All 16 Uses
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The Deerslayer
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- Turn after turn, however, was passed, and the canoe had dropped down with the current some little distance, when Hurry caught a bush, and arrested its movement so suddenly and silently as to denote some unusual motive for the act.†
Chpt 3
- On the contrary, his reception was such as to denote not only gratification, but a pleasure, mingled with a little disappointment at his not having made his appearance some days sooner.†
Chpt 4
- "If this be true, Master Hutter," said Hurry, whose change of countenance denoted how serious he deemed the information, though it did not denote any unmanly alarm, "if this be true, your ark is in a most misfortunate position, for, though the cover did deceive Deerslayer and myself, it would hardly be overlooked by a full-blooded Injin, who was out seriously in s'arch of scalps!"†
Chpt 4
- "If this be true, Master Hutter," said Hurry, whose change of countenance denoted how serious he deemed the information, though it did not denote any unmanly alarm, "if this be true, your ark is in a most misfortunate position, for, though the cover did deceive Deerslayer and myself, it would hardly be overlooked by a full-blooded Injin, who was out seriously in s'arch of scalps!"†
Chpt 4
- The reader will readily understand, therefore, how intense must have been the expectation of the young man, as he sat in his solitary canoe, endeavoring to catch the smallest sound that might denote the course of things on shore.†
Chpt 6
- Although the young man leaned forward to listen, holding his breath and condensing every faculty in the single sense of hearing, not another sound reached his ears to denote the vicinity of human beings.†
Chpt 6
- Here the savage advanced with confidence, his hand extended, his face smiling, and his whole bearing denoting amity and respect.†
Chpt 7 *
- When he rose to take breath, it was at the distance of several yards from the canoe, and the hasty glance he threw behind him denoted how much he feared the arrival of a fatal messenger from the rifle of his foe.†
Chpt 7
- The last number denoted his betrothed, whom, with the poetry and truth of nature, he described by laying his hand on his own heart.†
Chpt 9
- No success rewarded this little blockade, however, neither appearance nor sound denoting the passage of the canoe.†
Chpt 9
- A much greater degree of vigilance than had been previously required was now necessary; and the circumstance that an aged woman was on watch also denoted some special grounds of alarm.†
Chpt 16
- Unlike the Serpent, whose imagination had acted through his traditions until he was ready to perceive an artificial, in a natural stillness, the others saw nothing to apprehend in a tranquility that, in truth, merely denoted the repose of inanimate objects.†
Chpt 19
- A wider circuit than common denoted that the messenger had passed through the air at no great distance from the bird, though it missed its object.†
Chpt 25
- No one betrayed feeling, and an indifferent observer, beyond the extreme watchfulness of the sentinels, would have detected no extraordinary movement or sensation to denote the real state of things.†
Chpt 27
- "My brother has had a long run on the hills, and a pleasant sail on the water," returned Rivenoak more mildly, smiling, at the same time, in a way that his listener knew denoted pacific intentions.†
Chpt 28
- A young Indian came bounding through the Huron ranks, leaping into the very centre of the circle, in a way to denote the utmost confidence, or a temerity bordering on foolhardiness.†
Chpt 30
Definitions:
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(1)
(denotes) means literally; or indicates
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)