All 10 Uses of
perceptible
in
The House of Mirth
- He felt the confused titillation with which the lower organisms welcome the gratification of their needs, and all his senses floundered in a vague well-being, through which Miss Bart's personality was dimly but pleasantly perceptible.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- A few family portraits of lantern-jawed gentlemen in tie-wigs, and ladies with large head-dresses and small bodies, hung between the shelves lined with pleasantly-shabby books: books mostly contemporaneous with the ancestors in question, and to which the subsequent Trenors had made no perceptible additions.†
Chpt 1.5
- Mrs. Peniston's face clouded perceptibly, but did not express the astonishment her niece had expected.†
Chpt 1.15
- But there was another change, perceptible only to Lily; and that was that Dorset now avoided her almost as pointedly as his wife.†
Chpt 2.3
- What troubled him was that, though Dorset's attitude had perceptibly changed, the change was not clearly to be accounted for.†
Chpt 2.3
- Selden's perceptible pause gave her time for a slight stir of surprise.†
Chpt 2.8
- Miss Bart received this explanation without perceptible softening.†
Chpt 2.9
- Her week of idleness had brought home to her with exaggerated force these small aggravations of the boarding-house world, and she yearned for that other luxurious world, whose machinery is so carefully concealed that one scene flows into another without perceptible agency.†
Chpt 2.11
- The delay did not perceptibly weaken her resolve.†
Chpt 2.11
- The tinge of constraint was beginning to be more distinctly perceptible under the friendly ease of his manner.†
Chpt 2.12
Definition:
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(perceptible) capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough