All 35 Uses of
apparent
in
The Return of the Native
- The spot was, indeed, a near relation of night, and when night showed itself an apparent tendency to gravitate together could be perceived in its shades and the scene.†
Chpt 1
- He had neither whisker nor moustache, which allowed the soft curves of the lower part of his face to be apparent.†
Chpt 1
- This was not the repose of actual stagnation, but the apparent repose of incredible slowness.†
Chpt 1
- On the door being opened she perceived at the end of the van an extemporized couch, around which was hung apparently all the drapery that the reddleman possessed, to keep the occupant of the little couch from contact with the red materials of his trade.†
Chpt 1
- The sleeper apparently thought so too, for the next moment she opened her own.†
Chpt 1
- What she uttered was a lengthened sighing, apparently at something in her mind which had led to her presence here.†
Chpt 1
- Like the summer condition of the place around her, she was an embodiment of the phrase "a populous solitude"—apparently so listless, void, and quiet, she was really busy and full.†
Chpt 1
- But her hope was apparently centred upon him; and dismissing his regrets Venn determined to aid her to be happy in her own chosen way.†
Chpt 1
- Though these shaggy hills were apparently so solitary, several keen round eyes were always ready on such a wintry morning as this to converge upon a passer-by.†
Chpt 1
- He was three years younger than herself, but apparently not backward for his age.†
Chpt 2
- With no apparent effort or backwardness she came in, beginning— "Here come I, a Turkish Knight, Who learnt in Turkish land to fight; I'll fight this man with courage bold: If his blood's hot I'll make it cold!"†
Chpt 2
- Now, since Egdon was populated with heath-croppers and furze-cutters rather than with sheep and shepherds, and the downs where most of the latter were to be found lay some to the north, some to the west of Egdon, his reason for camping about there like Israel in Zin was not apparent.†
Chpt 2
- "Good morning, miss," said the reddleman, taking off his cap of hareskin, and apparently bearing her no ill-will from recollection of their last meeting.†
Chpt 2
- They sat down to the repeated meal, and he went on in a low, anxious voice, apparently imagining that Thomasin had not yet come downstairs, "What's this I have heard about Thomasin and Mr. Wildeve?"†
Chpt 2
- Mrs. Yeobright inquired, turning to the reddleman a face in which a strange strife of wishes, for and against, was apparent.†
Chpt 2
- Mrs. Yeobright spoke calmly, but the force of feeling behind the words was but too apparent to one who knew her as well as her son did.†
Chpt 3
- It incidentally showed that her apparent languor did not arise from lack of force.†
Chpt 3
- In spite of Eustacia's apparent willingness to wait through the period of an unpromising engagement, till he should be established in his new pursuit, he could not but perceive at moments that she loved him rather as a visitant from a gay world to which she rightly belonged than as a man with a purpose opposed to that recent past of his which so interested her.†
Chpt 3
- Yeobright did not fear for his own part; but recollection of Eustacia's old speech about the evanescence of love, now apparently forgotten by her, sometimes caused him to ask himself a question; and he recoiled at the thought that the quality of finiteness was not foreign to Eden.†
Chpt 4
- "No, Clym!" she said, the slight hopefulness previously apparent in her face going off again, and leaving her worse than before.†
Chpt 4
- The rebellious sadness that was rather too apparent when she sat indoors without a bonnet was cloaked and softened by her outdoor attire, which always had a sort of nebulousness about it, devoid of harsh edges anywhere; so that her face looked from its environment as from a cloud, with no noticeable lines of demarcation between flesh and clothes.†
Chpt 4
- By degrees they discerned coming towards them a pair of human figures, apparently of the male sex.†
Chpt 4
- He gave her a full account of Clym's affliction, and of the state in which he was living; then, referring to Thomasin, touched gently upon the apparent sadness of her days.†
Chpt 4
- She ascended, and sat down under their shade to recover herself, and to consider how best to break the ground with Eustacia, so as not to irritate a woman underneath whose apparent indolence lurked passions even stronger and more active than her own.†
Chpt 4
- The contrast between the sleeper's appearance and Wildeve's at this moment was painfully apparent to Eustacia, Wildeve being elegantly dressed in a new summer suit and light hat; and she continued: "Ah! you don't know how differently he appeared when I first met him, though it is such a little while ago.†
Chpt 4
- To her astonishment Clym lay precisely as Wildeve and herself had left him, his sleep apparently unbroken.†
Chpt 4
- "I wish I might go on by myself," he resumed, fearing, apparently, that he was to be pressed into some unpleasant service.†
Chpt 4
- "What a fool you were, Eustacia!"
"In what way?" she said, lifting her eyes in apparent calmness.
Chpt 4 *apparent = appearing as something, but not necessarily so
- For two successive years his mistress had seemed to take pleasure in lighting a bonfire on the bank overlooking the valley; but this year she had apparently quite forgotten the day and the customary deed.†
Chpt 5
- These she began to thrust into the image in all directions, with apparently excruciating energy.†
Chpt 5
- "Only in name apparently," said Clym with rising excitement.†
Chpt 5
- Its origin was unmistakable—it was the fall of a body into the stream in the adjoining mead, apparently at a point near the weir.†
Chpt 5
- They ran to where Venn was, and helped him in lifting out the apparently drowned persons, separating them, and laying them out upon the grass.†
Chpt 5
- It was only when they had left the room and stood upon the landing that the true state of his mind was apparent.†
Chpt 5
- He was so distressed by this new complexity that when the enthusiastic brass band arrived and struck up, which it did about five o'clock, with apparently wind enough among its members to blow down his house, he withdrew from his rooms by the back door, went down the garden, through the gate in the hedge, and away out of sight.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so