We retired to a small lodging; none of our friends thought proper to follow us to our retreat; and now, bereaved as we were of our natural protector, we could not help perceiving that we were a friendless and helpless pair.
On perceiving a bee sucking the juice from flowers, he hurries to the nearest pool and selects a spot where the banks shelve gradually.
It is easy to conceive a number of perceiving minds upon the one hand, ready to take up perceptions of an outside material substance upon the other.
The former drew a distinction between theperceiving mind and matter, and based its reasonings on the assumed modification of our minds brought about by matter regarded as self-existent, i.
These impressions are transmitted to the sentient principle, or mind; and the faculty we possess ofperceiving these impressions has been called by physiologists, sensibility.
The others have been thought to be compounded of these; for the sense of taste, as well as sight and hearing, is capable of perceiving compound impressions.
This is proved by our not perceiving the motions of cannon and musket balls, and many other kinds of motion.
With a farewell smile she sought the complement of her consolation in the eyes of the American visitor, and perceiving in them a certain mysterious brilliancy, it is not improbable that she may have flattered herself she had found it.
The epithet was not romantic, but Mrs. Tristram had no difficulty in perceiving that, in essentials, the feeling which lay beneath it was.
She evidently wished to say something, and Newman, perceiving it, helped her to begin.
A few moments after this the doctor put his head through the half-opened door and, perceiving that Valentin was awake, came in and felt his pulse.
He opened the door and entered, perceiving nothing at first but a dense cloud of tobacco smoke.
Perceiving that I did not appreciate his manner, he explained.
The big man, doubtlessperceiving that the position was becoming desperate, took the key out of his pocket.
Upon perceiving this Sand begged the governor of the prison to call upon him by name should he manifest any sign of weakness.
On another occasion she had taken a lad of nineteen, Johann Kraus, into the cellar, where she had offered him a glass of brandy which he tasted, but perceiving a white sediment in it, declined to swallow.
The Chinese perceiving that violence would only involve disagreeable results, had recourse to cajolery, but to no purpose.
Upon perceiving us, he immediately enveloped himself in his scarf, and entered his cell.
We could not long endure the pressure, and the Kitat-Lama, perceiving the oppression under which we laboured, invited us to return home.
He picked it up, and perceiving something written in pencil, gave it to the man to read.
On perceiving a young rose-bud of a girl, instead of the gaunt presence of the old maid, a look of surprise was manifest.
I made a leap at a garden gate, which I cleared; then running forward, and perceiving a back door in a house standing open, I rushed in, scarce knowing what I did.
With these words, he tore the mantle from Wood's back, and, perceiving the child, endeavoured to seize it.
What was his transport on perceiving that a few yards above him a light was burning.
The next minute, I contrived, without either of 'em perceiving me, to convey it into my own pocket.
When Jack was brought in, he cast a rapid glance around him, and perceiving Thames in the custody of Jonathan, instantly divined how matters stood.
Perceiving that Johnson was approaching lake George, and being informed that the provincials were without artillery, he determined to postpone his designs upon Oswego, and to attack them in their camp.
He was received with unexpected firmness; and, perceiving that his utmost efforts could make no impression, he called off his army, and retired into the city.
The commissioners of the united colonies, perceiving the necessity of accommodating internal differences, now took a decided part in favour of the proposed incorporation.
The first party, perceiving its numerical weakness, joined the third; and the whole province was divided between a public and private bank.
These troops landed at Moreton's point; but, perceivingthat the Americans waited for them with firmness, they remained on their ground until the arrival of a reinforcement from Boston, for which general Howe had applied.
No Melanesian can understand why he is to sit spelling away at a black board; and he is not like a child of four or five years old, he must be taught through his power of reasoning, and perceiving the meaning of things.
I have spared no expense, and have taken no little delight in perceiving her progress; while, at present, I am equally surprised to see her thus negligent.
Kitty, perceiving there was a mystery she was not to inquire into, returned to Orchard Street, really glad to know that her mistress was safe, but disappointed nevertheless at being told that she was not to be frightened.
He uttered these words aloud, withoutperceiving that he was speaking aloud.
On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire.
Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard.
He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and not understanding why, he began to laugh himself.
Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing Marius, withdrew.
He set out at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths presented themselves to him, without perceivingthat he was incessantly retracing his steps.
Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it.
The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand.
As he went on eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air of perceiving nothing and allowing it.
The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had fallen without perceiving it.
She, perceiving the uncomfortable position of Maria, who sat shivering with cold, with her hands crossed upon her bosom, without stopping to remove her gloves, placed the linen upon the shoulders of the dauphiness.
Perceiving instantly that it would be difficult to strike this nimble and almost submerged adversary, the commander of the Scarabaeus thought it well to let it alone for the present, and to bear down with all speed upon the repeller.
Rose, on the other hand, was delighted and excited; the more so that she could not help perceiving that she herself amid all these objects of beauty was followed by the admiring glances of many eyes.
He could not help perceiving that Lillie's five hundred particular friends were mostly of the other sex, and wondering whether he alone, when the matter should be reduced to that, could make up to her for all her retinue of slaves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perceiving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
