This has nearly all left me and I remain a more or less efficient despatch-carrying animal--a part of a machine realising the hopeless, enormous size of the machine.
Then, realising that I was in far greater danger of breaking my neck than of being shot, I pulled myself together and slowed down to proceed sedately home.
A little later he was back at his post of duty again, little realising that although a man might be fortune's favourite on one day, the next might bring him dire disaster.
A few minutes later he found himself amongst a number of men, whom he couldn't help realising occupied important commands.
Realising my position in Alsace, you can understand.
Bernhardi argued most earnestly, that if a treaty placed a difficulty in the way of a great nation's realising its purposes, then it was not only justifiable, but the duty of that nation to break that treaty.
Realising that without the stick they themselves would be helpless, they say that its help is indispensable for safe running.
When all have passed by, Elizabeth, realising that she will see her beloved no more, sinks slowly down on her knees, and, raising her despairing eyes to the image of the Virgin.
Johns distinguished themselves on this occasion, for, realising what had happened, they volunteered to go out and recover the men.
Realising that one or two of the men on the opposite side of the canal to himself had been hit, he, along with Sgt.
We now had an opportunity of realising the manner in which the Hun had delivered his last expiring kicks.
Intensive training was the order of the day, and realising that we had still much to learn the work was seriously taken up.
The divisional commander, having seen our condition, and realising that very few in the brigade would be fit for fighting after two such days, ordered up the 125th brigade, who had had an opportunity of getting dry and warm.
Realising that the end could not be long delayed, Captain Spencer dragged himself to the bridge-rail and raised a megaphone to his lips.
And realising this she also realised the uncertainty of the human life in connection with any other human life.
For so she called them in her mind, realising that there were religious fanatics whose half-crazy devotion seemed to lift them above the ordinary dangers to the body.
Domini only felt that if she had ever been a slave at this moment she would have died of joy, realising the boundless freedom that circles this little earth.
I strove to conceive of all that he had done--with the view, I told myself at first, of bringing myself to a greater contentment, of realising how worthless was all that I had rejected and that he had grasped at.
I remember one day thinking of this and wondering how it had been possible for him to do so, and then suddenly realising the meaning of my thought and turning hot with shame.
She had reached the age of thirty-two without ever gratifying it, or even fully realising how much she longed to gratify it.
Pao-yü, upon realising that she was a fairy, was much elated; and with eagerness advanced and made a bow.
Pao-yü was in the act of rubbing it for him, with the overlap of his coat, but realising that the whole lot of them had been hushed up, he forthwith bade Li Kuei collect his books.
His remarks had reached this clause, when inadvertently the tears trickled down; and Hsi Jen realising the state of mind he was in, did not venture to say anything further.
Lucretius, while realising the full pathos and solemnity of the thought of death, preaches submission to the inexorable decree of Nature with a stern consistency and a proud fortitude combating the suggestions of human weakness.
Commarin, not realising how the time had passed, hastened to the window, in the hope of seeing Noel in the court-yard, and calling him back.
He was dazzled by the count's words, and had need of all his reason to struggle against the giddiness which came over him, on realising his great good fortune.
But a young Italian recruit, in the trenches for the first time, quivering with excitement and eagerness to distinguish himself, not realising the man's motive, fired at him through a peephole.
At last he bestirred himself, realising that he had yet far to go.
He had a strong belief, which grew in intensity with age, that the only chance of realising one's true life was to do something that interested one with all one's might.
For the second, the great need is ofRealising Imagination.
Hugh had taken it for granted that he would be the same wherever he was, never realising that his present life was especially distasteful to him, and yet that he accepted it without gainsaying.
He had ever a kindly word for Hugh, though not realising how the boy clung to him as to a link with that past which already seemed so far away and so happy.
But the monkey was so cowed that he only clung closely, turning his head piteously from side to side, and realising that something terrible was about to happen.
True, we would sometimes lapse into restaurant and home-dinner talks, but we fought against it as much as possible, realising that to permit our thoughts to dwell on good things to eat accentuated our distress.
He was a deeply religious nature, and, realising that he was doomed, he awaited the slow approach of death with calm resignation.
She seemed to have a difficulty in realising that anyone could know anything.
Then, at last, the Pope, realising how much he needed the friendship of the Gonzagas, sent the Marchesa Ercole's red hat.
But our fears having somewhat abated, we made no report of the alarm upon our arrival, realising that we had cut no great figure in the adventure.
If you ever come to Palliano we will greet you with a still more brilliant illumination," she promised, little realising how well she would keep that pledge.
The authority of the Empire was much diminished in Italy; the temporal strength of the Papacy was also on the wane, and the Communes, realising their greater independence, hastened to enlarge their respective territories.
On realising this he went back to Germany, leaving Arezzo a prey to conflicts, in which the Ghibellines won the victory, with the help of numerous Florentine exiles.
And, realising that those old shipmates of his would give him away for a bribe, he had come to Gabrielle with the intention of taking her farther along the coast.
For a moment the young apprentice lingered beneath the palms, then realising that he had the whole afternoon before him, he turned away and went down to the beach.
Realising the futility of attempting to reach them, the creature sank back into a corner, gathering itself together, and working its features in wild convulsions.
The man suffered agonies as he sat there, realising his shattered hopes--the fair and priceless structure of his life's happiness levelled to the earth like a house of cards.
The relation is, however, manifested in a different way: it is not an apprehension of the manifold of impression into the unity of consciousness, but the externalisation of self-consciousness in realising a conceived end or idea.
In the latter it is the realising energy of the self-conscious subject.
The purpose of which (according to Butler) man is the vehicle or realising organism is spoken of as a law externally imposed, and deriving its authority, not from its own nature, but from the nature of its origin.
Sidenote: as self-realisation,] An end can only be made our own when conceived as necessary for realising or completing our idea of self.
Outside the circle of hedonistically-determined motives, he recognises the influence of the presentation or idea as a self-realising element in the individual consciousness, apart from its pleasurable or painful characteristics.
We now know that on these points the traditional doctrine is wrong, but respect for Aristotle prevented Leibniz from realising that this was possible.
The whole difficulty of the subject lies in the necessity of thinking in an unfamiliar way, and in realising that many properties which we have thought inherent in number are in fact peculiar to finite numbers.
The trouble is not that the materials are old, but that he lacks the faculty for realisingthem and thereby making of them something new.
Similarly, on the largest scale, we go through life realising only a very little part of all that is presented to our minds.
To recognise and interpret the symbols presented to him requires a part of this power; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part; and only that part which remains can be used for realising the thought conveyed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "realising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
