From their position the two damsels could discern all that subsequently took place.
We can discern that one of you is a Highlander, and we believe you are all rebels and traitors.
Both this damsel and her fair companion were so muffled up that Atherton could not discern their features, but he persuaded himself they must be good-looking.
Only by seeking the law that regulates and dominates these changes is it possible to discern the general idea of the Republic and determine the value of its institutions.
It is enough to read the records and glance at the laws of the Republic in order to discern that in the closing years of the fourteenth century a new spirit was stirring the people and a new sun, as it were, rising in the sky.
In a word, we clearly discern the inchoation of the modern commercial code with which these enactments are frequently in unison.
Then in the wildest chaos we seem rapidly able to discern a mathematical succession and connection of causes and effects.
Evidently part of this account is legendary, and we also discern that something must have been added to it afterwards, when Pisa and Florence were separated by long and inextinguishable animosity.
But between the lines of Io's letters, full of womanly pity for Camilla Van Arsdale, of resentment for her thwarted and hopeless longing, Banneker thought to discern a crystallizing resolution.
It has required no searching analysis to discern the man, nor trace the influences of his education.
At her words the old man leaned forward, straining his dim eyes to discern the distant figures on the far-off hill.
There was no moon, and only the keenest eye could discern any distant object in the darkness.
This also is a position of which, in our intercourse with our fellow-creatures, we clearly discern the justice, and universally admit the force.
Are we acute to discern and forward to embrace any fair opportunity of promoting the interests of another; if it be in a line wherein we ourselves also are moving, and in which we think our progress has not been proportioned to our desert?
To discern its fallaciousness, requires not acuteness of understanding, so much as a little common honesty.
Our information is not yet sufficiently complete to enable us to write the history of any one of them, but we can discern in outline a most fascinating course of events.
At this period it was impossible to discern more than that there had been a widely scattered Hittite civilization, which might have been an empire.
The seer by his oracle did not discern the future; Nor did the enchanter with a libation illuminate my case; I consulted the necromancer, but he opened not my understanding.
One further cardinal trait, which is in a sense a result of the preceding traits, has to be named--the ability to discern inconspicuous analogies.
The latter had entrenched themselves, and now in the darkness it was difficult for our men todiscern their exact position.
Scarcely had the bright streaks shone out and disappeared when they were followed by a terrific cannonade from the forts, and then, for the first time, those standing on the Victoria Pier could discern the enemy's ships.
Military critics, examining this great battle with fair and candid eyes, will not fail, we think, to discern the truth.
It was impossible to discernin General Lee any evidences of impaired strength, or any trace of the wearing hardships through which he had passed.
It may be many months before we shall be able to discern where there is a practicable breach; but the assault will come in due time.
I discern in the present industrial system of our country three vicious conditions which make us peculiarly susceptible to any outside disturbance of international trade.
I have specimens of the three sorts now lying before me, and can discern that there are three gradations of sizes, and that the least has black legs, and the other two flesh-coloured ones.
I begin to suspect that I discernmy brother's hirundo hyberna in Scopoli's new discovered hirundo rupestris, p.
It is easy to discern that Brougham honestly believed in his own superiority to the young rival who outshone him, and yet that he was inwardly tormented.
Under the ingenious one-sidedness and apparent good faith of the writer, it was not difficult to discern an inspiration derived from Claremont or the Hotel Sotomayor.
Ned looked curiously at the faces of those whom they had saved, but the night had not lightened, and he could discern nothing.
He could not see faces, he could not even discern a clear outline of the figures, but he had no doubt that these were Urrea's Mexicans.
It was growing dusk, and when he failed to discern what he was looking for, he turned on the electric lights and tried again.
But there are better things in the blood of the pioneers than a latter-day descendant of the continent-conquering fathers may be able to discern in the moment of defeat and disaster.
Oh, that Providence would open their eyes, and enable them to discern good from evil!
The place of execution was a high hill, on the outskirts of Salem; so that many of the sufferers, as they stood beneath the gallows, could discern their own habitations in the town.
If with attentive minds we mark the origin of classes, we shall discern that the Nice Feelings and the Fine Shades play a principal part in our human development and social history.
A musing touch of her harp-strings drew the intruders to the charmed circle, though they could discern nothing save the glimmer of the instrument and one set of fingers caressing it.
He should understand something as to the nature of his senses, and the extent to which these capacities enable him to discern the operations of Nature.
Beyond Saturn the two planets Uranus and Neptune, which occupy the outer part of the solar system, are so remote that even our best telescopes discern little more than their presence, and the fact that they have attendant moons.
In the fortnight of darkness, even with the naked eye, it would probably be possible to discern at any time several eruptions, some of which would indicate that the earth's surface was ravaged by great catastrophes.
If an observer could stand on the sea floor at the depth of a mile below a point over which the greatest waves were rolling, he could not with his unaided senses discern that the water was troubled.
They could discernno more than can be seen by any one who looks at the great sphere through a bit of smoked glass, as we know this reveals a disklike body of very uniform appearance.
An ascension thus made beyond the cloud disk which the eruption produces might bring the observer where he could discern enough to determine the matter.
With the naked eye we see on the moon a considerable variation in the light of different parts of its surface; we discern that the darker patches appear to be rudely circular, and that they run together on their margins.
It also enables us to discern differences of temperature.
But the Man of Letters is sent hither specially that he may discern for himself, and make manifest to us, this same Divine Idea: in every new generation it will manifest itself in a new dialect; and he is there for the purpose of doing that.
First recognize what is true, we shall then discern what is false; and properly never till then.
He that can discern the loveliness of things, we call him Poet!
All earnest souls will ever discern in it the faithful struggle of an earnest human soul towards what is good and best.
With the free open sense of a child, yet with the ripe faculty of a man, his whole heart would be kindled by that sight, he would discern it well to be Godlike, his soul would fall down in worship before it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
