All 13 Uses of
perception
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- A perception caused him to withdraw his own eyes from hers as suddenly as if he had been caught in a theft.†
Chpt 1-3
- During the first stages of his return to perception peculiar deeds seemed to be in course of enactment.†
Chpt 1-3
- "Ay," said Joseph, acquiring confidence from the warmth of the fire, the cider, and a perception of the narrative capabilities of the experience alluded to.†
Chpt 7-9
- It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, but they possibly did with Oak to-night, for the delight of merely seeing her effaced for the time his perception of the great difference between seeing and possessing.†
Chpt 7-9
- Farmer Boldwood had read the pantomime denoting that they were aware of his presence, and the perception was as too much light turned upon his new sensibility.†
Chpt 16-18
- The wondrous power of flattery in passados at woman is a perception so universal as to be remarked upon by many people almost as automatically as they repeat a proverb, or say that they are Christians and the like, without thinking much of the enormous corollaries which spring from the proposition.†
Chpt 25-27
- In the turmoil of her anxiety for her lover she had agreed to marry him; but the perception that had accompanied her happiest hours on this account was rather that of self-sacrifice than of promotion and honour.†
Chpt 40-42
- "Liddy, for Heaven's sake stop your talking!" said Bathsheba, with the nervous petulance that comes from worrying perceptions.†
Chpt 40-42
- Oak may have had the best of intentions in withholding for as many days as possible the details of what had happened to Fanny; but had he known that Bathsheba's perceptions had already been exercised in the matter, he would have done nothing to lengthen the minutes of suspense she was now undergoing, when the certainty which must terminate it would be the worst fact suspected after all.†
Chpt 43-45
- Troy, in his prostration at this time, had no perception that in the futility of these romantic doings, dictated by a remorseful reaction from previous indifference, there was any element of absurdity.†
Chpt 43-45
- Hence Bathsheba lived in a perception that her purposes were broken off.†
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
- Honesty and pure conviction suggested the remark, unaccompanied by any perception that it might have been adopted by blunt flattery to soothe and win her.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(perception as in: perception of injustice) a belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way