Divined

Examples

• Sounds that he was not afraid of, for he divined their meaning, then began to be audible. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• His mother drew near, and looked so earnestly into his eyes, that he at once divined that something unusual was the matter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The distant light which Eustacia had cursorily observed in leaving the house came, as she had divined, from the cottage window of Susan Nunsuch. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Emma divined what every body present must be thinking. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I divined that my coming had stopped conversation in the room, and that its other occupants were looking at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I divined that he would be long away. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I think I have divined the reason for this state of things at last. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We are at present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She said nothing, but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my hand and had seen what was behind me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Uncle, after not looking at it a little while, divined its object, and muttering 'Dinner? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I should be sorry to imply that Mr. Skimpole divined this and was politic; I really never understood him well enough to know. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The consciousness of his half-divined reluctance had vanished. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Finding at daylight that Wright had left his front, Lee evidently divined that he had gone to our left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He had the artist 's feeling for the beauty and harmony, which he divined before he demonstrated, in the number relations of the planetary movements. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Through the boughs of the long avenue beyond the gardens she caught the flash of wheels, and divined that more visitors were approaching. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She peeped in as she passed, and divined from the emptiness of his table, and the general appearance of things, that he was already gone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Lydgate divined some delicacy of feeling here, but did not half understand it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I divined her motive for this proceeding, viz. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• HE had not divined who was in the carriage when it drove up. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Their simple history was easily divined. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If he divined what was in her thoughts, his own were not in tune with it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Checker: Phelps