The former may be moved by a single impulse--by a love of novelty, or a desire of gain, or a hope of preferment: he leaves no perceptible void in society.
Phrenologists assert that each organ of a mental faculty occupies a certain position perceptible on the outside of the brain, with a definite area which they have mapped out.
It made no sound; it had no perceptible odor; and yet, every time the boys went into the barn they were reminded of it.
And then he came to his senses with a perceptible bump.
There were faint shadows under her eyes, which were like grey velvet, and her hair, parted softly in golden wings over her forehead, showed several barely perceptible creases between her eyebrows.
She paused an instant, adjusted a loosened pin in her lace veil, and glided on smoothly again without a perceptible change in her voice, "Poor, dear Angelica!
A series of various oracles of denunciation, which have no further logical connection than is supplied by a general sameness of subject, and a perceptible increase of detail and articulateness from beginning to end of the section.
As he stepped down from the doorway there was a perceptible flutter among the spectators.
A few lawyers, with their witnesses, whose cases had gone over until the morrow, struggled out through the crush at the door, with no perceptible diminution in the throng within.
Gerald Tatham, a very perceptible sneer in his disagreeable voice.
The faintest perceptible flicker of mischief crossed her haggard face.
Her little tinkling, giggling laugh rang out with startling incongruity through the formal room, and her uncle glanced at her and frowned with the slightest perceptible flicker of irritation.
The doctor said there was noperceptible increase of strength, while the pulse, if anything, was weaker.
Day by day he gathered strength, though scarcely perceptible at times.
Lakes and most seas are too small to have perceptible tides.
But the peculiar structure in question, though very obvious in several of these psalms, is scarcely perceptible in others, and is entirely absent from Psalm cxxxii.
Intermarriage poured a large infusion of alien blood into Israel; and the Canaanitish strain is perceptible to-day in the fellahin of the Holy Land.
We see them at work in the coarser media, perceptible to our material senses, in the seance room.
She was speaking in trance upon the future of spiritual religion, and she said: "In the next century this will be astonishingly perceptible to the minds of men.
Here in New York he could not have truthfully said that all was vanity, for even a more ill-natured satirist than he must have confessed that there was in this new temple to-day a perceptible interest in religion.
Strong drew himself together with a perceptible effort: "I think about it as little as possible," said he.
Perhaps the hardest trial of all was the perceptible loss of her sister's blind admiration for all she said.
As the beaters or fan blades of the revolving scouring cylinders are chilled cast-iron, they will last for years without perceptible wear, and when the steel case is worn out by severe friction of the grain, can be replaced at a small expense.
Our mill has stood the test of near three years constant and hard labor, with no perceptible wear.
Again, when a satellite passes into the great shadow cast by the planet it becomes entirely invisible, which would not be the case did the planet emit any perceptible light of its own.
No perceptible diminution of solar heat having taken place within historic experience, so far as can be ascertained, we are driven to seek some more abstruse explanation.
When you come to cook the steak do not wipe the oil and vinegar off; simply let what will run off, and then lay the meat on the gridiron and broil it, or fry it; there will be no taste perceptible if the oil is good.
At this point Miss Corson announced that the cabbage was done, after being in between nine and ten minutes, and no smell was perceptible in the room.
In the forehead slight differences are often perceptible between the males and females, evidently caused by the presence of the comb.
Sir Walter Elliot, after describing the differences between wild Indian and wild German boars, remarks that "the same differences are perceptible in the domesticated individuals of the two countries.
But there is not the least perceptiblechange in the corresponding species now inhabiting Egypt and the desert.
But it happened that the ladies were rather late at their morning toilet, and to my father's politely-repressed but perceptible annoyance, we were not in the carriage till the morning was far advanced.
Wrede certainly goes too far in asserting that even in Mark's version the experience at the baptism is conceived as an open miracle, perceptible to others.
Strauss shows that the Johannine representation of the life of Jesus is dominated by a theory, and that its portraiture shows the further development of the tendencies which are perceptible even in the Synoptists.
In women, nervous prostration often develops without perceptible cause at the age of puberty or at the "change of life.
In many cases, the contracted and narrowed condition of the canal of the cervix seems to be a congenital deformity, for we can trace it to no perceptible cause.
In the latter case, and when only occurring at long intervals, the emissions are not followed by any perceptible enervating or weakening effects.
On examination of the urine, albumen in very perceptible quantities was found to be present.
True, there is no structural division between the parts of the cerebrum to indicate this diversity of function, nor is there any perceptible limit between the sensory and motor filaments of the game nerve.
Hence the effective process of decision includes both the mental action of judgment and its perceptible indication.
You can make another person conscious of your thoughts only by some perceptible physical manifestation of the idea you wish to convey to him.
Alain thought of Raoul and Enguerrand, and blushed to find that what he considered a blot on his countrymen was so familiarly perceptible to a foreigner's eye.
