I have been surprised to
detect encircling the pond, even where a thick wood has just been cut down on the shore, a narrow shelf-like path in the steep hillside, alternately rising and falling, approaching and receding from the water's edge, as old probably as the race of man here, worn by the feet of aboriginal hunters, and still from time to time unwittingly trodden by the present occupants of the land.
'I was not aware there were eavesdroppers,' muttered the
detected villain.
Together we threaded the long hall and reached the balcony overlooking the courtyard, without being
detected.
The projectile discharged by the Columbiad at Stones Hill has been
detected by Messrs.
I have now been thirty years in the public service, and have fulfilled my duties irreproachably, remained abstemious, and never been
detected in any unbecoming behaviour.
His eye fell on Pierre's large and striking figure, and in the expression with which he frowned and looked away Pierre thought he
detected sympathy and a desire to conceal that sympathy.
You would surely have thought that I had been
detected in no less a heinous crime than the purloining of the Crown Jewels from the Tower, or putting poison in the coffee of His Majesty the King.
Some characteristic points of difference--for instance, that of the width of mouth--could hardly be
detected in the young.
Whether the insatiable curiosity of this good woman had carried her on to that business, or whether she did it to confirm herself in the good graces of Mrs Blifil, who, notwithstanding her outward behaviour to the foundling, frequently abused the infant in private, and her brother too, for his fondness to it, I will not determine; but she had now, as she conceived, fully
detected the father of the foundling.
I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were
detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution--such is not my taste.
He was restive all through it; he kept tally of the details of the prayer, unconsciously -- for he was not listening, but he knew the ground of old, and the clergyman's regular route over it -- and when a little trifle of new matter was in- terlarded, his ear
detected it and his whole nature re- sented it; he considered additions unfair, and scoun- drelly.
The reader may have
detected an unfortunate slip in it.