Discerned

Examples

• All that I have looked upon, with my half-blind and sinful eyes, Thou hast discerned clearly, brightly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• On approaching nearer, Bella discerned that the refection had the appearance of a small cottage-loaf and a pennyworth of milk. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Trees gigantic and aged grew near; before the gate I discerned a crowd of moving human figures--with intense curiosity I lifted my glass to my eye. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And Wat Tyrrel's mark, at a hundred yards, said a voice from behind, but by whom uttered could not be discerned. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The tramp of horses, distinctly heard in the silence, was at length discerned. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The art of rowing can first be discerned upon the Nile. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By degrees they discerned coming towards them a pair of human figures, apparently of the male sex. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He stretched out to me his other hand; I discerned the trace of manacles on his bared wrist. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• About the same time the look-out on the Arrow must have discerned it, for in a few minutes Tarzan saw the sails being shifted and shortened. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Nothing but the froth of the waves could be discerned in the pool below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• No human step was heard, nor human form discerned. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The dark mass of the church-tower was the first object I discerned dimly against the night sky. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I discerned he was now neither angry nor shocked at my audacity. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• No sign of a habitation could be discerned from the point at which I was standing--the burial-ground was left in the lonely possession of the dead. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Nevertheless, in the Seraphic creature with the haymaking rake, were clearly to be discerned the rudiments of the Patriarch with the list shoes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Julia _did_ suffer, however, though Mrs. Grant discerned it not, and though it escaped the notice of many of her own family likewise. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• They had no more notion of its true nature than a color-blind man, who has not discerned his defect, has of the nature of color. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He discerned the young girl's form in the passage, and said, Thomasin, then, has reached home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Dorothea waited a little; she had discerned a faint pleasure stealing over Rosamond's face. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Edited by Clifford