Detected

Examples

• He took none that could be detected, but, aware of his employer's suspicions, stood with his eyes on the ground. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They were made to pronounce the word Shibboleth and were easily detected as enemies when they pronounced it Sibboleth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The anxious terror in which Mr. Hale lived lest his son should be detected and captured, far out-weighed the pleasure he derived from his presence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I never detected a sign of the medicine bottles being tampered with, I never saw Mrs. Rubelle say a word to the Count, or the Count to her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Unless there turn out to be further complications, such as I have not at present detected--yes, said Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At this sally another special laughed, and then tried to look so supernaturally solemn, that the magistrate detected him immediately. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Mr. Wallace has also detected one such case with birds, but we have none with the larger quadrupeds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Kirchhoff and Bunsen that the eighteen-millionth part of a grain of sodium may be detected. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I was detected (though I kept my veil down) in the draper's shop at Frizinghall. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The electric or etheric waves thereby set up are detected and received by another special form of apparatus more or less distant, without any intervening wires or conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The ties that bind electricity and magnetism in twinship of relation and interaction were detected, and Faraday's work in induction gave the world at once the dynamo and the motor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Evidently she was embarrassed at having been detected in the act of staring at a lesser creature, I thought. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Was there any ingenious plot, any hide-and-seek course of action, which might be detected by a careful telescopic watch? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They can be detected by their light color and brittleness. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The wonder, indeed, is, on the theory of natural selection, that more cases of the want of absolute perfection have not been detected. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• His idea, of course, was to put this wire across the ends of the supplying circuits, and short-circuit the whole thing--put it all out of business without being detected. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In fact we reached the boat's side and were all aboard before the watch upon the battleship, aroused by the shots, detected us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Two rings adorned his white delicate hands, the value of which even my inexperienced observation detected to be all but priceless. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• His poverty was easily detected and relieved. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• From a very early age I have detected what those about me thought they hid from me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I relinquished the intention he had detected, for I knew him! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The moment we looked at one another, her quick instinct detected the thought in my mind before I could give it expression. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You detected the turn that inquiry was really taking, yesterday. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• At this time, no unpractised eyes would have detected any change in him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Some characteristic points of difference--for instance, that of the width of mouth--could hardly be detected in the young. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Could the finger prints of an ape be detected from those of a man? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• And then he was gone again into the swaying trees, following the high-flung spoor which no other human eye could have detected, much less translated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It will be seen that as early as 1875 Edison detected and studied certain phenomena--i. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• On closer examination, you detected something in his face that displeased, or rather that failed to please. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• At length I detected a ray of light struggling through a closed shutter in one of the upper rooms--it was a novel feeling, alas! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typist: Willard