Discovers

Examples

• In waste and uninclosed lands, any person who discovers a tin mine may mark out its limits to a certain extent, which is called bounding a mine. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Goodyear discovers process of Vulcanizing Rubber. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Increase me in that wisdom which discovers my truest interest: Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• One discovers it still as vigorous under the Directorate as if there had been no revolution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Laennec discovers Auscultation and invents Stethoscope. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Are you afraid Shirley will worry you if she discovers that you are hurt, and that you bleed? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Then John Jarndyce discovers that Ada and I must break off and that if I don't amend that very objectionable course, I am not fit for her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is like the dawn of the sense of responsibility in a youth, who suddenly discovers that life is neither easy nor aimless. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This answer is unsatisfactory; not because it contains any falshood, but because it discovers not all the truth. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But that reason, according to this hypothesis, discovers also vice and virtue. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Demonstrative reason discovers only relations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is obvious, and discovers itself on the very first formation of society. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• No passion of another discovers itself immediately to the mind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Ibsen discovers a soul in Nora: the discovery is absorbed into the common knowledge of the age. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Allan looks at him in perplexity, but discovers some real meaning and good faith at the bottom of this bewildering reply. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Editor: Vince