd