All 3 Uses of
perceptible
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The unexpected quality of this confession, wrung from her, and not volunteered, shook him perceptibly.†
Chpt 5 *perceptibly = in a manner that is capable of being noticed
- The wife of Angel Clare put her hand to her brow, and felt its curve, and the edges of her eye-sockets perceptible under the soft skin, and thought as she did so that a time would come when that bone would be bare.†
Chpt 5perceptible = capable of being noticed
- The winding road downwards became just visible to her under the wan starlight as she followed it, and soon she paced a soil so contrasting with that above it that the difference was perceptible to the tread and to the smell.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough