preceived

Updated: May 22, 2025

Oblongs of light from the lamps at street-corners came swimming into the interior of the coupe and, thinning rapidly to lances, passed utterly, leaving greater darkness. And yet neither of these two last attendants at Jim Sheridan's funeral broke the silence. It was Mary who preceived the strangeness of it too late.

Booth Tarkington - The Turmoil, a novel

Even at such a time, had she known he was in the house, she would not have dared set her foot in that room. Gibbie, who had followed and entered behind her, preceived her hesitation, saw and recognized the back of the laird, knew that she was afraid of her father, and stood also waiting he know not what. "Eh!" he said to himself, "hers is no like mine! Nae mony has had fathers sae guid's mine."

George MacDonald - Sir Gibbie