The Germans have given to a species of wild Radish bearing blue flowers the name of Hederich, and they have an old superstition that whoever wears a crown composed of Hederich is enabled to detect witches.
The old lady, however, declared her belief that the young one was guilty, and expressed her conviction that she should be able to detect her at some future time.
They could detect in the sand numerous footmarks of the jackal and the fox, and here and there a solitary antelope.
If danger lay there I could not espy it nordetect its presence.
The sharpest eye now could not detect boats in the darkness; the sharpest ear could not distinguish the muffled splash of oars.
There are several features of the illustration which we detect as erroneous, and among the rest we might mention, casually, that the incident illustrated never occurred here at all.
It is so life-like, that it seems as though I could almost detecthis maroon-colored breath.
There is no existing method which enables us to detect and measure such infinitesimal movements and their time-relations.
It does not merely detect growth but automatically records the rate of growth and its slightest fluctuation.
Demonstration Crescograph it is possible to detectthe growth of a plant for a period shorter than a hundredth part of a second.
It is also possible to detectthe growth of a plant for a period shorter than a hundredth part of a second.
At length he stopped and spoke; nor could my sharpened ear now detect anything unusual in his voice.
But the crowded figures intercepted all view; neither there nor anywhere else could I detect any sign of the girl or child.
She sang with neatness, agility and precision, coulddetect the least false intonation of instrument or voice, and was attractive in appearance.
So in the most melancholy strains of his music one who heeds well may detect the presence of a lofty ideal that uplifts and strengthens the travailing soul.
In the honey which he presents to us--and a delicious compound it is--we can always detect the flavour of the parent flowers.
If he entertain but mercenary views, I shall soon detect them.
If you look attentively round the court, you will see, too, that many of the windows are open, and you may detect faces half concealed among the window curtains.
The law of association, depend upon it," said Owen, "even if the connecting links were so subtle and swiftly moved that you failed to detect their presence.
And he would illustrate to me again, for the twentieth time that morning, how it should be pronounced; the sad thing being that I could never for the life of me detect any difference between the way he said it and the way I said it.
Careful scrutiny has failed to detect any important error in the statements of the former, or in those of the latter, where he professedly speaks from personal knowledge.
Hereby the casks are sought to be kept damply tight; while by the changed character of the withdrawn water, the mariners readily detect any serious leakage in the precious cargo.
To-day we are attempting to detect these sources of waste in technique.
They fix their thought steadily on the statement that is made, acknowledge its force, or detect its insufficiency.
When the heart takes the lead, it is not difficult to detect it.
It was easy, with his knowledge of human nature, to detect her selfishness and worldly-mindedness; for as these were faults she was unconscious of possessing, so she was unguarded in her exposure of them.
Then she dressed herself and drove down to Regis in the carriage, clutching the dispatch in her hand, and drawing back from view whenever she passed a wayfarer, trembling lest her enemy should detect her in this move against his safety.
The next time I detect anything like this, by all the gods, I'll shoot you down!
Very well, to gratify you, I will try to detect him; but my cousin--will you take that duty off my hands?
And yet, he found it impossible to detect any inconsistency in his own conduct.
You look anxious and weary," he said in a tone of sympathy in which Unorna could not detect the least false modulation, though she fancied from his fixed gaze that he meant her to understand something which he could not say.
I then placed my hands over hers to enable me to detect any conscious or unconscious movement on her part.
It is impossible to detect the fraud when the light in the room is a trifle obscure.
It does not require a professional expert in chirography to detect this fact.
Zola some five or six years before that time, and in this one can already detect the germ of the present work; just as the motif of another of M.
It had taken him over two months to detect Lisa's latent hostility; and even now he was sometimes inclined to think that he must be mistaken, and that she was in reality kindly disposed towards him.
He tossed his hair off his forehead, and, keeping his face averted from our gaze lest we should detect any moisture about the eyes, opened a desk, and selected the books he would require.
Did I reallydetect an echo of disappointment in her deep, contralto voice?
At such times I could detect the faint reek of alcohol coming through his pores.
As a last resort, however, we resolved to go over the whole ground, and endeavor to detect the spot, by discovering if the earth had been recently removed.
Let us dismount, and shade the animals as well as possible," I advised, "and then trust to the sagacity of the dog to detect an ambush.
Jackson appeared delighted with the introduction; although I thought that I could detect a slight look of disgust upon his face when we extended our soiled hands and shook his white palm.
