Meaning of distinctlier | Babel Free

Definitions

comparative form of distinctly: more distinctly

comparative, form-of, rare

Examples

“[…] / And, as they stretched him on the stone of blood, Did the huge trumpet of the God, with voice / Loud as the thunder-peal, and heard as far, / Proclaim the act of death, more visible / Than in broad day-light, by those midnight fires / Distinctlier seen.”

“Nor from the land⟳ / Less awful was the scene. Distinctlier there / We saw⟳ and heard with what hydraulic skill / The dreadless fireman combated the flame, / Unheedful he of peril.”

“Then my own⟳ way / Bless me—a firmer arm, a fleeter foot, / I’ll thank⟳ you, but to no mad wings transmute / These limbs of mine—our greensward is too soft; / Nor camp I on the thunder-cloud aloft— / We feel⟳ the bliss distinctlier having thus / Engines subservient, not mixed up with us— / Better move⟳ palpably through Heaven—nor, freed / Of flesh forsooth, from space to space proceed / ’Mid flying synods of worlds—but in Heaven’s marge / Show⟳ Titan still, recumbent o’er his targe / Solid with stars—the Centaur at his game / Made tremulously out in hoary flame!”

“There is a whisper⟳ ringing clear / In every sleepless listener’s ear, / A whisper⟳ of but scanty cheer⟳, / And heard distinctlier every year— / “You might have⟳ been—you might have⟳ been.””

“Instead of that his hot hand suddenly seized mine and his dull-shining eyes swept my face⟳ for a moment, whilst he cried out, much loudlier and distinctlier than he had as yet spoken anything: “Edith! Ah, Edith, this is you at last⟳. Where have⟳ you been keeping yourself?””

“And then, as when our words seem all too rude / We cease from speech, to take⟳ our thought and brood / Back in our heart’s great dark and solitude, / So sank the strings to heartwise throbbing, / Of long chords change-marked with sobbing— / Motherly sobbing, not distinctlier heard / Than half wing-openings of the sleeping bird, / Some dream⟳ of danger to her young hath stirred.”

““Go,” she said, coldlier, distinctlier than ever she has spoken.”

“If one be a veritable worshipper of Pan, may not the murmur of the sap running up in the trees be heard, distinctlier the more of love⟳ is in the soul?”

“Still another quality which goes to make⟳ Irving pleasant as well as profitable reading, and which we may call⟳ characteristic of the literary man rather than of the historian, is his humor. This is not confined to the Knickerbocker History and lightsome sketches like⟳ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but plays like⟳ heat lightning about the graver books, with a gentle lambency which makes them distinctlier remembered and longer enjoyed.”

“Who knows by what [space left blank] shore / The master Phantast dreamed and strayed / Till the low light⟳ grew strange and more, / And in the gloaming, half-afraid, / Against what dim volcanoes’ murk, / He saw⟳ the immortal masses stir⟳, / Frenziedly gather [left blank] and jerk / Coagulate distinctlier, / Clutch at their Cosmos, shape⟳ and rise⟳ / Stiffening towards unheard-of skies, / In frozen stream stand⟳ stricken, blue, / Inenarrable?”

“—Astern the spikes of rose and aureate dawn, before / In a blue sea there glows—a boundless sea no more— / Distinctlier shapes and grows yon white and verdant shore.”

“For each sentence choose⟳ the correct⟳ form⟳. […] Speak⟳ (distinctlier, more distinctly), please⟳.”

“Most of the following sentences contain⟳ an error in the use⟳ of a modifier. […] Why didn’t you answer⟳ distinctlier?”

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