All 44 Uses of
apparent
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Her companion was apparently young and graceful; he could form no decided opinion upon her looks, her position being almost beneath his eye, so that he saw her in a bird's-eye view, as Milton's Satan first saw Paradise.†
Chpt 1-3
- The young woman, whose eyelids were apparently inclined to fall together on the smallest provocation of silence, yawned without parting her lips to any inconvenient extent, whereupon Gabriel caught the infection and slightly yawned in sympathy.†
Chpt 1-3
- Beside her Oak now noticed a little calf about a day old, looking idiotically at the two women, which showed that it had not long been accustomed to the phenomenon of eyesight, and often turning to the lantern, which it apparently mistook for the moon, inherited instinct having as yet had little time for correction by experience.†
Chpt 1-3
- She had no side-saddle, and it was very apparent that a firm seat upon the smooth leather beneath her was unattainable sideways.†
Chpt 1-3
- On coming close, he found there were no horses attached to it, the spot being apparently quite deserted.†
Chpt 4-6
- They were now apparently close upon Weatherbury and not to alarm the speakers unnecessarily, Gabriel slipped out of the waggon unseen.†
Chpt 4-6
- "No—I've hardly looked at her at all," simpered Joseph, reducing his body smaller whilst talking, apparently from a meek sense of undue prominence.†
Chpt 7-9
- The tramp of a horse was apparent, approaching the front of the building.†
Chpt 7-9
- Then a noise was heard, apparently produced by the opening of the window.†
Chpt 10-12
- Apparently he had some time ago reached that entrance to middle age at which a man's aspect naturally ceases to alter for the term of a dozen years or so; and, artificially, a woman's does likewise.†
Chpt 10-12
- The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue.†
Chpt 13-15
- It was one of the usual slow sunrises of this time of the year, and the sky, pure violet in the zenith, was leaden to the northward, and murky to the east, where, over the snowy down or ewe-lease on Weatherbury Upper Farm, and apparently resting upon the ridge, the only half of the sun yet visible burnt rayless, like a red and flameless fire shining over a white hearthstone.†
Chpt 13-15
- The glow stretched down in this direction now, and touched the distant roof of Warren's Malthouse—whither the shepherd was apparently bent: Boldwood followed at a distance.†
Chpt 13-15
- "I do, I do; but no baily—I deserved that place," wailed Henery, signifying wasted genius by gazing blankly at visions of a high destiny apparently visible to him on Billy Smallbury's smock-frock.†
Chpt 13-15
- He whispered to the soldier, and then beckoned to the clerk, who in his turn whispered to an elderly woman, apparently his wife, and they also went up the chancel steps.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Or wishing it, I suppose," she said; and it was apparent that she expected an unhesitating denial of this supposition.†
Chpt 19-21
- The vast porches at the sides, lofty enough to admit a waggon laden to its highest with corn in the sheaf, were spanned by heavy-pointed arches of stone, broadly and boldly cut, whose very simplicity was the origin of a grandeur not apparent in erections where more ornament has been attempted.†
Chpt 22-24
- Poor Gabriel's soul was fed with a luxury of content by having her over him, her eyes critically regarding his skilful shears, which apparently were going to gather up a piece of the flesh at every close, and yet never did so.†
Chpt 22-24
- She was far from having a wish to appear mysteriously connected with him; but woman at the impressionable age gravitates to the larger body not only in her choice of words, which is apparent every day, but even in her shades of tone and humour, when the influence is great.†
Chpt 22-24
- Apparently not.†
Chpt 22-24
- The bent and hoary man was satisfied, and so apparently was Henery Fray.†
Chpt 22-24
- How long he had been gone Oak did not know; but he had apparently withdrawn into the encircling dusk.†
Chpt 22-24
- The noise approached, came close, and a figure was apparently on the point of gliding past her when something tugged at her skirt and pinned it forcibly to the ground.†
Chpt 22-24
- It was immediately apparent that the military man's spur had become entangled in the gimp which decorated the skirt of her dress.†
Chpt 22-24
- He flourished the sword by way of introduction number two, and the next thing of which she was conscious was that the point and blade of the sword were darting with a gleam towards her left side, just above her hip; then of their reappearance on her right side, emerging as it were from between her ribs, having apparently passed through her body.†
Chpt 28-30
- A figure apparently rose from the earth beside her.†
Chpt 28-30
- Here she could see some object which circumstances proved to be a vehicle, for after a few minutes spent apparently in harnessing, she heard the trot of the horse down the road, mingled with the sound of light wheels.†
Chpt 31-33
- Losing the thread of his narrative at this point simultaneously with his loss of breath, their informant looked up and down the field apparently for some clue to it.†
Chpt 31-33
- You say you love Bathsheba; yet on the merest apparent evidence you instantly believe in her dishonour.†
Chpt 34-36
- Apparently there was to be a thunderstorm,
Chpt 34-36 *apparently = appearing clear or obvious though not necessarily so
- Joseph Poorgrass was curled round in the fashion of a hedge-hog, apparently in attempts to present the least possible portion of his surface to the air; and behind him was dimly visible an unimportant remnant of William Smallbury.†
Chpt 34-36
- In the open ground before him, as he looked over the ridge of the rick, was a dark and apparently female form.†
Chpt 37-39
- By the lustre reflected from every part of the earth and from the wide domical scoop above it, he saw that the tree was sliced down the whole length of its tall, straight stem, a huge riband of bark being apparently flung off.†
Chpt 37-39
- Not a single one of them had turned his face to the ricks, or apparently bestowed one thought upon their condition.†
Chpt 37-39
- The pedestrian stood up, apparently with revived determination, and looked around.†
Chpt 40-42
- Troy, as he spoke, looked at his watch, and, apparently actuated by non lucendo principles, opened the case at the back, revealing, snugly stowed within it, a small coil of hair.†
Chpt 40-42
- That entry and exit hereby was only at rare intervals became apparent on noting that tufts of grass were allowed to flourish undisturbed in the chinks of the sill.†
Chpt 40-42
- The boy was of the dunce class apparently; the book was a psalter, and this was his way of learning the collect.†
Chpt 43-45
- The suddenness was probably more apparent than real.†
Chpt 46-48
- On this Saturday Bathsheba was passing slowly on foot through the crowd of rural business-men gathered as usual in front of the market-house, who were as usual gazed upon by the burghers with feelings that those healthy lives were dearly paid for by exclusion from possible aldermanship, when a man, who had apparently been following her, said some words to another on her left hand.†
Chpt 46-48
- Nevertheless, this thought of how the apparent might differ from the real—made vivid by her bygone jealousy of Fanny, and the remorse he had shown that night—did not blind her to the perception of a likelier difference, less tragic, but to herself far more disastrous.†
Chpt 46-48
- Boldwood, who was apparently determined by personal rather than commercial reasons, suggested that Oak should be furnished with a horse for his sole use, when the plan would present no difficulty, the two farms lying side by side.†
Chpt 49-51
- She was leaning back, sipping a cup of tea that she held in her hand, and the owner of the male voice was Boldwood, who had apparently just brought the cup to her, Bathsheba, being in a negligent mood, leant so idly against the canvas that it was pressed to the shape of her shoulder, and she was, in fact, as good as in Troy's arms; and he was obliged to keep his breast carefully backward that she might not feel its warmth through the cloth as he gazed in.†
Chpt 49-51
- She was in a state of mental gutta serena; her mind was for the minute totally deprived of light at the same time no obscuration was apparent from without.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so