Example Sentences

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And scanning the scene with a stern indecision, He spread his dark wings, with intuitive cries, And sped, till acute and inquisitive vision Discerned but a movable speck in the skies.

From Mountain idylls, and Other Poems by King, Alfred Castner

To disentangle one clear wish Not of her sex, she sought; And womanish to womanish Discerned in lighted thought.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

Had not the press with all its hundred eyes Discerned the wolf beneath the sheep's disguise And raised the cry upon him, he to-day Would lack your company, and you would lack his pay.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

The saint, up-gazing through the dew Of pity brimming o'er his eyes, Discerned in Heav'n's remotest blue The Son of God lean from the skies.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various

At times on his pathetic face A look of perfect rapture shone, Intent on some celestial chords, Discerned by him alone; And sometimes he would smile and pause, As if receiving loud applause.

From Poems by Stoddard, John L. (John Lawson)