All 8 Uses of
perceptible
in
Middlemarch
- Even the points it clings to—the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung—are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of fingertips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors.†
Chpt 4
- There was a perceptible pause before Mr. Casaubon replied, not quickly as before, but with a still more biting emphasis.†
Chpt 4
- Mr. Casaubon winced perceptibly, but bowed.†
Chpt 4 *
- …afterwards entered into what he called city business and gained a fortune before he was three-and-thirty, that he had married a widow who was much older than himself—a Dissenter, and in other ways probably of that disadvantageous quality usually perceptible in a first wife if inquired into with the dispassionate judgment of a second—was almost as much as she had cared to learn beyond the glimpses which Mr. Bulstrode's narrative occasionally gave of his early bent towards religion, his…†
Chpt 6
- Dorothea's heart seemed to turn over as if it had had a blow, but she was not perceptibly checked: in truth, the sense that Will was there was for the moment all-satisfying to her, like the sight of something precious that one has lost.†
Chpt 6
- Mr. Farebrother seemed to wait for a recognition of the fact; and the emotion perceptible in the tones of his fine voice gave solemnity to his words.†
Chpt 7
- When Lydgate came in, she was almost shocked at the change in his face, which was strikingly perceptible to her who had not seen him for two months.†
Chpt 8
- And then, if you and Fred get married," here Caleb's voice shook just perceptibly, "he'll be steady and saving; and you've got your mother's cleverness, and mine too, in a woman's sort of way; and you'll keep him in order.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(perceptible) capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough