2523 examples of realise in sentences

We have just had an excellent meal, a quiet pipe, and fireside conversation within, almost forgetful for the time of the howling tempest without;now, as we lie in our bags warm and comfortable, one can scarcely realise that 'hell' is on the other side of the thin sheet of canvas that protects us.

They do not seem to realise the things they are doing!

Did you happen to realise his explanation as to the constitution of the society? AUNTIE.

Thus the high value of these hedge-row trees around the fields of his tenant, which he will realise on the spot, together with some additional pounds in rent annually to himself and heirs, would probably facilitate this levelling arrangement in face of all the restrictions that the law of entail might seem to throw in the way.

We have again the courage to stand with firm feet upon God's earth, and to realise our divinely endowed human nature.

For as soon as the pure teaching and love of Christ, as they really are, are comprehended and consistently practised, we shall realise our humanity as great and free, and cease to attach undue importance to mere outward form.

' It is wholesome and tonic to realise the powerlessness of man in the face of these little accidents.

It must be hard for those who do not live there to realise the cross between canker and blight that has settled on England for the last couple of years.

A thousand years cannot be as yesterday for mankind; and one has only to glance at the races across the Border to realise how in outlook, manner, expression, and morale the South and South-east profoundly and fatally affects the North and North-west.

To realise Victoria you must take all that the eye admires most in Bournemouth, Torquay, the Isle of Wight, the Happy Valley at Hong-Kong, the Doon, Sorrento, and Camps Bay; add reminiscences of the Thousand Islands, and arrange the whole round the Bay of Naples, with some Himalayas for the background.

Our world is all one straight bar of brown or green earth, and, for some months, mere sky-reflecting water that wipes out everything You have only to look at the Colossi to realise how enormously and extravagantly man and his works must scale in such a country.

Till one has seen it, one does not realise the amazing thinness of that little damp trickle of life that steals along undefeated through the jaws of established death.

We realise now why it is that the German Army has to attack in mass.

His departure left Titian, his associate under Giorgione, master of the field; he, too, had a hand in finishing some of the work left incomplete in the atelier, and his privilege it became to continue the Giorgionesque tradition, and to realise in utmost perfection in after years the aspirations and ideals so brilliantly anticipated by the young genius of Castelfranco.

Where we were the weather was perfectly calm and still; a candle would have burned in the open air without flickering; and I could not realise the tremendous force of the hurricane which, only a mile ahead, was vomiting snow out of the mouth of that ravine and carrying it four miles to sea.

At first he didn't realise who it was, the face was so white and the figure so quiet, then, pulling himself together, he saw that it was the old servant.

All this happened in a few moments, but long enough to have left me so agitated that I could not realise it had only been a vision in a glass ball.

He remembered her deathand those pictorial effects in the white-sheeted roomeffects of light and shadowof flowersof the grey head uplifted; he remembered also trying to realise them, stealthily, at night, in his own room, with chalk and paperand then his passion with himself, and the torn drawing, and the tears, which, as it were, another self saw and approved.

"But now and again the knowledge comes like a revelation," she said, "and we realise that we stand practically alone, out of any one's reach for help or comfort.

It is difficult, especially for those born under the Saturnine influence of an English sky, quite to realise the nature of such conversation.

A comparison of the two pieces should be made by anyone who wishes to realise fully, not only the degradation of the copy, but the excellence of the original.

This is certainly strange; but the explanation of it lies in the extraordinary voguea vogue, indeed, so extraordinary that it is very difficult for the modern reader to realise itenjoyed throughout Europe by French culture and literature during the middle years of the eighteenth century.

Frederick had failed to realise this; and indeed, though Voltaire was fifty-six when he went to Berlin, and though his whole life had been spent in a blaze of publicity, there was still not one of his contemporaries who understood the true nature of his genius; it was perhaps hidden even from himself.

But three months elapsed before Frederick could bring himself to realise that all was over, and to agree to the departure of his extraordinary guest.

Mrs. Macdonald gives several facsimiles of pages in the original draft, which amply support her description of it; but it is to be hoped that before long she will be able to produce a new and complete edition of the Mémoires, with all the manuscript alterations clearly indicated; for until then it will be difficult to realise the exact condition of the text.

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