1 Edmund did not discern any symptoms of regret, and thought his father a little unreasonable in supposing the first three or four days could produce any.
2 But the magistrate was half blind and half childish, so he couldn't reasonably be expected to discern what other people did.
3 They went by her, and at the moment of passing appeared to discern her dusky form.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 4 On the further side of a table bearing candles she could faintly discern faces, and that was all.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 5 Looking from one of them he could discern a pale, tragic face watching him drive away.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery" 6 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 HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 7 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 HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 8 I seemed to discern some signs of emotion upon the butler's white face.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 9 Vaguely I could discern the black bank of the trees and the lighter expanse of the moor, for the moon was behind the clouds.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 10 There was no lamp near, and the window was thick with dust, so that we could only just discern each other's figures within.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 11 It appalled her, nevertheless, to discern here, again, a shadowy reflection of the evil that had existed in herself.
12 All this while Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, and was shocked, as well as wonder-smitten, to discern what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN 13 He must discern thee in thy true character.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN 14 By their uncertain light she thought she could discern it to be drawn by four horses; and this, while it told the excess of her poor mother's alarm, gave some explanation to such unexpected rapidity.
15 Under the circumstances, I felt that Joe could hardly fail to discern in the pale young gentleman, an appropriate passenger to be put into the black velvet coach; therefore, I said nothing of him.