All 21 Uses of
perceive
in
Middlemarch
- Mr. Casaubon gravely smiled approval, and said to Mr. Brooke, "You have an excellent secretary at hand, you perceive."†
Chpt 1
- Rosamond turned to Lydgate, smiling gently, and said, "You perceive, the bears will not always be taught."†
Chpt 2
- "I perceive that the votes are equally divided at present," said Mr. Bulstrode, in a clear biting voice.†
Chpt 2
- A sense of contributing to form the world's opinion makes conversation particularly cheerful; and Mr. Casaubon too was not without his pride in his young wife, who spoke better than most women, as indeed he had perceived in choosing her.†
Chpt 2
- But Will had come to perceive that his defects—defects which Mr. Casaubon had himself often pointed to—needed for their correction that more strenuous position which his relative's generosity had hitherto prevented from being inevitable.†
Chpt 3
- As to any provincial history in which the agents are all of high moral rank, that must be of a date long posterior to the first Reform Bill, and Peter Featherstone, you perceive, was dead and buried some months before Lord Grey came into office.†
Chpt 4
- Lydgate, you perceive, had talked fervidly to Rosamond of his hopes as to the highest uses of his life, and had found it delightful to be listened to by a creature who would bring him the sweet furtherance of satisfying affection—beauty—repose—such help as our thoughts get from the summer sky and the flower-fringed meadows.†
Chpt 4
- There was a gentleness in his tone which came from the unutterable contentment of perceiving—what Dorothea was hardly conscious of—that she was travelling into the remoteness of pure pity and loyalty towards her husband.†
Chpt 4
- You are a devout worshipper, I perceive.†
Chpt 5 *
- You have perceived that distinctly, Dorothea?†
Chpt 5
- He had written out various speeches and memoranda for speeches, but he had begun to perceive that Mr. Brooke's mind, if it had the burthen of remembering any train of thought, would let it drop, run away in search of it, and not easily come back again.†
Chpt 5
- That is the well-beneficed point of view, you perceive, from which difficulties are much simplified," he ended, smiling.†
Chpt 5
- The cool and judicious Joshua Rigg had not allowed his parent to perceive that Stone Court was anything less than the chief good in his estimation, and he had certainly wished to call it his own.†
Chpt 5
- Rosamond was perfectly graceful and calm, and only a subtle observation such as the Vicar had not been roused to bestow on her would have perceived the total absence of that interest in her husband's presence which a loving wife is sure to betray, even if etiquette keeps her aloof from him.†
Chpt 7
- It angered him to perceive that Rosamond's mind was wandering over impracticable wishes instead of facing possible efforts.†
Chpt 7
- "Will you only say that you have been mistaken, and that I may depend on your not acting secretly in future?" said Lydgate, urgently, but with something of request in his tone which Rosamond was quick to perceive.†
Chpt 7
- Still, early in March his affairs were at that pass in which men begin to say that their oaths were delivered in ignorance, and to perceive that the act which they had called impossible to them is becoming manifestly possible.†
Chpt 7
- Mr. Hawley was not slow to perceive that there was no handle for the law either in the revelations made by Raffles or in the circumstances of his death.†
Chpt 7
- He perceived that Mr. Hawley knew nothing at present of the sudden relief from debt, and he himself was careful to glide away from all approaches towards the subject.†
Chpt 7
- He perceived the difference in a moment, and seating himself by her put his arm gently under her, and bending over her said, "My poor Rosamond! has something agitated you?"†
Chpt 8
- It was a tumult in which the terrible strain of the night and morning made a resistant pain:—she could only perceive that this would be joy when she had recovered her power of feeling it.†
Chpt 8
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