All 18 Uses of
perceptible
in
War and Peace
- Her pretty little upper lip, on which a delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip.†
Chpt 1
- The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher and his head tilting yet further back.†
Chpt 1 *
- And the lathe?" asked Prince Andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was aware of his weaknesses.†
Chpt 1
- …it impossible for a man to stretch himself more than Timokhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutuzov, who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his scarred and puffy face.†
Chpt 2
- How strange, how extraordinary, how joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who had first learned to say "pear" and then "granny," that this son should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly warrior doing some kind of man's work of his own, without help or guidance.†
Chpt 3
- All the plans Pierre had attempted on his estates—and constantly changing from one thing to another had never accomplished—were carried out by Prince Andrew without display and without perceptible difficulty.†
Chpt 6
- Napoleon seemed to say, as with a scarcely perceptible smile he looked at Balashev's uniform and sword.†
Chpt 9
- Their usefulness did not depend on making the patient swallow substances for the most part harmful (the harm was scarcely perceptible, as they were given in small doses), but they were useful, necessary, and indispensable because they satisfied a mental need of the invalid and of those who loved her—and that is why there are, and always will be, pseudo-healers, wise women, homeopaths, and allopaths.†
Chpt 9
- The night was dark and damp, a scarcely perceptible moisture was descending from above.†
Chpt 10
- Am I not right, good Christians?" said the tall youth, with a scarcely perceptible smile.†
Chpt 11
- "Sire!" said Michaud with a subtle, scarcely perceptible smile on his lips, having now prepared a well-phrased reply, "sire, I left the whole army, from its chiefs to the lowest soldier, without exception in desperate and agonized terror…."†
Chpt 12
- The pressure made him wince just perceptibly.†
Chpt 12
- Prince Andrew smiled just perceptibly and for the first time, but Princess Mary, who knew his face so well, saw with horror that he did not smile with pleasure or affection for his son, but with quiet, gentle irony because he thought she was trying what she believed to be the last means of arousing him.†
Chpt 12
- One of his legs twitches just perceptibly, but rapidly.†
Chpt 15
- Suddenly he seemed to remember; a scarcely perceptible smile flashed across his puffy face, and bowing low and respectfully he took the object that lay on the salver.†
Chpt 15
- At present he still forgot what was said to him and still did not see what was before his eyes, but he now looked with a scarcely perceptible and seemingly ironic smile at what was before him and listened to what was said, though evidently seeing and hearing something quite different.†
Chpt 15
- Pierre's confusion was not reflected by any confusion on Natasha's part, but only by the pleasure that just perceptibly lit up her whole face.†
Chpt 15
- To those on board the ship the movement of those waves will be the only perceptible motion.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(perceptible) capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough