1 His attitude had been one of admiring spectatorship, and he would have been almost sorry to detect in her any emotional weakness which should interfere with the fulfilment of her aims.
2 Now that she had carried out her preposterous impulse to see what he was like, she was cold, she was as ready to detect familiarities as the virtuous Miss Ella Stowbody.
3 Hereby the casks are sought to be kept damply tight; while by the changed character of the withdrawn water, the mariners readily detect any serious leakage in the precious cargo.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 109. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin. 4 He could always detect the presence of anyone in a room.
5 When assured that all was still, and unable to detect, even by the aid of his practiced senses, any sign of his approaching foes, he would deliberately resume his slow and guarded progress.
6 Every effort, however, to detect the least evidence of the approach of their hidden enemies was as fruitless as the inquiry after his late companions.
7 In these brief pauses, Heyward and the sisters listened, with senses rendered doubly acute by the danger, to detect any symptoms which might announce the proximity of their foes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 8 The other was a most artful deceiver, and could be understood only by such as were skilful enough to detect his cunningly-devised frauds.
9 He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.
10 The youth studied the faces of his companions, ever on the watch to detect kindred emotions.
11 The youth could detect no expression that would allow him to believe that the other was giving a thought to his narrowed future, the pictured dungeons, perhaps, and starvations and brutalities, liable to the imagination.
12 She had even learnt to detect, in the very gentleness which had first delighted her, an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary.
13 I walked as if for a wager, mile after mile, till a turn brought me in view of the Heights; but no Catherine could I detect, far or near.
14 Still, I thought I could detect in his physiognomy a mind owning better qualities than his father ever possessed.
15 And often, from the side of my eye, I could detect her raising a hand, and brushing something off her cheek.