All 5 Uses of
perceive
in
Heart of Darkness
- He struck a match, and I perceived that this young aristocrat had not only a silver-mounted dressing-case but also a whole candle all to himself.†
Chpt 1
- I looked at them with a swift quickening of interest—not because it occurred to me I might be eaten by them before very long, though I own to you that just then I perceived—in a new light, as it were—how unwholesome the pilgrims looked, and I hoped, yes, I positively hoped, that my aspect was not so—what shall I say?†
Chpt 2
- It was the only thing of the kind; but as we opened the reach more, I perceived it was the head of a long sandbank, or rather of a chain of shallow patches stretching down the middle of the river.†
Chpt 2
- You would have perceived directly then how completely she was out of it.†
Chpt 2 *
- But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(perceive as in: perceive the system as unfair) to view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion