Perceive

Examples

• I perceive you shiver. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You perceive several places where it has passed across and obliterated the more shallow mark of the front one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I perceive, sir, said Pitt with a heightened voice, that your people will cut down the timber. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• All the other furniture is plain and serviceable, you perceive. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Nor do I perceive how I can easily be mistaken in this matter. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• They would say that, at any rate, if they did not perceive the drift of the question. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Miss Lucas perceived him from an upper window as he walked towards the house, and instantly set out to meet him accidentally in the lane. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But when it is perceived that each idea signifies the quality of mind expressed in action, the supposed opposition between them falls away. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was Lincoln Steffens, I believe, who first perceived that fact. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Don't let us speak of it: I was very sorry for you, she said, with a tinge of disdain which, as she instantly perceived, was not lost on him. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Here he was taken off his legs, and in swimming was carried round into the centre of the basin, where he perceived Wildeve struggling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In another moment the strong pride that was in her came to conquer her sudden agitation, which she hoped he had not perceived. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Their opinions clashed; and indeed, she had never perceived that he had cared for her opinions, as belonging to her, the individual. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If any thing could increase her delight, it was perceiving that the baby would soon have outgrown its first set of caps. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Leaning back in his chair he could watch Caroline without her perceiving where his gaze was fixed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Perceiving a light in the front room, he advanced into the passage and again knocked, but without reply. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Fred Lamb was waiting at the door, and his joy, on perceiving my carriage, overcame all his late vexation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Perceiving of what great utility such an instrument would prove in naval and military operations, and seeing that His Serenity the Doge desired to possess it, I resolved on the 24th inst. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Brute-like, he saw without perceiving; and, stumbling forward, poured out a tumbler of brandy, and drank half of it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Miss Crawford, untouched and inattentive, had nothing to say; and Fanny, perceiving it, brought back her own mind to what she thought must interest. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Resolved, as your discriminating good sense perceives, that if you was to have a sap--pur--IZE, it should be a complete one! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And if the world perceives that what we are saying about him is the truth, will they be angry with philosophy? Plato. The Republic.
• She perceives that it is justified. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Fortunately his elder sister perceives the cause of the agitation in Mrs. Bagnet's breast and with an admonitory poke recalls him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Where-ever the imagination perceives a difference among ideas, it can easily produce a separation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Skimpole perceives them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He perceives all of it that interests him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Lenore