All 12 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.†
Chpt 1-3
- A difference of colour in the stars—oftener read of than seen in England—was really perceptible here.†
Chpt 1-3
- The sensation may be caused by the panoramic glide of the stars past earthly objects, which is perceptible in a few minutes of stillness, or by the better outlook upon space that a hill affords, or by the wind, or by the solitude; but whatever be its origin, the impression of riding along is vivid and abiding.†
Chpt 1-3
- His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Still, to a close observer, they are just as perceptible; the difference is that their media of manifestation are less trite and familiar than such well-known ones as the bursting of the buds or the fall of the leaf.†
Chpt 10-12
- There was no perceptible motion in the air, not a visible drop of water fell upon a leaf of the beeches, birches, and firs composing the wood on either side.†
Chpt 40-42
- The minutes glided by uncounted, until the evening shades began perceptibly to deepen, and the eyes of the three were but sparkling points on the surface of darkness.†
Chpt 40-42
- Troy was so unlike himself now in look, word, and deed, that the want of likeness was perceptible even to his own consciousness.†
Chpt 43-45
- This, necessarily a slow process, he found to be not altogether so difficult, and though there was no choice of a landing-place—the objects on shore passing by him in a sad and slow procession—he perceptibly approached the extremity of a spit of land yet further to the right, now well defined against the sunny portion of the horizon.†
Chpt 46-48
- When the weeks intervening between the night of this conversation and Christmas day began perceptibly to diminish, her anxiety and perplexity increased.†
Chpt 49-51
- The utter prostration that had followed the low fever from which she had suffered diminished perceptibly when all uncertainty upon every subject had come to an end.†
Chpt 55-57
- She was set thinking a great deal about Oak and of his wish to shun her; and there occurred to Bathsheba several incidents of her latter intercourse with him, which, trivial when singly viewed, amounted together to a perceptible disinclination for her society.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(perceptible) capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough