I had not this reflection about me at the time to console me for my disappointment, and it only now occurs to me that what I took for an absence of distinction may have been such a universal prevalence of it that the result was necessarily a species of Indistinction.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
Nor did this Indistinction work badly: that the other was just as likely to suffer as the doer of the wrong, wrought rather as a deterrent.
"The Flight of the Shadow"
George MacDonald
He would have, if nothing else, the distinction of his unmeasured millions, which would form a poetry, however sordid; the note of the world we mean is Indistinction, and the protagonist of the fiction seeking to portray its fads and characters must not have more than two or three millions at the most.
"Imaginary Interviews"
W. D. Howells