All 15 Uses of
discern
in
Jude the Obscure
- V During the three or four succeeding years a quaint and singular vehicle might have been discerned moving along the lanes and by-roads near Marygreen, driven in a quaint and singular way.†
Part 1
- He looked closely, and could just discern in the damp dust the imprints of their feet as they had stood locked in each other's arms.†
Part 1 *
- They were, in fact, on one of the summits of the county, and the distant landscape around Christminster could be discerned from where they lay.†
Part 1
- By the light of a match he could still discern what he had cut so enthusiastically so long ago: THITHER J. F. [with a pointing finger] The sight of it, unimpaired, within its screen of grass and nettles, lit in his soul a spark of the old fire.†
Part 1
- In the dim light and the baffling glare of the clerestory windows he could discern the opposite worshippers indistinctly only, but he saw that Sue was among them.†
Part 2
- Though the figures were many yards away from her the south-west sun brought them out so brilliantly against the green herbage that she could discern their contours with luminous distinctness; and being almost in a line between herself and the church towers of the city they awoke in her an oddly foreign and contrasting set of ideas by comparison.†
Part 2
- She was of an age which usually sleeps soundly, yet to-night she kept waking up, and every time she opened her eyes there was enough diffused light from the street to show her the white plaster figures, standing on the chest of drawers in odd contrast to their environment of text and martyr, and the Gothic-framed Crucifix-picture that was only discernible now as a Latin cross, the figure thereon being obscured by the shades.†
Part 2
- More lanterns were procured, and the river examined; and then, at last, on the opposite shore, which was open to the fields, some little boot-tracks were discerned in the mud, which left no doubt that the too excitable girl had waded through a depth of water reaching nearly to her shoulders—for this was the chief river of the county, and was mentioned in all the geography books with respect.†
Part 3
- Then, in illustration of what he had begun to discern as one of her redeeming characteristics there came promptly a note, which she must have written almost immediately he had gone from her: Forgive me for my petulance yesterday!†
Part 3
- Above it he could just discern the pinnacled tower of Trinity Church.†
Part 4
- Nevertheless Cartlett's view of the lovers' or married pair's conduct was undoubtedly that of the general crowd, whose attention seemed to be in no way attracted by what Arabella's sharpened vision discerned.†
Part 5
- The outlines of Rubric College also were discernible beyond the other, and the tower of a third farther off still.†
Part 6
- High overhead, above the chancel steps, Jude could discern a huge, solidly constructed Latin cross—as large, probably, as the original it was designed to commemorate.†
Part 6
- Sue's slim shape was only just discernible going towards the station.†
Part 6
- A silent, undiscerned resolve grew up in him, which gave him, if not strength, stability and calm.†
Part 6
Definition:
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(discern) to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious