I stopped on the fifth step, rolling my eyes, trying to distinguish any shapes or figures in the darkness.

He could see only a short distance around him, but within a few minutes of escaping the terrorists' assault on the crushing mill, he froze in position when his eyes distinguished several vague figures through the rain ahead.

Though he could not distinguish individual figures at this distance from it, he could see that the interior of the vessel was crowded with honkers.

The glare of the lights was sufficient for these sentinels to distinguish moving figures.

Someone on the bridge with a good pair of night glasses would still be able to distinguish individual figures.

(Alas the glowing, sharp features that usually distinguish bronze figures seem somewhat masked by a muddy finish applied during a recent, much-needed restoration.)

Thurlow could distinguish figures behind the green dome.

Sometimes on a far-off roof she could distinguish minute human figures moving in silhouette against the sky, and she would lose herself in imagining what they saw as they looked out over the endless terraces of the city.

Colors of green, gold, olive, amber, as well as red and blue distinguish the complex canopies and figures.

Carter could now distinguish moving figures on the noisome wharves ahead, and the better he saw them the worse he began to fear and detest them.