All 6 Uses of
perceptible
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- As Miss La Creevy spoke, she held up an ivory countenance intersected with very perceptible sky-blue veins, and regarded it with so much complacency, that Nicholas quite envied her.†
Chpt 5
- Nicholas shrugged his shoulders in a manner that was scarcely perceptible, and said he saw it was.†
Chpt 8 *
- 'I am very much obliged to you, ma'am,' said Ralph with a scarcely perceptible sneer.†
Chpt 10
- As they shook each other by the hand: the face of each lighted up by beaming looks of affection, which would have been most delightful to behold in infants, and which, in men so old, was inexpressibly touching: Nicholas could observe that the last old gentleman was something stouter than his brother; this, and a slight additional shade of clumsiness in his gait and stature, formed the only perceptible difference between them.†
Chpt 35
- While they had never looked more handsome, nor he more ugly; while they had never held themselves more proudly, nor he shrunk half so low; there never had been a time when this resemblance was so perceptible, or when all the worst characteristics of a face rendered coarse and harsh by evil thoughts were half so manifest as now.†
Chpt 54
- As they stole farther and farther in by slight and scarcely perceptible degrees, and with such caution that they scarcely seemed to breathe, the old hag and Squeers little dreaming of any such invasion, and utterly unconscious of there being any soul near but themselves, were busily occupied with their tasks.†
Chpt 57
Definition:
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(perceptible) capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough