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1  When he talked, she heard the same voice, and discerned the same mind.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
2  Anne sometimes fancied she discerned him at a distance, but he never came.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
3  His tone, his expressions, his choice of subject, his knowing where to stop; it was all the operation of a sensible, discerning mind.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
4  These were thoughts, with their attendant visions, which occupied and flurried her too much to leave her any power of observation; and she passed along the room without having a glimpse of him, without even trying to discern him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
5  There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal, and Lady Russell had been less gifted in this part of understanding than her young friend.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
6  From his wife's account of him she could discern Mr Smith to have been a man of warm feelings, easy temper, careless habits, and not strong understanding, much more amiable than his friend, and very unlike him, led by him, and probably despised by him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
7  Mr Elliot talks unreservedly to Colonel Wallis of his views on you, which said Colonel Wallis, I imagine to be, in himself, a sensible, careful, discerning sort of character; but Colonel Wallis has a very pretty silly wife, to whom he tells things which he had better not, and he repeats it all to her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21