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It is the embodying so many separate and well-distinguished characters, in different persons, which forms the grand characteristic—the unequalled supremacy of the poem.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

How wounding a thing, Mr. Belford, is a generous and well-distinguished forgiveness!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel

There is certainly a great deal of entertainment in his comical Humors, and a pleasing and well-distinguished variety in those characters which he thought fit to meddle with.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

All scientific authorities, as well as the best occultists, divide the phenomena of clairvoyance into several well-distinguished classes.

From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Panchadasi, Swami

He could hear, too, the well-known word given in the English dialect, by the equally well-distinguished voice of the commanding-officer, for whom he had once felt so much respect.

From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Scott, Walter, Sir