All 11 Uses
apparent
in
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
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- And here they came.... And so it was that the schooner Sweet Judy sailed though a rain forest, with Captain Roberts, inspired to instant creativity, making up a new verse explicably missing from the original hymn: "Oh Thou who built'st the mountains high, To be the pillars of the sky—" He wasn't totally certain about built'st, but bidd'st was apparently acceptable—"Who gave the mighty forests birth"—branches cracked like gunshots under the keel, thick vines snatched at what remained of the masts— "And made a Garden of the Earth"—fruit and leaves rained down on the deck, but a shudder meant that a broken tree had ripped away part of the hull, spilling the ballast—"We pray to Thee to stretch T†
Chpt 1.apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- Daphne didn't know much about the old woman, but apparently a young man had smiled at her on her twenty-first birthday and she'd gone straight to bed with an attack of the vapors and stayed there, still gently vaporizing, until she completely vaporized at the age of eighty-six, apparently because her body was fed up with having nothing to do.†
Chpt 4.
- Daphne didn't know much about the old woman, but apparently a young man had smiled at her on her twenty-first birthday and she'd gone straight to bed with an attack of the vapors and stayed there, still gently vaporizing, until she completely vaporized at the age of eighty-six, apparently because her body was fed up with having nothing to do.†
Chpt 4.
- And it was while listening to two of the maids talking about Albert the stable boy and how naughty he was (a state of affairs they didn't entirely disapprove of, apparently, and that she was starting to suspect very strongly had nothing to do with how he looked after the horses) that she heard the argument in the dining room.†
Chpt 4.
- Well, there's the bishop—jolly decent chap, apparently.†
Chpt 4.
- He pointed to a large area of what was, apparently, land.†
Chpt 6.
- Apparently there were lesser gods here, though.†
Chpt 8.
- Apparently I'm dead—will you try to keep up!†
Chpt 8.
- She would have run toward it, but there was—by good fortune not apparent at the time—a Regrettable Example using its web as a trampoline and she had to ease her way past it with caution.†
Chpt 9. *
- Her father, well, he was a decent man but, well, this century was a game of empires, apparently, and no little island was allowed to belong to itself.†
Chpt 10.apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- "Apparently he was pushing the ball in and it rolled back onto his fingers," said Daphne.†
Chpt 12.
Definitions:
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(1)
(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)