All 7 Uses of
apparent
in
The Chrysalids
- It must have been a self-preserving instinct which had made us keep the thing to ourselves, for we'd no active feeling of danger — I had so little, in fact, that when Uncle Axel found me sitting behind a rick chatting apparently to myself, I made very little effort to dissemble.†
Chpt 4apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- The sounds like creeping footsteps never brought anything into view, the tapping was no prelude to anything at all, nor were the occasional dragging noises; they were beyond explanation, but also, luckily, apparently beyond manifestation, too, and at length, in spite of them all I found my eyes blinking as I swayed on my stool.†
Chpt 5
- Apparently words eluded her.†
Chpt 7 *
- The man shook his head doubtfully, but the fact that we had both apparently heard it seemed confirmation enough to make them all uncertain.†
Chpt 9
- It was one day early in June that, inspired apparently by a feeling for adventure, she did two things she knew to be forbidden.†
Chpt 11
- So again we did our best to put up a barrier between ourselves and the apparently one-sided exchange that Petra was conducting in an excited fortissimo.†
Chpt 12
- Apparently they thought it was our main body; anyway, the result was a rout, at a cost of two or three wounded to us.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so