That's a very small distinction, I know, but it may be crucial.

That may sound like a small distinction, but it's a crucial one.

He was twenty-eight years old, and already he had won no small distinction.

I seized over every purchase, every small distinction in price.

I found little Jenny Woods made small distinction between Mr. Geoffrey and Mr. Ginger.

It was a small distinction, I suppose, but I only wish my father could have seen it.

No, it's just a small distinction.

This is no small distinction.

For the rest, there is small distinction in breaking windows, wielding crowbars, and battering the brains of defenceless old gentlemen.

Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

I shall be glad that you will be pleased to shew him any little countenance, or pay him any small distinction.

This is no small distinction, when we consider how these institutions have spread over the land and the great good they have done.

It's a small distinction but an important one, though you can be forgiven for not knowing and take solace from the fact you're not alone.

Now he could decipher all the small distinctions that marked her, subtle as inclusions in quartz.

There but small distinctions, and those softened by immemorial and hereditary usage-thathas in it the sanctity of religion-separatethe savage from his chief.