'Under his care and patronage,' said Aprile, 'you cannot fail of success because you have the peculiar distinction of being the only public scholar I ever taught.'

It was the peculiar and dreadful distinction of our visitation, that none who had been attacked by the pestilence had recovered.

There's a peculiar distinction, Mason.

"Properly clipped in the traditional fashion and carefully groomed, the Poodle has about him an air of distinction and dignity peculiar to himself."

Imperial Beach's status as the only place in California permitting bow fishing from a pier is a peculiar distinction for an unusual town.

St. Mel's holds the peculiar distinction: in the 1966/67 season it held two teams scoreless in Gaelic football.

It also has the peculiar distinction of deciding whether what a lawyer says is libelous by looking at how the document was transmitted.

Only one man, a colonel by the name of Stryjenski, gained the peculiar distinction of giving himself up to Russia.

The surviving families are separated by a peculiar financial distinction.

Because of its name and that pale blue the school enjoyed a peculiar indefinable distinction.