All 11 Uses of
perceive
in
The Two Towers
- In pairs they galloped by, and though every now and then one rose in his stirrups and gazed ahead and to either side, they appeared not to perceive the three strangers sitting silently and watching them.†
Chpt 3.2
- But he does not yet perceive our purpose clearly.
Chpt 3.5 *perceive = see (have awareness of)
- As their eyes changed, the travellers perceived that the floor was paved with stones of many hues; branching runes and strange devices intertwined beneath their feet.†
Chpt 3.6
- It was stained as with dried blood; and looking closer they perceived that its nails were red.†
Chpt 3.8
- The king and all his company sat silent on their horses, marvelling, perceiving that the power of Saruman was overthrown; but how they could not guess.†
Chpt 3.8
- You hold out your hand to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of Mordor.†
Chpt 3.10
- It was his downfall, as I now perceive.†
Chpt 3.11 *
- Even now my heart desires to test my will upon it, to see if I could not wrench it from him and turn it where I would-to look across the wide seas of water and of time to Tirion the Fair, and perceive the unimaginable hand and mind of Feanor at their work, while both the White Tree and the Golden were in flower!†
Chpt 3.11
- Men turned back to their drink and their talk, perceiving that their captain had had some jest or other with the little guests, and that it was over.†
Chpt 4.5
- That much I perceived clearly in his mind.†
Chpt 4.6
- At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky.†
Chpt 4.7
Definitions:
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(perceive as in: though blind, can perceive light) to become aware of -- especially by using the senses (to see, hear, smell, feel, or taste)
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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