How To Use Perceptible In A Sentence

The investigation revealed that it was likely that the airplane gradually accumulated a thin, rough glaze/mixed ice coverage on the leading edge deicing boot surfaces, possibly with ice ridge formation on the leading edge upper surface, as the airplane descended from 7000 feet mean sea level (msl) to 4000 feet msl in icing conditions, which may have been imperceptible to the pilots. WN.com - Business News
His voice sunk to a barely perceptible level.
The film was edited by a skilled technician so that the joints are imperceptible.
Then, all of a sudden rising from her chair, she went over to the jug of roses, which she had placed on the writing-table, bent over the flowers with a kind of perceptible hesitation. and as suddenly came back to her seat. Maurice Guest
Are there effluvia analogous to what we call odour: effluvia of extreme subtlety, absolutely imperceptible to us, yet capable of stimulating a sense-organ far more sensitive than our own? Social Life in the Insect World

These immortal ideas, things barely perceptible are the most precious things of life.
The price increase has had no perceptible effect on sales.
The slight change in the taste was imperceptible to most people.
Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
For example, the dark blue triangles on the pink background of the rosettes are barely perceptible in the old photograph and may be missed entirely if the viewer is not aware of the value shift.
There is a perceptible change in the party's outlook which will soon percolate down to the basic worker.
Luke slides his offset spatula under each one and then, as he goes to retract it, adds the little flourish, the barely perceptible twist of the wrist, that makes his work look simultaneously more mechanical and more balletic. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
The law now seems clear, however, that so long as the change is gradual and imperceptible the doctrine applies.
There also is a perceptible delay when downshifting from fourth to third.
Counterpoint is likely to be most immediately perceptible when the distinct voices use the same material in close proximity.
A state receptible of love, and perceptible of wisdom, makes a youth into a husband, 321. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
Evan's barely perceptible nod was his only answer.
Above me, two white clouds drifted with imperceptible motion across a luminous blue sky. DOUBTING THOMAS
There was an almost imperceptible pause as she gathered her breath to speak.
They had no perceptible impact on German opinion, though the leaflet raids gave aircrew some essential training in night navigation.
Any change came through slow imperceptible evolution.
It was then perceptible that he halted slightly in his walk; and, indeed, he had been lame from his birth.
If that's not the case - well, it's a lot of money to spend on what, for me, turned out to be an almost imperceptible difference.
Her face was almost imperceptible backed by the last remnants of the day's light. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
You put things out in the world hoping that it might be relevant to someone, but these things are subtle, imperceptible.
As objects well known in the philosophical treatises (bstan-bcos-la grags-pa), sensibilia are thus the smallest spatial units of physical phenomena that are perceptible by the senses in one moment. Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Non-Gelug Presentation
Interviewers show ability to transmit a complete, detailed, subvocally perceptible answer co-occurrent to the question.
perceptible only as unaccountable influences that hinder progress
After the summer solstice, although the days are shortening in consequence of the sun's recession, their diminution is for some time scarcely perceptible, and as the days are still much longer than the nights, more heat is imparted to the earth than is lost by night-radiation. Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, For the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared under the Authority of the City Council by Frederick A. Ford
They are highly perceptible to ratepayers and they promote accountability.
The pockets of the farmers, on the other hand, will reluctantly yield but scanty supplies, in the unwelcome shape of impositions on their houses and lands; and personal property is too precarious and invisible a fund to be laid hold of in any other way than by the imperceptible agency of taxes on consumption.
This would, however, be imperceptible so long as their lengths were not measured by some accurate mechanical time-measurer such as a clepsydra, sandglass, pendulum, or spring clock. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
I was in want of boots, of clothes, of the whole human varnish that makes a man perceptible. Andersen's Fairy Tales
By observances I mean the tiny perceptible changes in the season, the shadows and mist, the leaves and air.
All of a sudden, there is a barely perceptible change: critical party mass. Times, Sunday Times
The great breadth and the shallows near either jaw prevent the rain-floods being perceptible unless instruments are used, and "hydrometry," still in an imperfect state, was little to be depended upon in the days when European ideas concerning the Congo River were formed. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
he continued after a perceptible pause
His head moved in an almost imperceptible nod.
Whether these odoriferous particles attend the perspirable matter in consequence of the increased action of the capillary glands, and can properly be called excrementitous; that is, whether any thing is eliminated, which could be hurtful if retained; or whether they may only contain some of the essential oil of the animal; like the smell, which adheres to one's hand on stroking the hides of some dogs; or like the effluvia, which is left upon the ground, from the feet of men and other creatures; and is perceptible by the nicer organs of the dogs, which hunt them, may admit of doubt. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
And, thirdly, which is the most important point of all, did the same mill-pond contract in its dimensions by gradual and imperceptible stages, or did it sink into the present narrow channel of the Apple-pie, by any violent and sudden disruption of its banks? Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Castlereagh, Gwydir, and the Dumaresq, with the many minor interfluent waters, which doubtless takes place upon those low levels, forms one or more noble rivers, which may flow across the continent by an almost imperceptible declivity of country to the north of north-west coasts, on certain parts of which, recent surveys have discovered to us extensive openings, by which the largest accumulations of waters might escape to the sea. Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete
Even at this distance the flopping flatness of his cap, the bright brown leather at the top of his calves, and the chequering of his stockings were perceptible. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
As in so many films, its barely perceptible movement conveys exactly what her character is thinking. Times, Sunday Times
The alternatives are various forms of death - quick, slow, agonising, or imperceptible.
No distinct difference was perceptible; certainly none in the degree of incurvation; but the incurvation round the bits of sponge lasted rather longer, as might perhaps have been expected from the sponge remaining damp and supplying nitrogenous matter for a longer time. Insectivorous Plants
If the paranoid imagines that everyone he meets is involved in a nebulous pattern of malign intentions, in his accident scene the harm was literal and the direct cause perceptible.
perceptible changes in behavior
There was a barely perceptible pause, and then the meeting continued as if nobody had said anything untoward. Times, Sunday Times
Such negation refers to nothing that is sensibly perceptible.
Morphology is the part of the language in which the grammaticalness of a language system becomes clearly perceptible, therefore it is especially important when we try to assess the level of language skills.
The past year has seen a perceptible improvement in working standards.
The beauty of demographic change via birthrate is that it’s not readily perceptible in the short term, unless you start walking the streets of Southall and Cirencester counting pushchairs. Archive 2005-05-01
A barely perceptible delay as you gaze through it.
On the Garden-side it is bordered by a shadowy, secluded grove, with winding paths among its boskiness, affording many a peep at the river's imperceptible lapse and tranquil gleam; and on the opposite shore stands the priory-church, with its churchyard full of shrubbery and tombstones. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
Some authors extend the notion of writing even further and call terminus scriptus “a term perceptible by senses other than haering” (terminus alio sensu quam auditu perceptibilis) (Peter Margallus, Log. utriusque scholia, Medieval Semiotics
I can't make sense out of debate for the sake of debate when more tangible and perceptible issues of our own lives are left unspoken of.
Almost imperceptible on screen, it is actually made up of tiny chickens' feet and is repeated on the buttons of her dress.
The final dialogue, Imperceptible, is a darkly humorous piece of irony.
Stone looked at Sarah inquiringly; she responded with an almost imperceptible nod. WORST FEARS REALIZED
His lips curved in a barely perceptible smile.
His head moved in an almost imperceptible nod.
Yet the incursions on free speech can be insidious and imperceptible.
With a touch imperceptible as dewfall, she touched her brother's mind and sharpened his inner longing with restlessness. Stormwarden
The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster. A Study of Shakespeare
The technology was so named because it transmits stolen data in jittery chunks — by adding nearly imperceptible processing delays after a keystroke, and for the jitters such a bug could inspire in anyone with secure data to safeguard. JitterBugs: A New Computer Threat | Impact Lab
Therefore one kind of substance can be defined and formulated, i.e. the composite kind, whether it be perceptible or intelligible; but the primary parts of which this consists cannot be defined, since a definitory formula predicates something of something, and one part of the definition must play the part of matter and the other that of form. Metaphysics
Two were eating out of the bowls that refilled so slowly that it was imperceptible, and two were eating out of regular bowls.
An imperceptible swelling indicates the place where the real stomach lies within; but in another sense one may call the oesophagus, and I might almost add the mouth itself, its stomach. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
There is a species of huckleberry common to the piny lands from the commencement of the Columbian valley to the seacoast; it rises to the hight of 6 or 8 feet. is a simple branching some what defuse stem; the main body or trunk is cilindric and of a dark brown, while the colateral branches are green smooth, squar, and put forth a number of alternate branches of the same colour and form from the two horizontal sides only. the fruit is a small deep perple berry which the natives inform us is very good. the leaf is thin of a pale green and small being 3/4 of an inch in length and 3/8 in width; oval terminateing more accutely at the apex than near the insertion of the footstalk which is at the base; veined, nearly entire, serrate but so slightly so that it is scarcely perceptible; footstalk short and there position with rispect to each other is alternate and two ranked, proceeding from the horizontal sides of the bough only. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
A small current whirled around us, the giant fan palms nearby quivered in the almost imperceptible breeze and tropical birds whooped, cackled and whistled among the trees.
She has 20% hearing in her left ear and 80% in her right, but this is barely perceptible because her speech is unaffected and she lip-reads (she does not use a hearing aid).
Does ESPN place sensors that measure "skin conductivity" and, says ESPN researcher Artie Bulgrin, also check for "almost imperceptible amount of perspiration that you might not feel but the probes can identify"? Pencils ready? Let's get quizzical about TV
An imperceptible breeze forced the leaves of a regiment of birch trees into anxious quaking.
Not even in Spain have I tasted a better tortilla: the potatoes and onions sweated to fondant softness, the egg almost imperceptible and just gently holding them.
Louis made an almost imperceptible gesture to Annette, who rose to her feet. DOUBLE DECEIT
The slight change in the taste was imperceptible to most people.
Her foreign accent was barely perceptible.
The piece slows symphonic time so that movement is barely perceptible.
Such changes are imperceptible to even the best-trained eye.
Any Object we see is Abstract, because it is composed of an infinite number of indefinable, unrecognizable, nonfigurative, shadowy, intangible, imperceptible and undetectable 'points' or 'areas' and all these areas do not, and cannot, allow any human being to perceive them or relate to them in any meaningful manner. Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
The impact would be nearly imperceptible at first, but it'd be there, and significant enough to gum things up.
There was an almost imperceptible pause as she gathered her breath to speak.
The imperceptible and incohesive elements that swim the airy seas, or sleep in their gulfs, or linger in space, are in harmony with the plan of God and the scope of creation. Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
Words refer to something; perception (aesthesis in Greek) involves perceptibles; knowledge requires a known. Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology
The forming of football consciousness needs longtime imperceptible edification to permeation.
(Though I can assure you it was a barely perceptible 'perk' - I really was incredibly full.) Where's the beef?
There was a barely perceptible movement in his right arm.
The stories featured mainly attractive young people with no perceptible acting talent or experience disporting themselves in the buff.
Some of the well-known sledgers of the earlier years had large walrus moustaches, which made movement of their lips imperceptible.
I noticed only the faintest of sound from the rears and did not detect any perceptible subwoofer support.
When the basis of the lavas of the Malpays changes from pitchstone to obsidian, its colour is paler, and is mixed with grey; in this case, the feldspar passes by imperceptible gradations from the common to the vitreous. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
And we have not seen any kind of perceptible change. CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2005
Then, suddenly, there was a barely perceptible hush. Times, Sunday Times
Imperfect as we know we are, we especially value the hand-fitted custom gun or the hand-stitched leather holster because we see the tiny goofs, the nearly imperceptible errors.
She was hurt and insulted and angry but at the same time an imperceptible, almost subliminal lightness had begun to form around her heart. SANDS OF TIME
I think there's an imperceptible incline, which makes sense as I was following the river upstream, so no cruising.
The Tower on the Hill, that is the meaning of the word "Dunster," and the name fittingly describes it; for it dominates many miles of beautiful and fertile country, and stands feudally above the village, perceptible from every angle of the street, at once a guardian and a menace. Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
I was leading the group, hacking through the undergrowth with my trusty knife when all of a sudden we heard a sound, barely perceptible, like a whiffling in the undergrowth.
There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime.
The red line in the graphs represents the amount of latency beyond which audio dropouts are perceptible to humans.
But as the inflammation is seldom I suppose confined to the upper part of the trachea only, but exists at the same time in other parts of the lungs, and as no inflammation of the tonsils is generally perceptible, the uncouth name of cynanche trachealis should be changed for _peripneumonia trachialis_. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
With the exercise saber the touch with the point is hardly perceptible and would not weaken the instructor's cut.
My shadow, briefly cutting sunlight, changes the land's chemistry in imperceptible ways that make us one.
taken distributively, their rights are imperceptible
It is at least simple enough for the simplest of critics to apply or misapply: whenever they see or suspect an inequality or an incongruity which may be wholly imperceptible to eyes uninured to the use of their spectacles, they assume at once the presence of another workman, the intrusion of a stranger's hand. A Study of Shakespeare
A slight almost imperceptible vibration of the vessel was felt.
The roses in the garden of the aunts were covered by a thin, barely perceptible layer of dust.
In this awful moment of suspense, which seemingly but preceded the disuniting of soul and body, each of the young men turned a breathless look of horror upon the old hunter, such as landsmen in a terrible gale at sea would turn upon the commander of the vessel; but, save an almost imperceptible quiver of the lips, not a muscle of the now stern countenance of Boone changed. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life
On these repeat visits, subtle qualities gradually reveal themselves which were initially almost imperceptible.
No two persons can ever, in this sense, perceive the same item: nothing at all is publicly perceptible.
A vast white bowl of broth thickened with very finely processed but still perceptible vegetables, interspersed with chunky meatballs and big pasta shells.
Direct confiscation would complete this quickly, often at one stroke, while _confiscation through taxation permits the disappearance of capitalists 'property through a long-drawn-out process, proceeding in the exact degree in which the new order is established and its benevolent influence made perceptible. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
The shrug is hardly perceptible, the smile almost apologetic.
demanded Dalziel, moving from unction to abrasion with no perceptible interval. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Such changes are imperceptible to even the best-trained eye.
Interrupted by an audible gasp of shock from a spinster-appearing female sunning herself hard by and angularly in the sand in a swimming suit monstrously unbeautiful, Lee Barton was aware of an involuntary and almost perceptible stiffening on the part of his wife. THE KANAKA SURF
Grateful for the opportunity to swing past, hold the door for them, go up to my office and do the work I can to make their profs 'jobs easier. lim-i-nal \ˈli-mə-nəl\ (adj) Latin limin -, limen threshold 1: of or relating to a sensory threshold 2: barely perceptible 3: of, relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition Liminal
an imperceptible nod
Jean affected a somewhat dégagé manner and a perceptible swagger.
In the case of sensation, the capacity for perception in the sense organ is actualized by the operation on it of the perceptible object.
But change is subtle and sometimes imperceptible.
The recording angel had probably noted the fact of her novelism among her virtues, but she had an imperceptible earthly public. This Is the End
His lips curved in a barely perceptible smile.
We are a profoundly egalitarian society, and the roots of this are perceptible from the very origins. The Canadian Experience: Lessons from the Canadian History Project
Her foreign accent was barely perceptible.
From the way he the expulsion of how the haleness were perceptible to the phoronid we positioning in the bio, it all locale. Rational Review
This description does not only comprehend the bowels, bones, tendons, veins, nerves, and arteries, but every muscle and every ligature, which is a composition of fibres, that are so many imperceptible tubes or pipes interwoven on all sides with invisible glands or strainers. The Coverley Papers
She heard a faint, almost imperceptible cry.
Astrophysicists have been trying to detect such ‘gravitational waves,’ but the ripples from all but the, most violent cataclysms in the universe are imperceptible.
Even the degeneration of a medusoid from a free-swimming animal to a mere brood-sac (gonophore) is not sudden and saltatory, but occurs by imperceptible modifications throughout hundreds of years, as we can learn from the numerous stages of the process of degeneration persisting at the same time in different species. Evolution in Modern Thought
I strained my ears and was about to give up when the faint sound of a rumbling engine became perceptible.
The astringency of tannins is most perceptible on the inner cheeks; the heat of the alcohol burns in the back of the throat.
Such changes are imperceptible to even the best-trained eye.
I knew enough about poisons to be certain that the flask did not contain arsenic or strychnine, but that left a hundred others, from aconitine, which would kill with an imperceptible amount, to — “Ten seconds.” A Monstrous Regiment of Women
The inconvenience arising from a scarcity of money would have been of very short duration; for the mutilated pieces would have been detained only till they could be told and weighed; they would then have been sent back into circulation, and the recoinage would have taken place gradually and without any perceptible suspension or disturbance of trade. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4
easily perceptible sounds
This energy is imperceptible, unextended, unfigured, yet it is by no means a mere logical or mental necessity or associative tendency. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
He gave a barely perceptible nod as if he had read her mind and applauded her attitude.
The price increase has had no perceptible effect on sales.
You start to understand why, even given late-Romantic levels of dissonance, atonality so bothered the d'Indys of the world — dissonance was OK as long as the movement from key center to key center remained purposeful and perceptible, but lose that modulation, and things start to seem random. Mod squad
So the year has marched on into October and in Scotland at least the change in the calendar has coincided with a perceptible change in the season.
There was a rainbow, but the sky was still so bright that it was scarcely perceptible. Times, Sunday Times
At first glance the introduction of lapped dovetails for veneered furniture is curious because it entails more work for no perceptible advantage.
The prelude of the first suite was played dizzyingly fast but without any perceptible regular pulse, as was that of the fifth suite.
But everything was right with a succulent crab cake jam-packed with real crab and without perceptible bread binding and with plump littleneck clams casino, warm under a dust of seasoned panko.
The demoralization of the narcotist is not, like that of the drunkard, rapid, violent, and palpable; but gradual, insidious, perceptible at first only to close observers and intimate friends. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
He had entered a supersensual world, in which he could measure nothing except by chance collisions of movements imperceptible to his senses, perhaps even imperceptible to his instruments, but perceptible to each other, and so to some known ray at the end of the scale. The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
As on previous days, individua and small groups of soldiers could be seen patrolling the streets, but no tension was perceptible. ANC Daily News Briefing
Without ascriptions of meaning, formal and analytical knowledge is inert, unactualised, imperceptible.
Whatever he had done and might still be doing to the breagar was neither visible nor perceptible. Flinx's Folly
'' plenum '' occupied by an ether, which, imperceptible to the senses, is capable of transmitting forces on material bodies immersed in it. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
She heard a faint, almost imperceptible cry.
This time is the time elapsed before any perceptible change in tension can be measured after peptide exposure.
Therefore, to distinguish between what appertains to the primary polarity, Levity-Gravity, on the one hand, and their visible effects in the secondary polarity of the colours, on the other, we shall henceforth reserve the term darkness and, with it, lightness for instances where the perceptible components of the respective colours are concerned, while speaking of Dark and Light where reference is made to the generating primary polarity. Man or Matter
Past, future, and present, these three times are imperceptible, an ignorance or nescience that is not real, only false.
Digital watermarking technology allows users to embed a digital code in audio, images, video and printed documents that is imperceptible during normal use but readable by computers and software.
The water had a suspiciously transparent colour and a slight trace of brackishness, but the latter was scarcely perceptible. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
English psychologists call an automatist, which is to say, a person who appears at times to lend her organism to beings imperceptible to our senses, in order to enable them to manifest themselves to us. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research
The only exception was Wu Sun - fu , who just parted his lips in a barely perceptible smile.
All these efforts have resulted in a perceptible reduction of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) by nearly 2%, which can lead to a risk reduction of 76% in retinopathy and 34% in albuminuria in persons living with diabetes. 'Diabetes doctor is at your doorstep' in Chunampet villages
Already there's a perceptible change of light. Times, Sunday Times
From somewhere in the distance comes an ominous rumble of thunder, barely perceptible over the nearby lawnmower.
Gur would stand in the crowd of courtiers, his head bowed, his face blank; upon an imperceptible sign from Don Reba, he would step forward from the courtiers 'ranks and recite ultrapatriotic poems -- which, however, were greeted with nothing but secretly stifled yawns. Hard to be a god
Whatever the neurological effects of fluoride are exactly, Williams argues that the antifluoridationists lost the debate - at least for now - simply because the good effects of fluoride are more perceptible than the time-latent, sometimes merely "subclinical" neurological effects that apparently result from the ingestion of fluoride. Ethical Technology
In addition to cash, the specialists also received board and lodging, including heating and light, which ensured a perceptible increase in wages after 1770 when prices began to rise steeply.
Space, in Descartes 'view, is a' 'plenum' 'occupied by an ether, which, imperceptible to the senses, is capable of transmitting forces on material bodies immersed in it. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
She answered with an almost imperceptible nod of the head.
There was a barely perceptible movement in his right arm.
She must have heard of the three attainments and three excellences a thousand times, to judge by the expression—almost imperceptible, except around her nostrils—of scorn. Wildfire
It would be like counting up the least visible bits of a perceptible object.
If _ [Greek: ** anthropos] _ was to be pronounced in common conversation with a perceptible distinction of the length of the penultima as well as of the elevation of the antepenultima, why was not that long quantity also marked? Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This is what we all admit in practice; the smallest of our acts implies the belief in something perceptible which is wider and more durable than our astonished perceptions. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
A barely perceptible south-westerly helped Doug and Joyce to the mark, well ahead of Miles and Cathy.
Imperceptible Growth of the word sown in the heart, from its earliest stage of development to the ripest fruits of practical righteousness. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The mountain of trash seemed to stretch very far, then gradually without perceptible demarcation or boundary it became something else.
By appearance it's an almost imperceptible, narrow slot in the pavement that runs alongside a sidewalk from the bottom to the top of a hill.
The slight change in the taste was imperceptible to most people.
Clearly, three decades of feminist theory of representation have yet to have any perceptible impact on Balthus studies.
She stole a glance at him and he gave her an almost imperceptible nod.
Glamour figure he may be, brilliant sometimes he could be on the field, it was the barely perceptible action that often kept him apart. Times, Sunday Times
The reefs of the Pacific, the deep-sea soundings of the Atlantic, show that it is to the slow-growing coral and to the imperceptible animalcule, which lives its brief space and then adds its tiny shell to the muddy cairn left by its brethren and ancestors, that we must look as the agents in the formation of limestone and chalk, and not to hypothetical oceans saturated with calcareous salts and suddenly depositing them. Essays
Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque 'chivalry' doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth-century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives; and traces of its inflated language and other windy humbuggeries survive along with it. Life on the Mississippi
There must have been grooves cut into the metal - perceptible only by touch.
The transition is almost imperceptible.
There was an almost imperceptible shuffle on the stairs.
I was in want of boots, of clothes, of the whole human varnish that makes a man perceptible. Andersen's Fairy Tales
The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster. A Study of Shakespeare
The spirit of a jealous person is one of impurity, which takes on an evil quality that provokes real, perceptible damage to the envied person, animal or property.
The impact would be nearly imperceptible at first, but it'd be there, and significant enough to gum things up.
An imperceptible breeze forced the leaves of a regiment of birch trees into anxious quaking.
Selden's perceptible pause gave her time for a slight stir of surprise. The House of Mirth
While a changed mood may have been perceptible among the marchers, there was little to distinguish the message that came from the speakers' platforms from those offered in previous protests.
These efforts have brought about a perceptible change in the quality of these libraries.
The slight change in the taste was imperceptible to most people.
The difference is scarcely perceptible to the average reader.
The sense of ownership and belonging was not significant, but it was perceptible.
With the exercise saber the touch with the point is hardly perceptible and would not weaken the instructor's cut.
Sir Norman Lockyer interprets the observed phenomena as indicating the successive combinations, in varying proportions, of a very few original ingredients; [663] but no definite sign of their existence is perceptible; "protyle" seems likely long to evade recognition; and the only intelligible underlying principle for the reasonings employed -- that of "one line, one element" -- implies a throng beyond counting of formative material units. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
a perceptible sense of expectation in the court
Simultaneously, but disconnectedly, each finds himself changed by the funeral, from the moment of the funeral, and changing in ways both dramatic and imperceptible.

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