Use perceive in a sentence
Sentences starting with perceive
- Perceive it? [5]
Sentences ending with perceive
- Perhaps you will think better of it, and will learn to perceive. [10]
- Every now and then that calm, good-natured madman would bend a majestic look over his shoulder at us and say, "Ah, you perceive? [5]
- The prospect of Republican success now appears very flattering, so far as I can perceive. [7]
- Her star being in the ascendant, as we may perceive. [9]
- But the distinction between the cause of the President in beginning the war, and the cause of the country after it was begun, is a distinction which you cannot perceive. [7]
- It has worked at least as well as your own methods, you perceive. [5]
- The student is a green hand, as you will perceive. [3]
- Do you perceive? [5]
Short sentences using perceive
- You perceive his limitations. [5]
- I perceive that I'm indispensable. [8]
Sentences containing perceive two or more times
- History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it. [5]
- When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it. [5]
More example sentences with the word perceive in them
- By and by you sober down, and then you perceive that you have been drunk on the smell of somebody else's cork. [5]
- But her answer would assuredly have been "no," if she had had the smallest feeling of liking for the Emperor's favorite; but she bore the image of another in her heart, and did not even perceive that Antinous was beautiful. [10]
- Hodder read every word of these, and all were in the same strain: at last they could perceive a meaning to religion, an application of it to such plodding lives as theirs . [9]
- She felt--she knew--that with her husband a portion of her own being had been riven from her, but she could not yet perceive that this last portion was nothing less than the very foundations of her whole moral and social being. [10]
- Any person who will reflect that money is only valuable while in circulation will readily perceive that any device which will keep the government revenues in constant circulation, instead of being locked up in idleness, is no inconsiderable advantage. [7]
- But the reader will perceive by the above extract, that in Humboldt from one fourth to nearly half the mass was silver! [5]
- You readily perceive why this information is desired. [7]
- I now perceive why all men are the deadly and uncompromising enemies of the rattlesnake: it is merely because the rattlesnake has not speech. [5]
- If a naturalist, who had never before seen a Negro, Hottentot, Australian, or Mongolian, were to compare them, he would at once perceive that they differed in a multitude of characters, some of slight and some of considerable importance. [1]
- But Mr. Cuthbert, who did not appear to perceive the humour in this conversation, extracted some keys and several pasteboard slips from a rack in the corner. [9]
- By these tokens we may perceive that this faculty of our heroine's has been at work, and her canvas already sketched in. [9]
- Just as I was losing sight of the skirt of trees at Grand Pre, a gentleman in the dress of a rural clergyman left his seat, and complimented me with this remark: "I perceive, sir, that you are fond of reading. [4]
- And so I was led to perceive that I was not to be the only aggressor in the struggle that was to come. [9]
- She caught herself up with a start after one of these silences to realize that Mr. Grainger was making unwonted and indeed pathetic exertions to entertain her, and it needed no feminine eye to perceive that he was thoroughly uncomfortable. [9]
- He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. [5]
- Reassured by the unsteadiness of his voice she raised her eyes to perceive that his face was ashy, his manner nervous, apprehensive, conciliatory,--a Ditmar she had difficulty in recognizing. [9]
- The infantry ranged under the colonnades at the sides were evidently startled at the sight of these ladders, and Gorgo could perceive by the trembling of the curtain near which she and Apuleius were standing, how deeply the physician was agitated. [10]
- Any one who tries to catch one of the shore-crabs, so common on tropical coasts, will perceive how wary and alert they are. [1]
- How was she to tell him the episode in the automobile in order that he might perceive something of its sinister significance? [9]
- Religion, he began to perceive, was an undertaking, are attempt to find unity and harmony of the soul by adopting, after mature thought, a definite principle in life. [9]
- But I'm beginning to perceive that you have limitations. [9]
- Still nobody seemed to perceive that the prince had done a thing unusual. [5]
- We were beginning to perceive that charity did not consist in dispensing largesse after making a fortune at the expense of one's fellow-men; that there was something still wrong in a government that permits it. [9]
- It is easy to perceive that Cambyses, once lord of Egypt, will stretch out his rapacious hand over your beautiful Hellas and its islands. [10]
- They soon began to perceive depths in her that they had not suspected; and then her manifest sincerity and the rocklike steadfastness of her convictions were forces which cowed levity, and it could not maintain its self-respect in their presence. [5]
- It was easy to perceive by his whole extremely striking appearance that he was rightly numbered among the Emperor's shrewdest councillors. [10]
- I am unable to perceive an insult to Ohio in the case of Mr. Vallandigham. [7]
- We need only to grow old to perceive that life has a head with many faces. [10]
- Mr. Crewe was to big a man not to perceive and appreciate the sterling philanthropy which lay beneath the exteriors of his new friends, who scorned to flatter him. [9]
- When Beaton came to ask himself this question, he could only perceive that he and Dryfoos had failed to find any ground of sympathy, and had parted in the same dislike with which they had met. [8]
- Whenever I perceive this sign on this man's dial, I comprehend it, and lapse into silence, and give him opportunity to unload his heart. [5]
- He will perceive this in time. [5]
- You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks--in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. [5]
- Men perceive, and their brain-machines automatically combine the things perceived. [5]
- There he grasped the young man's hand, and said in a low voice full of sincere and fatherly interest: "Beware of the Negro; you let him perceive that you saw through him--it was brave but rash. [10]
- And here is the song of an old poet whom Neaera cheated.-- Don't you perceive the sonorousness of these old dead Latin phrases? [6]
- You perceive that the question of who or what the Me is, is not a simple one at all. [5]
- You perceive that the poor little young idea has taken a shot at a good many kinds of game in the course of the book. [5]
- But when, like the noble Virgil, I perceive that 'Nowhere is there aught to trust-nowhere,'--[Virg. [10]
- Intended or no, the effect of my religious training was to make me ashamed of discussing spiritual matters, and naturally I failed to perceive that this was because it laid its emphasis on personal salvation.... [9]
- The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. [7]
- I may add that, while I do not perceive how such committal could facilitate our military operations in Louisiana, I really apprehend it might be so used as to embarrass them. [7]
- They would say that, at any rate, if they did not perceive the drift of the question. [5]
- Men readily perceive that they can not be much oppressed by a debt which they owe to themselves. [7]
- You will perceive that there was hope for Stephen. [9]
- You perceive now, that the facts in this case bring us to precisely this result: morally the American tramp is rightful earl of Rossmore; legally he has no more right than his dog. [5]
- Yet I trust that in view of the great responsibility resting upon me you will perceive no want of respect to yourselves in any undue earnestness I may seem to display. [7]
- Charles angrily exclaimed that he knew what such illness meant, and his under lip protruded so far that it was easy to perceive how deeply this fresh proof of Barbara's defiance and vanity incensed him. [10]
- This is royalty, --stately and cold perhaps: even the mouth may be a little cruel, I begin to perceive, as I think of her; but she wears the purple by divine right. [4]
- Ledscha was still standing by the doorpost of the cella with uplifted hand, so deeply absorbed in fervent prayer that she did not perceive the approach of the messenger until he called her. [10]
- As a transfigured spirit, he would perceive how she had once hated him; but he should also see how tenderly she still loved him. [10]
- Virginia was not so thoughtless nor so selfish that she could not perceive that a trouble had come to this good man. [9]
- My volume of sketches is doing very well, considering the times; received my quarterly statement today from Bliss, by which I perceive that 20,000 copies have been sold--or rather, 20,000 had been sold 3 weeks ago; a lot more, by this time, no doubt. [5]
- Their first essays shew hardly a rudiment of the future song; but as they grow older we can perceive what they are aiming at; and at last they are said "to sing their song round. [1]
- So intent had she been on what she had meant to tell him that she did not until now perceive he was preoccupied, and only half listening to what she was saying. [9]
- You doubtless will see it; and I hope that you will perceive in it that I am already improving. [7]
- He denounced the seditious doings in Annapolis and Boston Town with an air of easy familiarity, for Philip had the memory of a parrot, and 'twas easy to perceive whence his knowledge sprang. [9]
- Whether you shall remain at the head of the Treasury Department is a question which I will not allow myself to consider from any standpoint other than my judgment of the public service, and, in that view, I do not perceive occasion for a change. [7]
- Had the two quarreled at the ball the night before, and did Cordula now perceive an opportunity to punish the younger sister by the humiliation of the older one? [10]
- Honora, in the prey of emotions which he had aroused in spite of her, needless to say did not, at that moment, perceive the humour in it. [9]
- His news of Philip's departure was regretted by all, and he was delighted to perceive that Pulcheria seemed startled and presently shrank into the background. [10]
- We begins to perceive through it that our own incarnations mean something, and that our task is to discover what they do mean--what part in the world purpose we are designed to play here. [9]
- Janet did not perceive the workman engaged in building this fence until the sound of his hammer attracted her attention. [9]
- Now, do you perceive the natural result? [5]
- Let them not perceive that thou art much changed from thy wont, for thou knowest how tenderly thy old play-fellows bear thee in their hearts and how 'twould grieve them. [5]
- I began to perceive that such a union as we contemplated involved more obligations than one not opposed to traditional views of morality. [9]
- She began to perceive that she was not free, that she was a part of a social machine, the power of which she had not at all apprehended, and that she was powerless in its clutch. [4]
- But we can perceive that he scarcely possessed the strength and fortitude needful for success in such an attempt. [5]
- The reader will perceive that all hope is gone here of deciding whether Herbert could have written Tennyson's poems, or whether Tennyson could have dug as much money out of the Heliogabalus Lode as Herbert did. [4]
- This, Shelley will perceive sooner or later, for his warm nature craves sympathy. [5]
- To this I perceive no objection, especially as such persons would be within the general pardoning power and also the special provision for pardon and amnesty contained in this act. [7]
- I do not perceive much force in the objection. [7]
- Equally difficult to perceive is the military necessity for forcibly interposing to prevent a bank from loaning its own money to the State. [7]
- I do not perceive in the plan any menace, or violence, or coercion towards any one. [7]
- He did not perceive his friend of the evening before, Mr. Widgeon, coming towards him up the side aisle, until he felt a touch on the arm. [9]
- What others scarcely perceive deals him a serious blow. [10]
- Cannot the Judge perceive a distinction between a purpose and an expectation? [7]
- I had not owned it a week before I began to perceive the same kind of fascination as that which its former owner had experienced. [6]
- She was not one who could open her heart to acquaintances: the curious ones got but little satisfaction, and the kind ones thought her cold, and they did not perceive that she was really grateful for their little attentions. [9]
- When you comprehend one or two other details, you will perceive how well suited for trouble it was, and how loudly it invited it. [5]
- At noon, on one of those madcap April days of that Coniston country, Jock descended from his work on the steeple to perceive the ungainly figure of Jethro Bass coming toward him across the green. [9]
- Janet's eyes fell on the open page to perceive that the coiffure her sister so painfully imitated was worn by a young woman with an insolent, vapid face and hard eyes, whose knees were crossed, revealing considerably more than an ankle. [9]
- He is one of the pleasantest men I have met in Louisiana, although a little taciturn, as you perceive, and more than a little deaf. [9]
- The soft light of the lamp, which with two others hung from a tall, heavy bronze stand in the shape of an anchor, which Bias had brought, shone brightly enough to allow him to perceive how powerful was the man whose life he had saved. [10]
- In this mood of pity, of anxiety mingled with appreciation and gratitude for what this man was doing, she turned to speak to him, to perceive on the platform at the end of the room a lady seated. [9]
- It was impossible, of course, that my friends should have failed to perceive the state of disorganization I was in, and some of them at least must have guessed its cause. [9]
- I perceive no objection to the third or fourth sections. [7]
- As I write, now, many months later, I perceive that each of us, by observing and noting and inquiring, diligently and day by day, had managed to lay in a most varied and opulent stock of misinformation. [5]
- The hero may now speak for himself, but we shall all perceive that we are listening to the writer's own story. [6]
- True, Barbara could not understand what they were saying, but it was easy enough to perceive in what way they were talking about her. [10]
- And are there not queries--which history may disclose in after years--as to whether Mr. Crewe's abilities as a statesman have not been seriously underrated by those who should have been the first to perceive them? [9]
- The pioneer could not but observe Katuti's agitation, and he said in a tone of sympathy: "I perceive that you are in pain, or in trouble. [10]
- One did not need to know them to perceive at the first glance that they were labourers in the department of intellectual life, though whether as scientists or poets even a practised observer would have found it difficult to determine. [10]
- Do you not, my good friend, perceive that what you ask is simply to put you in command in the West? [7]
- It is the Moral Sense which teaches the factory proprietors the difference between right and wrong--you perceive the result. [5]
- Remembering this, he might perceive that the "rebuke" may not be quite as durable as he seems to think--that the majority may not choose to remain permanently rebuked by that minority. [7]
- At first you might have thought Silos merely a peddler, but if you knew your Thoreau you would presently begin to perceive that peddling was the paltry price he paid for liberty. [9]
- What had really made her angry, she began to perceive, was the realization of a certain amount of truth in her sister's intimation concerning Ditmar. [9]
- The longer I live the clearer I perceive how unmatchable, how unapproachable, a compliment one pays when he says of a man "he has the courage (to utter) his convictions. [5]
- It lets a little light in on me, and I fancy I perceive that the farmers feel a little bored, sometimes, by the oracular profundity of agricultural editors who "know it all. [5]
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