His labels also serve as culinary green cards, conferring American credentials on dishes with a distinctly foreign accent.

Democracy has long been a distant and distinctly foreign concept in Communist China.

Only then did she notice that the young woman's face had a distinctly foreign look and tried to identify the difference.

"My ship stopped at Havana," he declared in a distinctly foreign accent.

It is interesting to conjecture what the general reaction was to the appearance of these notes with their distinctly foreign motifs.

They would be identifiable immediately as distinctly foreign, and then as distinctly in the style of no one else but Amberdrake.

He was a small man, distinctly foreign in appearance, with a rigidly waxed moustache and an egg-shaped head which he carried rather to one side.

Mercy, however, remains a distinctly foreign quality, and as a result a fourth title appears an eminent possibility.

Then further west, The Tibetans encountered a distinctly foreign nation.

"Well, Marslandt" - the voice was deep and marked with a distinctly foreign accent - "you haff been here one week now."