All 13 Uses of
perceive
in
David Copperfield
- I did not quite perceive the application of this fact to myself, but I smiled on Mrs. Crupp, as benignly as was in my power.†
Chpt 25-27
- It would have been easy to perceive that they had not slept all last night, even if Peggotty had failed to tell me of their still sitting just as I left them, when it was broad day.†
Chpt 31-33
- No. Not Miss Mowcher's, I perceived.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- As I left him, resuming his stool and his pen, and rolling his head in his stock, to get it into easier writing order, I clearly perceived that there was something interposed between him and me, since he had come into his new functions, which prevented our getting at each other as we used to do, and quite altered the character of our intercourse.†
Chpt 37-39
- 'Well, Master Copperfield,' he replied, 'you perceive I am not bound to answer that question.†
Chpt 37-39
- When I had done tumbling over Traddles, and had sat upon something which was not a cat — my first seat was — I so far recovered my sight, as to perceive that Mr. Spenlow had evidently been the youngest of the family; that there was a disparity of six or eight years between the two sisters; and that the younger appeared to be the manager of the conference, inasmuch as she had my letter in her hand — so familiar as it looked to me, and yet so odd!†
Chpt 40-42
- I thought I perceived that Miss Lavinia would have uncommon satisfaction in superintending two young lovers, like Dora and me; and that Miss Clarissa would have hardly less satisfaction in seeing her superintend us, and in chiming in with her own particular department of the subject whenever that impulse was strong upon her.†
Chpt 40-42
- I perceived, for the first time, the dark suspicion that shadowed my life.'†
Chpt 43-45
- It was Mrs. Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived — and I was touched by it — with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son.†
Chpt 46-48
- For anything that I can perceive to the contrary, it is still probable that my children may be reduced to seek a livelihood by personal contortion, while Mrs. Micawber abets their unnatural feats by playing the barrel-organ.'†
Chpt 49-51
- The suddenness with which he dropped it, when he perceived that it was useless to him; the malice, insolence, and hatred, he revealed; the leer with which he exulted, even at this moment, in the evil he had done — all this time being desperate too, and at his wits' end for the means of getting the better of us — though perfectly consistent with the experience I had of him, at first took even me by surprise, who had known him so long, and disliked him so heartily.†
Chpt 52-54
- I was swept away, but not unkindly, to some distance, where the people around me made me stay; urging, as I confusedly perceived, that he was bent on going, with help or without, and that I should endanger the precautions for his safety by troubling those with whom they rested.†
Chpt 55-57
- All the other furniture is plain and serviceable, you perceive.†
Chpt 58-60
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