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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