All 26 Uses of
perceive
in
Anna Karenina
- He at once perceived it, and blushed too.†
Part 1 *
- All the members of that family, especially the feminine half, were pictured by him, as it were, wrapped about with a mysterious poetical veil, and he not only perceived no defects whatever in them, but under the poetical veil that shrouded them he assumed the existence of the loftiest sentiments and every possible perfection.†
Part 1
- Kitty perceived that Anna knew what answer would follow.†
Part 1
- He perceived that it was no good talking to the old man, and that the principal person in the house was the mother.†
Part 2
- Before this, as soon as Kitty went out of the room in tears, Dolly, with her motherly, family instincts, had promptly perceived that here a woman's work lay before her, and she prepared to do it.†
Part 2
- 'I consent, count, and am ready to overlook it; but you perceive that my wife—my wife's a respectable woman —has been exposed to the persecution, and insults, and effrontery of young upstarts, scoundrels….'†
Part 2
- As the head of the family, I am a person bound in duty to guide her, and consequently, in part the person responsible; I am bound to point out the danger I perceive, to warn her, even to use my authority.†
Part 2
- Once more he perceived in front of him the same back and short tail, and again the same swiftly moving white legs that got no further away.†
Part 2
- "That is not for us to judge," said Madame Stahl, perceiving the shade of expression on the prince's face.†
Part 2
- But now coming to the country as the head of a family, she perceived that it was all utterly unlike what she had fancied.†
Part 3
- From the vague answers to his question how much hay had been cut on the principal meadow, from the hurry of the village elder who had made the division, not asking leave, from the whole tone of the peasant, Levin perceived that there was something wrong in the division of the hay, and made up his mind to drive over himself to look into the matter.†
Part 3
- Alexey Alexandrovitch had perceived this at once on entering office, and would have liked to lay hands on the Board of Irrigation.†
Part 3
- Since Alexey Alexandrovitch had left home with the intention of not returning to his family again, and since he had been at the lawyer's and had spoken, though only to one man, of his intention, since especially he had translated the matter from the world of real life to the world of ink and paper, he had grown more and more used to his own intention, and by now distinctly perceived the feasibility of its execution.†
Part 4
- All these acquaintances he observed with difficulty concealing their mirth at something; the same mirth that he had perceived in the lawyer's eyes, and just now in the eyes of this groom.†
Part 4
- Levin felt more than ever now that there was something not clear and not clean in his soul, and that, in regard to religion, he was in the same position which he perceived so clearly and disliked in others, and for which he blamed his friend Sviazhsky.†
Part 5
- At that meeting Vronsky perceived that Golenishtchev had taken up a sort of lofty, intellectually liberal line, and was consequently disposed to look down upon Vronsky's interests and calling in life.†
Part 5
- And that's not all—twenty years ago he would have found in that literature traces of conflict with authorities, with the creeds of the ages; he would have perceived from this conflict that there was something else; but now he comes at once upon a literature in which the old creeds do not even furnish matter for discussion, but it is stated baldly that there is nothing else—evolution, natural selection, struggle for existence—and that's all.†
Part 5
- Korney, perceiving his master's emotion, asked the clerk to call another time.†
Part 5
- Analyzing her feeling, and comparing it with former passions, she distinctly perceived that she would not have been in love with Komissarov if he had not saved the life of the Tsar, that she would not have been in love with Ristitch-Kudzhitsky if there had been no Slavonic question, but that she loved Karenin for himself, for his lofty, uncomprehended soul, for the sweet—to her—high notes of his voice, for his drawling intonation, his weary eyes, his character, and his soft white hands…†
Part 5
- This full stop had arrived and everyone perceived it, but Alexey Alexandrovitch himself was not yet aware that his career was over.†
Part 5
- But he very quickly perceived that though the world was open for him personally, it was closed for Anna.†
Part 5
- Their stay in Petersburg was the more painful to Vronsky that he perceived all the time a sort of new mood that he could not understand in Anna.†
Part 5
- "I'm sorry I've broken in on your feminine parliament," he said, looking round on every one discontentedly, and perceiving that they had been talking of something which they would not talk about before him.†
Part 6
- "You go, you go, you'll find the way to the mill!" cried Levin, and looking round he perceived with satisfaction that Veslovsky, bent and stumbling with weariness, holding his gun out at arm's length, was making his way out of the marsh towards the peasants.†
Part 6
- And perceiving that, while trying to regain her peace of mind, she had gone round the same circle that she had been round so often before, and had come back to her former state of exasperation, she was horrified at herself.†
Part 7
- He took her for an acquaintance, and lifted his glossy hat above his bald, glossy head, and then perceived his mistake.†
Part 7
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