He walked among them, and he recognized in them that eagerness and enthusiasm tempered by discipline and professionalism that is the peculiar mark of first-class bush fighters.

It makes a peculiar mark in the dirt every time the wheel goes around.

When we turned the body, I absorbed myself in studying the peculiar mark that was the point of this grim exercise as the forensic photographer arrived and set up his equipment.

He should have known from Joe's clear and steady gaze that was the peculiar mark of the fighter pilot.

There was a peculiar little mark on the side of the scope hole which she hadn't noticed before--circular and definitely out of place.

The baby, Daran, had a peculiar white mark on the palm of his right hand, and that concerned Riva quite a bit.

One of us had a peculiar mark--a large mole on the back of his left hand; that was me.

These threads are proposed as prizes for those persons whom the emperor has a mind to distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favour.

I incurred that peculiar mark some five months past, at the hands of an at quaintance of mine.

They are reeled off, often dutifully and without the angled inflection to reality that the critic Michael Wood has noted as the peculiar mark of Rushdie's talent.