make distinction

Reflect, you make a long toil, that way, if you care to look men in the eye at every farm, “Ah, Father, while these gay devils in our hall at ease eat up our flocks and herds, leaving us nothing. As for the maids I say, Yes: make distinction between good girls and those who shame your house; all that I shy away from is a scrutiny of cottagers just now. The time for that comes later—if in truth you have a sign from Zeus the Stormking.”

The shell of him was there, using the room which we had kept for him and eating the food which we produced and prepared as if it could neither feel the softness of the bed nor make distinction between the viands either as to quality or taste.

Mar. I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his eye, he shall find himself most feelingly personated: I can write very like my lady, your niece; on a forgotten matter we can hardly make distinction of our hands.

It is worthy of remark here that even young Hindoo girls, in the exercise of their immature discretion, make distinction between the gods in the choice of their husbands.

We should also make distinction between the two kinds of characters who contend on this stage; namely, the bad and the good Angels, each kind playing its own rôle, even as Cicero and our inborn sense of verisimilitude teach us to picture each character according to his rank and nature.