All 20 Uses of
perceive
in
Jane Eyre
- Now, uttered before a stranger, the accusation cut me to the heart; I dimly perceived that she was already obliterating hope from the new phase of existence which she destined me to enter; I felt, though I could not have expressed the feeling, that she was sowing aversion and unkindness along my future path; I saw myself transformed under Mr. Brocklehurst's eye into an artful, noxious child, and what could I do to remedy the injury?†
Chpt 4
- Ravenous, and now very faint, I devoured a spoonful or two of my portion without thinking of its taste; but the first edge of hunger blunted, I perceived I had got in hand a nauseous mess; burnt porridge is almost as bad as rotten potatoes; famine itself soon sickens over it.†
Chpt 5
- "A careless girl!" said Mr. Brocklehurst, and immediately after — "It is the new pupil, I perceive."†
Chpt 7
- I said this laughing: I perceived that Bessie's glance, though it expressed regard, did in no shape denote admiration.†
Chpt 10
- His shape, now divested of cloak, I perceived harmonised in squareness with his physiognomy: I suppose it was a good figure in the athletic sense of the term — broad chested and thin flanked, though neither tall nor graceful.†
Chpt 13
- I perceive those pictures were done by one hand: was that hand yours?†
Chpt 13
- A card of mine lay on the table; this being perceived, brought my name under discussion.†
Chpt 15
- I was surprised at this circumstance: but still more was I amazed to perceive the air quite dim, as if filled with smoke; and, while looking to the right hand and left, to find whence these blue wreaths issued, I became further aware of a strong smell of burning.†
Chpt 15
- "I wonder whether the master — " The charwoman was going on; but here Leah turned and perceived me, and she instantly gave her companion a nudge.†
Chpt 17
- It was with some trepidation that I perceived the hour approach when I was to repair with my charge to the drawing-room.†
Chpt 17
- I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) TRAILING Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance — her TRAIL might be clever, but it was decidedly not good-natured.†
Chpt 17
- Thence a narrow passage led into the hall: in crossing it, I perceived my sandal was loose; I stopped to tie it, kneeling down for that purpose on the mat at the foot of the staircase.†
Chpt 17
- The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching.†
Chpt 20
- In that case, sir, Adele ought to go to school: I am sure you will perceive the necessity of it.†
Chpt 21
- "And though I don't comprehend how it is, I perceive you have acquired a degree of regard for that foolish little child Adele, too; and even for simple dame Fairfax?"†
Chpt 23
- I would not ascribe vice to him; I would not say he had betrayed me; but the attribute of stainless truth was gone from his idea, and from his presence I must go: THAT I perceived well.†
Chpt 26
- 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.†
Chpt 27
- …nor even a single hour of the day with her in comfort; that kindly conversation could not be sustained between us, because whatever topic I started, immediately received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile — when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable temper, or the vexations of her absurd, contradictory, exacting orders — even then I restrained…†
Chpt 27
- How I looked while these ideas were taking my spirit by storm, I cannot tell; but I perceived soon that Mr. Rivers had placed a chair behind me, and was gently attempting to make me sit down on it.†
Chpt 33
- I perceived, of course, the drift of my interlocutor.†
Chpt 37 *
Definition:
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(perceive as in: perceive the system as unfair) to view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion