One can scarcely realise the difficulties that lay in the way of a studious boy in those days.

I suppose that next morning two pairs of bright little eyes were on the watch for Joseph Ford; and perchance four pattering feet ran to the door when the knock came; and that two little minds dimly realised that father had been called to a far-off country, where some day they would see him.

People seldom realise the enormous period of time which each change in men's ideas requires for its full accomplishment.

From what is recorded, however, of the frivolous habits and irregular morals of these princesses, it is evident that they but imperfectly realised the end of their education.

Listening to their shells whistling over one's head like express trains, and to their (happily distant) deep crashes on percussion, one realised very vividly the immediate military effects of the Russian collapse.

George the Third was beloved by the English people because they realised intensely that, like themselves, he had been born in England, and because the published facts of his daily life came home to them.

Mahomet realised the position of affairs at Medina too acutely to allow of his undertaking in person any predatory expeditions against the Kureisch during the autumn and winter of 623.

Of a sudden I realised that I was being embraced.

They were near one of the electric lights, and he saw her face more distinctly than he had seen it at all, realised more adequately its wonderful charm.

Obviously Mr. Moggridge, who not unnaturally had felt a sense of moving about in worlds not realised during much of the deep talk, was here an authority of importance, and the idea at once appealed to him.

The Meccans evidently accepted defeat, for they returned speedily to their own country, realising bitterly the impossibility of keeping together so heterogeneous an army in the face of a prolonged check.

This personal introduction to each part of the image, now presented to her for the first time, enabled her to realise more forcibly than a lengthened experience of astronomical observation might have done the likeness to her own world of that which was passing under her eyes; and at once intensified her wonder, heightened her pleasure, and sharpened her intellectual apprehension of the scene.

Instinctively he realised that something was wrong; but how to set it right

And at last, realising abruptly that the whole thing had passed out of his hands, had vanished like a vision of the night, he returned to his own rooms, a little astonished to find the notes he had made still tangible and visible upon, his untidy table.

"The proof!" broke in the Prince, sharply, realising, perhaps, the justice of the reproach.

It would be better, perhaps, if it were frankly realised and recognised that it is a special taste, a peculiar vocation.

Geometry, for instance, came into the service of man when it was consciously realised that all units of land and water were exactly alike in so far as they were extended surfaces.

The difficulty of accepting them now arises not mainly from want of external evidence, but from having more keenly realised what it is to believe a miracle.

You will have read no more than the opening pages (descriptive of the terrible Sunday evening supper which the pair took at the Vicaragea supper of cold meat and a ground-rice mould, whereat four jaded and parish-worn persons lacerated one another's nerves) before you will have realised gratefully that the story and its characters are going to be alive with a very refreshing and unpuppetlike vitality.

And her hope of being useful was very substantially realised.

A man may develop his capacities, seek and to some extent attain satisfactionin a manner, realise himselfnot only in devotion to a scientific or artistic ideal or in labours for the common good, but also in selfish pursuit of power or even in sensual enjoyment.

To the end of her life she increasingly realised and brought others to realise the paramount importance of the personal work of the Holy Spirit.

But it is insufficiently realised that the tyranny which half frustrated all the good work of Puritanism was of a very peculiar kind.

Wordsworth, indeed, never carried a pedlar's pack, nor did Byron ever command a pirate ship, or Coleridge shoot an albatross; but there were times and moods in which their thoughts intently realised, and identified themselves with the reflective wanderer, the impetuous Corsair, and the ancient mariner.

She was not shallow; but she merely realised life more through her intelligence than through her feelings.