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Example sentences for "perceived that"

  • I was scarcely past my infancy, when the sultan my father (for you must know I am a prince by birth) perceived that I was endowed with good natural ability, and spared nothing proper for improving it.

  • When I perceived that my remonstrance, instead of restoring her to a sense of duty, served only to increase her anguish, I gave over and retired.

  • I took pity on him, and being so much used to sick people, perceived that he had need to have particular care taken of him.

  • I was now in the Strand, and, glancing about, I perceived that I was close by an hotel, which bore over the door the somewhat remarkable name of Holy Lands.

  • Yet the next instant I was just as full of doubt; for, even as I watched it, I perceived that it was quite still.

  • So soon as I was fully waked, I perceived that a low moon hung above the horizon, and shed a very ghostly light across the great weed world to starboard.

  • He perceived that when he came to tell his mother about this journey around the world there would be great difficulties.

  • It seemed to Benham for a moment as though Prothero had got to the bottom of the question, and then he perceived that he had only got to the bottom of himself.

  • Still he perceived that it is no excuse for a man that he has been taken by surprise.

  • And then he perceived that, very slowly, the circular top of the cylinder was rotating on its body.

  • But later I perceived that we were no longer hemmed in, that now we might get away.

  • I ran, for I perceived that in a moment everyone upon this side of the hill would be moving.

  • Occupied with these meditations, I rode many miles before I perceived that I had totally deviated from the right path.

  • At the second, I perceived that one of them was no other than Gines himself.

  • I said this laughing: I perceived that Bessie's glance, though it expressed regard, did in no shape denote admiration.

  • I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast.

  • I perceived that he had no faith in it, and to tell the truth I had not much myself.

  • By this time, I perceived that I had been wrong, not as to the poem returned, but as to my function regarding him and such as he.

  • But I perceived that he did not share my enthusiasm for the author, and I became more and more sensible that in Salem air there was a cool undercurrent of feeling about him.

  • When Boyesen told me that among the Norwegians men never kissed each other, as the Germans, and the Frenchmen, and the Italians do, I perceived that we stood upon common ground.

  • He was not angry, not irritated; I perceived that, and took heart.

  • He did not ask by whom, for with his quick eye he perceived that I held it in my hand.

  • Deep was my amazement at this discovery; and deeper still when I perceived that, instead of being desperately wretched in such a union, she was gay even to giddiness.

  • But that evening as we came into Windsor, I perceived that he had not abandoned his intentions.

  • I perceived that he was aware of what I had hoped had escaped his penetration--my mother's prepossession against him and his daughter.

  • I perceived that Mr. Montenero's was not a mere compliment--he spoke with real feeling.

  • I perceived that Fowler, wiser grown, had learned how much more secure the reign of flattery is, than the reign of terror.

  • With the inertness that grows upon an aging man he had been used to delegate more and more things, but of that thing I perceived that he would not delegate the least detail.

  • He was all eagerness, and I perceived that I had risen greatly in this most refined and cultivated gentleman's estimation.

  • Consciousness at last came, and I perceived that we were driving up a thickly planted avenue.

  • My hat was struck near the top, and, as the smoke cleared away, I perceived that my ball had taken effect upon my adversary; he was wounded a little below the knee and appeared to steady himself with the greatest difficulty.

  • While he made way for me for this purpose, I perceived that he stooped down towards the guard, and said something, who from his answer had evidently been questioned as to who I was.

  • As I thanked him for his attention, and was about to turn away, I perceived that he continued to look very steadily at me.

  • Valentine's countenance fell a little when his brother said this; he perceived that he chanced to be more free than most heirs, he had more freedom than he cared for.

  • It promised nothing, he thought; he perceived that it was the extremity she saw in the situation that had prompted it.

  • In short, as John thought the matter over, he perceived that it would be a very good thing for his father to have Valentine as an inmate, and that it would be everything to Valentine to be with his father.

  • I perceived that he must have been going to look for me at the nurse's, and had seen the carriage at Madame de St. Cymon's door.

  • I perceived that, unaided and unprotected, I should never have succeeded in reaching Bursley from Knype.

  • Then I perceived that he was merely employing one of the sacred phrases, sanctified by centuries of usage, of the private bar.

  • He perceived that in William Smith he had stumbled on a professional of the highest class, and this good fortune pleased him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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