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  • The wolf ran hard for fifty yards without gaining perceptibly on the fawn, then suddenly broke off the chase and trotted back to rejoin his fellows.   (source)
    perceptibly = noticeably
  • The room begins to darken perceptibly now.   (source)
    perceptibly = in a manner that is capable of being noticed
  • There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime.   (source)
    perceptible = capable of being noticed
  • But in the song there was a secret little inner song, hardly perceptible, but always there, sweet and secret and clinging, almost hiding in the counter-melody, and this was the Song of the Pearl That Might Be, for every shell thrown in the basket might contain a pearl.   (source)
  • There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other. with little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool.   (source)
    perceptible = capable of being seen
  • Lucy's heart beat a trifle more audibly to the stethoscope, and her lungs had a perceptible movement.   (source)
    perceptible = noticeable
  • The jerks perceptibly diminished; as the sled gained momentum, he caught them up, till it was moving steadily along.   (source)
    perceptibly = noticeably
  • By and by, out of the stillness, little, scarcely perceptible noises began to emphasize themselves.   (source)
    perceptible = noticeable
  • A book lay spread on the sill before her, and the scarcely perceptible wind fluttered its leaves at intervals.   (source)
  • I indeed perceptibly gained on it, and when, after nearly two days' journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me.   (source)
    perceptibly = noticeably
  • I can remember no symptom of affection on either side; and had anything of the kind been perceptible, you must be aware that ours is not a family on which it could be thrown away.   (source)
    perceptible = capable of being noticed
  • The visor drew the OASIS directly onto my retinas, at the highest frame rate and resolution perceptible to the human eye.†   (source)
  • The atmosphere around the table changed perceptibly.†   (source)
  • An elderly, preternaturally tanned man—the mayor, somebody explainswaits with a white handkerchief in his big sailor's hands, a barely perceptible shake showing in his wrists.†   (source)
  • And without warning, with no perceptible change in mood, Rufus turned slightly and trained his rifle on us.†   (source)
  • Zakariyya looked to the ground and nodded, the corners of his mouth turning up into a barely perceptible smile.†   (source)
  • Even on stealth-sensitive radar he would be no more than a barely perceptible distortion.†   (source)
  • I watched as his golden eyes grew perceptibly darker day by day.†   (source)
  • He treats us to "a singularly dreary tract of country," to "a few rank sedges" and "white trunks of decayed trees," to "the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn," so that we're ready for the "bleak walls" of the house with its "vacant eye-like windows" and its "barely perceptible fissure" zigzagging its way down the wall right down to "the sullen waters of the tarn."†   (source)
  • Are you saying the printout shows the first ambiguous signs of a barely perceptible condition deriving from minimal acceptable spillage exposure?†   (source)
  • He just looked at her with his sad eyes, then, barely perceptibly, he nodded.†   (source)
  • There was a barely perceptible hiss and a needle-tipped dart punched right through the metal coin, impaling it in midair and pinning it to the opposite wall.†   (source)
  • His shoulders drooped perceptibly.†   (source)
  • On 11 August the nervous tension in the building rose perceptibly.†   (source)
  • When Bast finally turned from the bar, Chronicler's eyes widened perceptibly, and the color drained from his already pale face.†   (source)
  • The draft of air at their backs carried a sensation of moisture clearly perceptible to both Jessica and Paul.†   (source)
  • The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, leaned to his right and nodded just perceptibly while Nels Gudmundsson spoke into his ear.†   (source)
  • The engines slowed perceptibly and the nose of the airplane dipped unusually low, producing a steep, quick descent.†   (source)
  • What no member of the family ever knew was that the strangers did not take long to realize that Remedios the Beauty gave off a breath of perturbation, a tormenting breeze that was still perceptible several hours after she had passed by.†   (source)
  • The best he could do was to give a barely perceptible shake of his head as if he were dealing with a common inconvenience like hay fever or nearsightedness.†   (source)
  • I catch her eyes widen almost im- perceptibly with the initial shock of pain before they narrow again.†   (source)
  • A hardly perceptible shiver ran through the stem and up into the branches; the leaves rustled and whispered, but with a sound now of faint and far-off laughter.†   (source)
  • There was a barely perceptible smile on her lips.†   (source)
  • The first omen of her death was perceptible only to her.†   (source)
  • "But watching the movement of the water against his hand he noted that it was perceptibly slower lash the two oars together across the stern and that will slow him in the night," he said.†   (source)
  • Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat's eyes narrowed slightly at my tone of voice, muscles tensing just perceptibly around her mouth.†   (source)
  • THERE WAS A PERCEPTIBLE QUICKENING of activity at the big gray house that served as headquarters.†   (source)
  • … Another burst and the same voice continued, louder, even more authoritative, as the crowd momentarily but perceptibly quieted down, only to suddenly resume screaming at full volume.†   (source)
  • It had first spread through the block like a sour odor that's only faintly perceptible and easily ignored until it starts growing in strength from the dozen mouths it had been lying in, among clammy gums and scum-coated teeth.†   (source)
  • I tried to make contact with her, and, though she did not understand, there was a perceptible check and a trace of puzzlement for some seconds.†   (source)
  • Gazzy touched the back of Iggy's hand, and Iggy concentrated on what was echoing barely perceptibly around him.†   (source)
  • Like whistling softly in class so that it got on the teacher's nerves, a barely perceptible whistle that could drive a teacher up the wall.†   (source)
  • I expect the weight of the blade to pull against me, but it's barely perceptible as it slides into the scabbard.†   (source)
  • His glance paused on Dagny, a pause perceptible only to her, as if he were saying: It works.†   (source)
  • The windows in the passenger car were actually made of crystal, which was heavy, clear, and thick, with a barely perceptible tinge of purple, and the rock faces that could be seen through it came out sharp and in bright detail.†   (source)
  • The days were getting shorter, the nights were perceptibly cooler, the year was turning toward the Christmas season and the long holiday which the entire countryside would celebrate—both the masters and the slaves.†   (source)
  • With the barely perceptible motion of a falling tree, the verbeeg slid back from the scimitar.†   (source)
  • Mikhail and Yaakov secured Nabil Awad to one of the chairs with duct tape, and on Fareed Bakarat's signal, a barely perceptible nod of his regal head, they removed the hood.†   (source)
  • Zooey perceptibly smiled, went on for a few seconds with his combing, then suddenly turned.†   (source)
  • In her best, rose-colored dress — this combined a mandarin collar with a circle skirt — she also looked perceptibly pregnant.†   (source)
  • Perceptibly the light dimmed through the windows and the candles grew brighter.†   (source)
  • There had hung the sense of buffering, insulation, she had noticed the absence of an intensity, as if watching a movie, just perceptibly out of focus, that the projectionist refused to fix.†   (source)
  • And it was with a peculiarly ambiguous effort, following a barely perceptible decision, that I twitched the fingers of my left hand sufficiently to bring them into the flame itself.†   (source)
  • Only one white family actively participates in island life to any perceptible degree.†   (source)
  • Finding it gave him a just barely perceptible touch of comfort.†   (source)
  • There had not been any perceptible change in him for the last five years, but she had the sense that she might be cheated out of her triumph because she so often was.†   (source)
  • But he saw only details: two great eyes, and a broad, low forehead, and the triangle of his nose, and his enormous mouth, and the barely perceptible cleft in his chin, which was, his father said, the mark of the Devil's little finger.†   (source)
  • Jinny Love had begun building a sand castle over her foot In the sky clouds moved no more perceptibly than grazing animals.†   (source)
  • In the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women's hair.   (source)
    perceptibly = in a manner that is capable of being noticed
  • "I never loved him," she said, with perceptible reluctance.   (source)
    perceptible = noticeable
  • Injun Joe gave a barely perceptible start.   (source)
  • Tom looked up in her face with just a perceptible twinkle peeping through his gravity.   (source)
  • The spark, however, was perceptible.   (source)
    perceptible = capable of being noticed
  • Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.   (source)
    perceptible = noticeable
  • For a time the girl refused to notice; but her human curiosity presently began to manifest itself by hardly perceptible signs.   (source)
  • My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.   (source)
  • He raised it perhaps two inches, no more than that, the movement barely perceptible.†   (source)
  • I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always.†   (source)
  • The barely perceptible breeze rippled her dress like the waters of a small lake.†   (source)
  • At the same moment the stirring of the air became perceptible to them; and it grew very cold.†   (source)
  • I don't know, Bessie," Zooey answered, after a perceptible hesitation.†   (source)
  • They were only perceptible at first as the light is in the sky before the moon rises.†   (source)
  • And from that day on there was a perceptible change in her attitude toward Moody.†   (source)
  • He then picked up the phone without any perceptible hesitation and dialled a local number.†   (source)
  • But as she neared my vantage point, she glanced up and gave a barely perceptible nod of her head.†   (source)
  • They started with no perceptible motion, but her hat blew off.†   (source)
  • "No," she said, with a certain perceptible degree of finality in her tone.†   (source)
  • Her eyes narrowed just perceptibly, and a hint of the smile returned, ironic this time.†   (source)
  • School was winding down, and, for the senior class especially, there was a perceptible thrill in the air.†   (source)
  • There was a barely perceptible pause.†   (source)
  • The body—despite the two hours it had spent in transport from White Sand Bay to the dock east of'the ferry terminal and from there in the back of Abel Martinson's truck up First Hill and into the alley behind the courthouse (where the morgue and the coroner's office could be found beyond a set of double doors that gave onto the courthouse basement)—had not thawed perceptibly, Horace noted.†   (source)
  • People were scarfing down the delicacies with abandon, though the despair was still perceptible in the slump of their shoulders, in the absence of smiles or laughter.†   (source)
  • Before long there came the sound of hoofs, at first hardly more than a tremor of the ground perceptible only to Aragorn as he lay upon the grass, then growing steadily louder and clearer to a quick beat.†   (source)
  • But Jackie Gleason on the screen made the place more plausible—he drew her toward a perceptible center.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Simon—the first to admit that he was not that observant about these things—that despite the joking around in the car, a perceptible distance had come between Magnus and Alec recently, one he couldn't quite put a finger on, but he knew it was there.†   (source)
  • The heavy, warm pressure of the atmosphere was perceptible even to my weak human senses, and it hinted at something major in the storm department.†   (source)
  • Instead of taking us through the front of the offices, Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat led us through a back corridor, through a door that opened at no perceptible cue from her—Station, that would be, the AI that ran this place, was this place, paying close attention to the inspector supervisor of its docks.†   (source)
  • He said quietly, "Dagny, for your own sake, and"-it was a barely perceptible hesitation-"and in the name of any pity you might feel for me, don't request what you're going to request.†   (source)
  • Things perceptible to the senses.†   (source)
  • …in the morning after a light sleep, have his eternal mug of bitter coffee in the kitchen, shut himself up all day in the workshop, and at four in the afternoon he would go along the porch dragging a stool, not even noticing the fire of the rose bushes or the brightness of the hour or the persistence of Amaranta, whose melancholy made the noise of a boiling pot, which was perfectly perceptible at dusk, and he would sit in the street door as long as the mosquitoes would allow him to.†   (source)
  • The residence of Arilesperas Strigan was barely visible from the air, only a circle slightly more than thirty-five meters in diameter, within which the snowmoss was perceptibly lighter and thinner.†   (source)
  • As Alessandro's eyes filled with the distant webs of enraged light, the corners of his mouth showed a barely perceptible smile.†   (source)
  • She raised her head a little, there was no perceptible change in her posture, it was no more than her awareness of her own body and of its meaning to him, but for the length of one sentence she stood as a woman, the suggestion of defiance coming only from the faintly stressed spacing of her words: "And what will it do to you?"†   (source)
  • Hardly perceptibly his head moved to the left and the right, and first one eye and then the other opened a slit.†   (source)
  • Matt studied his brother's face, perceptibly moving his lips to Nick's account, anticipating a word, changing expression when Nick did.†   (source)
  • There were rumors that the output of the Danagger Coal Company had fallen perceptibly within one month; the newspapers said that it was merely a matter of readjustment while Danagger's cousin was reorganizing the company he had taken over.†   (source)
  • A few days before, as Ariane had taken off her dress, Alessandro had watched the rising and falling of her chest, the movement of the rib cage barely perceptible under the skin, and the changes in color that accompanied the steady sound of her breathing.†   (source)
  • Several hours after dusk he stopped at the end of the meadows, in a place where the glacier was so close that he could feel the rivers of cold air that flowed from it and carried its sounds-the muffled sound of a locked wheel skidding on a steel rail, diunder-like cracks, a barely perceptible rumble, as if from a giant piece of furniture being pulled slowly across a rough floor.†   (source)
  • As Sally Poker, who was near the end, crossed, she glanced at the General and saw him sitting fixed and fierce, his eyes wide open, and she turned her head forward again and held it a perceptible degree higher and received her scroll.†   (source)
  • She remembered that as she mounted the stairs with John's heavy weight in her arms, and as she entered the door, she heard music, which became perceptibly fainter as Florence closed the door behind her.†   (source)
  • Since I had never entered any community where strangers were greeted as affably as old friends, this information did not disturb me to any perceptible degree.†   (source)
  • The Professor stood to the left of the wheelchair, shrunken head bowed, just perceptibly shaking with palsy.†   (source)
  • The hardening of his voice was barely perceptible.†   (source)
  • FRANCIE (After a barely perceptible pause.†   (source)
  • She was a pretty, dark-haired woman, and appeared perceptibly nervous.†   (source)
  • His shoulders above the water were smooth and brown, shiny with the wet, and when he moved the muscles in his arms made a barely perceptible ripple.†   (source)
  • Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves.†   (source)
  • In the early days when I looked on Lois as merely the luscious machine, I had allowed certain scarcely perceptible changes to be made in my appearance.†   (source)
  • Out of their caves the horrible dwarf-creatures of the arid, bitter earth will venture; and very very gradually there will be perceptible a slight improvement in their morals, health, beauty, and stature; until presently they will be living in a world such as the one we know today.†   (source)
  • What with the chorus, and the spinning water and the just perceptible murmur of the breeze we are slipping away.†   (source)
  • But his eyes were lively, and the yellow spark in them was often most perceptible when he was quite silent.†   (source)
  • "Well, darling, I've collected your chum," she said, again with a barely perceptible note of contempt.†   (source)
  • …and the economic power he would represent when his mother passed on, was rooted; and he listening behind that expression, saying, 'Then you don't recommend the law as a vocation?' and now for just a moment the lawyer would stop, but not long; maybe not long enough or perceptible enough for you to call it pause: and he would be looking at Bon too: 'It hadn't occurred to me that the law might appeal to you' and Bon: 'Neither did practising with a rapier appeal to me while I was doing it.†   (source)
  • When it came to Sebastian he said: "I'll have whisky, please," and I saw Wilcox glance over his head to Lady Marchmain and saw her give a tiny, hardly perceptible nod.†   (source)
  • I knew what she meant, and in that moment felt as though I had shaken off some of the dust and grit of ten dry years; then and always, however she spoke to me, in half sentences, single words, stock phrases of contemporary jargon, in scarcely perceptible movements of eyes or lips or hands, however inexpressible her thought, however quick and far it had glanced from the matter in hand, however deep it had plunged, as it often did, straight from the surface to the depths, I knew; even…†   (source)
  • He examined the charge sheets, spoke affably to the men who had made the arrest; with the slightest perceptible nuance he opened the way for bribery and quickly covered it when he saw that things had now lasted too long and the knowledge had been too widely shared; he undertook to deliver us at the magistrate's court at ten next morning, and then led us away.†   (source)
  • The baronet's face perceptibly lengthened.†   (source)
  • He pointed to the light in the sky—hardly perceptible to their older eyes.†   (source)
  • Not that THEY added perceptibly to the noise of the party.†   (source)
  • It was only round the edge of the common that any disturbance was perceptible.†   (source)
  • Miss Wilcox had changed perceptibly since her engagement.†   (source)
  • They were not talking (perceptibly) as they stood side by side by the yellow curtains.†   (source)
  • Selden's perceptible pause gave her time for a slight stir of surprise.†   (source)
  • Not the slightest movement was perceptible, not the faintest breathing could be heard.†   (source)
  • He said with a perceptible tartness: "Oh, I suppose it's President Wilson.†   (source)
  • There was absolutely not a perceptible sound.†   (source)
  • Longstreth gave a slight start, barely perceptible, like the switch of an awakening tiger.†   (source)
  • Uneven ground offered no perceptible obstacle to his running.†   (source)
  • Miss Bart received this explanation without perceptible softening.†   (source)
  • A low rushing sound became perceptible, and it grew louder, became a roar.†   (source)
  • There was a perceptible current out in the river, and it hindered straight advancement.†   (source)
  • The delay did not perceptibly weaken her resolve.†   (source)
  • When he made this turn Madeline observed that the sun had perceptibly begun its slant westward.†   (source)
  • Mr. Casaubon winced perceptibly, but bowed.†   (source)
  • It was five miles from us and formed no more than a dark, barely perceptible mass.†   (source)
  • He observed the manoeuvring with a perceptible brightening of the eyes.†   (source)
  • His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.†   (source)
  • The slope of this gallery was scarcely perceptible, and its sections very unequal.†   (source)
  • Nicholas shrugged his shoulders in a manner that was scarcely perceptible, and said he saw it was.†   (source)
  • "Then what on earth is your meaning, Mr. Lorry?" demanded Stryver, perceptibly crestfallen.†   (source)
  • By centre and skin, if there is any perceptible difference; otherwise the double shot must follow.†   (source)
  • Stepan Arkadyevitch gave a scarcely perceptible smile.†   (source)
  • Then the curtain moved more perceptibly, and the woman in the bed put it back, and sat up.†   (source)
  • The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher and his head tilting yet further back.†   (source)
  • Mrs Warren pretends to laugh, but looks after him with perceptible concern.†   (source)
  • Bazarov's thin lips moved just perceptibly, though he made no reply, but merely took off his cap.†   (source)
  • The influence of money began to be perceptible in State affairs.†   (source)
  • But what mainly disturbed me was the idea that had perceptibly descended.†   (source)
  • The figure perceptibly gave up its fixity, shifted a step or two, and turned round.†   (source)
  • "I am afraid of Rome," she answered, with a perceptible tremor of the voice.†   (source)
  • The woman paled slightly, but quite perceptibly, and the man looked flustered and irresolute.†   (source)
  • This is extremely perceptible in the United States.†   (source)
  • The road was now not ascending, at least not perceptibly.†   (source)
  • Madame Merle perceptibly flushed, but we know it was not her habit to retract.†   (source)
  • Henchard returned him a scarcely perceptible nod, and Jopp stopped.†   (source)
  • Something like a smile was perceptible on Madame de Villefort's countenance.†   (source)
  • 'I am very much obliged to you, ma'am,' said Ralph with a scarcely perceptible sneer.†   (source)
  • Whatever — whoever you are — be perceptible to the touch or I cannot live!†   (source)
  • No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean crisis, which was already perceptible.†   (source)
  • Then his tongue no longer articulated any perceptible sound; but his lips still moved.†   (source)
  • Do you always see them off?" said Sergey Ivanovitch with a hardly perceptible smile.†   (source)
  • To those on board the ship the movement of those waves will be the only perceptible motion.†   (source)
  • No light, sound, or movement was perceptible there.†   (source)
  • A quite perceptible smile glimmered on Mrs. Bird's face, as she answered, "We'll see."†   (source)
  • Anna gave a just perceptible smile, but made no answer.†   (source)
  • Andrea turned pale, but as it was dark his pallor was not perceptible.†   (source)
  • A mysterious frown becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens.†   (source)
  • The night was dark and damp, a scarcely perceptible moisture was descending from above.†   (source)
  • Vronsky gave a hardly perceptible shrug.†   (source)
  • There is a poison which destroys life almost without leaving any perceptible traces.†   (source)
  • Am I not right, good Christians?" said the tall youth, with a scarcely perceptible smile.†   (source)
  • However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette.†   (source)
  • The lawyer's overhanging reddish mustaches were parted in a scarcely perceptible smile.†   (source)
  • One of his legs twitches just perceptibly, but rapidly.†   (source)
  • The peppery odor of the carnations was perceptible.†   (source)
  • The pressure made him wince just perceptibly.†   (source)
  • His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by the shade.†   (source)
  • An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible beneath this hardihood.†   (source)
  • She made a violent effort to control herself, and turning her tear-stained face to him, she once more held out her hand, which he kissed with the same punctilious gallantry; but Marguerite's fingers, this time, lingered in his hand for a second or two longer than was absolutely necessary, and this was because she had felt that his hand trembled perceptibly and was burning hot, whilst his lips felt as cold as marble.†   (source)
  • They had been at table half an hour and a perceptible change had set in—person by person had given up something, a preoccupation, an anxiety, a suspicion, and now they were only their best selves and the Divers' guests.†   (source)
  • As he lay there he could hear Mattie moving about in her room, and her candle, sending its small ray across the landing, drew a scarcely perceptible line of light under his door.†   (source)
  • She has changed perceptibly—she is a trifle thinner for one thing; the light in her eyes is not so bright; she looks easily a year older.†   (source)
  • There were days when his life hung in the balance, when he could not talk; and then came a perceptible turn for the better.†   (source)
  • The horses plunged, hurtling the wagon along; the wind, now tainted with dust and scent of buffalo, rushed into Milly's face and waved her hair; the tremendous drag on the reins, at first scarcely perceptible, in her great excitement, began to hurt hands, wrists, arms, shoulders in a degree that compelled attention.†   (source)
  • From this point the rise of ground was more perceptible, and straggling cedars led the eye on to a purple slope that merged into green of pinyon and pine.†   (source)
  • She wondered if the cold had anything to do with the perceptible diminishing of the sound of the waterfall.†   (source)
  • With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the off-hand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Our young man of position was like the son of a royal house; the boy who swept out his office or drove his delivery wagon might frolic with the jolly country girls, but he himself must sit all evening in a plush parlour where conversation dragged so perceptibly that the father often came in and made blundering efforts to warm up the atmosphere.†   (source)
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