All 6 Uses of
apparent
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- He carried a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, for his hand was still raised to it as he entered.†
Chpt 1
- Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe.†
Chpt 1
- You observed that her right glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink.†
Chpt 3 *
- Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect equality, as they were frequently together.†
Chpt 4
- Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of the tragedy.†
Chpt 6
- Sherlock Holmes had been silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so