All 8 Uses of
susceptible
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- She, in fact, felt a reverence for the pictured visage, of which only a far-descended and time-stricken virgin could be susceptible; and this forbidding scowl was the innocent result of her near-sightedness, and an effort so to concentrate her powers of vision as to substitute a firm outline of the object instead of a vague one.†
Chpt 2
- A susceptible observer, at any rate, might have regarded it as affording very little evidence of the general benignity of soul whereof it purported to be the outward reflection.†
Chpt 8 *
- And if the observer chanced to be ill-natured, as well as acute and susceptible, he would probably suspect that the smile on the gentleman's face was a good deal akin to the shine on his boots, and that each must have cost him and his boot-black, respectively, a good deal of hard labor to bring out and preserve them.†
Chpt 8
- Indeed, what with the pleasant summer evening, and the sympathy of this little circle of not unkindly souls, it was perhaps natural that a character so susceptible as Clifford's should become animated, and show itself readily responsive to what was said around him.†
Chpt 10
- This was a freedom essential to the health even of a character so little susceptible of morbid influences as that of Phoebe.†
Chpt 12
- What sense, meaning, or moral, for example, such as even ghost-stories should be susceptible of, can be traced in the ridiculous legend, that, at midnight, all the dead Pyncheons are bound to assemble in this parlor?†
Chpt 18
- Their susceptible nerves took an indefinite alarm from what they had overheard.†
Chpt 19
- Their flight will throw the worst coloring over this event of which it is susceptible.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
easily influenced or harmed
or:
capable of being treated in a particular way
or:
capable of being treated in a particular way