Tess began to perceive that a man in indifferent health, who proposed to start on a journey before one in the morning, ought not to be at an inn at this late hour celebrating his ancient blood.
It was about the size of a wafer when she first observed it, but it speedily grew as large as the palm of her hand, and then she could perceive that it was red.
The man at the slicer, having nothing else to do with his eyes, continually observed the comer, but Tess, who was occupied, did not perceive him till her companion directed her attention to his approach.
From the information I received, your Excellency will perceive that this cannot be the case.
Man may not see these mental adulteries, he may not perceive these filthy imaginings; but One sees and notes them.
If we think of it an instant, we shall perceive a repulsion, such as is only inspired by the idea of incest.
My offence was indeed only a mistake, but one of incredible grossness, and with such consequences of offence and alarm attached to it, that my failing to perceive them justly exposed me to very severe blame.
You will perceive that we have approached the contemplation of that crisis with the caution that great reluctance has inspired.
I am unable to perceive the force of this distinction.
From these extracts the reader will readilyperceive the position of Mr. Bell upon the great political question of the day.
If the question was pressed for immediate decision, he could perceive no other mode of harmonizing conflicting sentiments, but by the adoption of the Missouri Compromise Line.
He is too wise a man not to perceive that while fidelity to party was the best ladder for him to rise to his present height, impartial neutrality will now serve his fame and ambition better.
No sooner did the chase perceive our manoeuvre, than, running in her sweeps, she hoisted a Spanish flag and fired a warning cartridge.
The pirates must have thought that we were very blind not toperceive them.
Indeed, he scarcely attempted to conceal it; but she was too pure-minded and unsuspecting to perceive the existence of the feelings she had inspired.
The Moors had been too far off to allow them to perceive us hoisting in the boats, so they could not tell but that we were all fast asleep on board.
Peake observing a stage screw lying upon the table before him, took it up and replied, "I perceive he has left his card and name behind him.
Abaddon is a name belonging to the devil, and the most ignorant will not scruple to confess that they plainly perceive its expressive etymology in A bad 'un.
The present controversy about the election to the see of Canterbury afforded Innocent an opportunity of claiming this right; and he failed not to perceive and avail himself of the advantage.
Hereby may you perceive your dreams to be in every jot conform and agreeable to the Virgilian lots.
Hereby may you perceive how much I do attribute to the wise foolery of our morosoph Triboulet.
You can hardly imagine how glad I am, when every morning I perceive myself environed and surrounded with brigades of creditors--humble, fawning, and full of their reverences.
So I perceive in them all one and the same specifical form, and the like individual properties, which our ancestors called Pantagruelism; by virtue whereof they will bear with anything that floweth from a good, free, and loyal heart.
I recommend to you the making of my epitaph; for I perceive I will die confected in the very stench of farts.
Here is the mountain of the Moon, --yonder thou mayst perceive the fenny march of Nilus.
Thou shalt have learned it sooner than thou canst perceive the dawning of the next subsequent morning.
I cannot perceivethat it would be any advantage to them to make a misstatement.
To the right we could just perceive the second division of the bridge-head: the third section was further up the stream.
I was beginning to perceive more clearly what was intended.
Watching the firing, I could notperceive that ours was doing much harm; while that of the enemy certainly was not.
She certainly had a good deal to say; and I did not need to understand Russian to perceive the temper and tone in which her speech was delivered.
Recovering from their amazement, the warriors could perceive that in the mystic words of the chant, which he still poured forth, were couched the laws and principles of the destined confederacy.
You will perceive that I have on no occasion sanctioned the baser motives of private pique, envy, revenge, and love of detraction.
Now, tell me, Sir, do you not perceive the gold to be in a dismal fear!
The consequences which he should have drawn from this just proposition were sufficiently obvious; but unhappily for himself and for Ireland he failed to perceive them.
No person who studies that remarkable document can fail to perceive that, though it is framed in a manner well calculated to reassure and delight English Protestants, it contains not a word which could give offence, even at the Vatican.
Every person capable of reasoning on a political question must perceive that a monarch who is competent to issue such a declaration is nothing less than an absolute monarch.
The reproof was so delicate that Burnet, whose perceptions were not very fine, did not perceive it.
An idea of this sort will only bear just touching; the mind then does not perceive its violence; if it be brought before the eyes too minutely, it becomes almost ridiculous.
Some defects they had in common, and as self-love is blind, Pope did not perceive that most of his comments recoiled upon himself.
And he was evermore false, not as loving or preferring falsehood, but as one who could not in his heart perceive much real difference between what people affected to call falsehood, and what they affected to call truth.
Pope did not perceive that in the attempt to improve the poetry he had introduced an inconsistency.
Any one who compares the imperial march of the metre in the Vanity of Human Wishes, with the sweet, but less majestic Deserted Village, will perceive that the swell of the heroic measure is capable of wide degrees.
Footnote 5: I cannot easily discover why it is thought necessary to refer descriptions of a rural state to the golden age, nor can I perceive that any writer has consistently preserved the Arcadian manners and sentiments.
Roscoe could perceive no impropriety in transferring classical customs and mythology to the plains of Windsor.
He fell into the error before he had discrimination to perceive the blemish, and when his judgment was more mature habit had reconciled him to the distortion.
Undiscerning persons, who judged the poet by his words, would form a different estimate, and would perceive only proofs of his excellence where Fenton saw examples of his habitual insincerity.
I turned with a start to perceive a bare head thrust above the cabin roof, the scant hair flying, and two large, brown eyes staring into mine full of alarm and reproach.
I desired that you should perceive how those engines are moved by which the fountain that refreshes the world casts its waters in the air.
In the open space, too, you might perceive various petty traders exercising the arts of their calling.
Now thou wilt perceive that I cannot touch it without thy knowledge.
Nydia did not, of course, perceive the emotion she had caused.
But Sosia did not perceive it, for it was the dusk of eve, and he was full of his own privations.
Blind as she was, Nydia had the penetration to perceive that Julia's mind was not one that the gallantries of Arbaces were likely to terrify.
I should be very indifferent to all such observations, did I not perceive that they draw upon me the eyes of Mr. Villars, which glisten with affectionate concern.
Scarcely would she perceivefrom her window his shadowy form.
Therefore is it said, not without reason: To understand is to perceive the figures of phantasy, and understanding is phantasy, or is nothing without it.
By which, with many instances more, I perceive they do live a sad life together.
I perceive by him my Lord's business of his family and estate goes very ill, and runs in debt mightily.
I perceive by Mr. Moore today that he hath been with my Lord, and my Lord how he takes it I know not, but he is looking after other security and I am mighty glad of it.
Ascue dined also, who I perceive desires to make himself known among the seamen.
King's business as I perceive he do in this business of my Lord Peterborough's accounts.
But yet I canperceive he hath good parts and good inclinations.
Here her voice failed her; but by her gestures we could perceive the continued praying, and, having before taken the child in her arms the little angel continued there for fear of disturbing her.
She now began to perceive some impropriety in her own behaviour, and endeavoured to correct it; but nothing is more difficult than to recover a dignity once lost.
Then you perceive that in their relations to their own world, the world they make and govern, they are of the stuff which holds a country together, without which a country can not exist.
He seemed toperceive all that shaken feeling in her mind to which she found it so impossible to give expression; on which his own action had placed so strong a curb.
North-east of this is a peak, the top of which appears to be the crater of a second volcano, which continually throws up smoke, though I could not perceive the smallest spark of fire.
At some distance from Tolbatchina we crossed a heath, from which I could perceivethree volcanos; none of them threw up any flames, but merely clouds of very black smoke.
We were then obliged to stop while he went on before to find the vestiges of the road; but how was it possible to find them in so extensive a plain, covered with snow, and where we could perceive neither tree, nor mountain, nor river?
It was at Bolcheretsk that I began to perceive the effects of their influence.
Though it was difficult to perceive the hares and partridges, whose whiteness equalled that of the snow, I did not fail, after a little practice, and some instructions from my companions, to bring home a tolerable number.
Kasloff observed upon this occasion, was so much the more necessary, as we began to perceive in this village some symptoms of the contagious turbulent disposition of the Koriacs.
Let him consider the objects with which I am surrounded in the immense extent of country that I travel, and he will perceive that they are almost always the same.
There is a degree of civilization at Bolcheretsk, which I did not perceive at Petropavlofska.
