1 Nothing but the froth of the waves could be discerned in the pool below.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 2 They went by her, and at the moment of passing appeared to discern her dusky form.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 3 Looking from one of them he could discern a pale, tragic face watching him drive away.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery" 4 He discerned the young girl's form in the passage, and said, "Thomasin, then, has reached home."
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 5 On the further side of a table bearing candles she could faintly discern faces, and that was all.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 6 By degrees they discerned coming towards them a pair of human figures, apparently of the male sex.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 7 At length Thomasin reached a hollow and began to discern through the rain a faint blotted radiance, which presently assumed the oblong form of an open door.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 8 Yeobright could now also discern the floating body, though but indistinctly; and imagining from Wildeve's plunge that there was life to be saved he was about to leap after.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 9 Yeobright strained his eyes across the dark-green patch beyond the paling, and near the black form of the Maypole he discerned a shadowy figure, sauntering idly up and down.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward 10 At length he discerned, a long distance in front of him, a moving spot, which appeared to be a vehicle, and it proved to be going the same way as that in which he himself was journeying.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 11 The mist had now so far collapsed that the tips of the trees and bushes around his house could just be discerned, as if boring upwards through a vast white cobweb which cloaked them from the day.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 12 When he had reclined for some considerable time, gloomily pondering, he discerned above the ferns a drawn bonnet of white silk approaching from the left, and Yeobright knew directly that it covered the head of her he loved.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues