Adjective : a perceptible change in his behavior. From Dictionary.com.
With the passing minutes the lines deepened on his haggard countenance, his expression perceptibly aged. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Blood A Novel] Reference
But his inner spiritual life has perceptibly dwarfed. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
The propellor stopped, and the plane sank perceptibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
Hipps shook his head and the girl brightened perceptibly. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
He looked at his hands in disgust, and perceptibly shivered. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Disheartening though the pull was, he had gained perceptibly. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The fog thinned perceptibly three hours after the sun had set. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
When he raised his eyes again the jungle was perceptibly darker. From Wordnik.com. [Survival Tactics] Reference
After a couple of minutes, the enemy's fire perceptibly slackened. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
The next day she received her guest with a perceptibly softened manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
Then he looked at Mr. Lightenhome, who had aged perceptibly in the last hours. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Tooly grew pallid of feature and his cheeks hollowed perceptibly, in a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
While this change was being effected, our pursuers gained upon us perceptibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
And running a multitude of apps didn't seem to slow the phone down perceptibly. From Wordnik.com. [First impressions: Sprint's Evo 4G, running on a 3G network] Reference
It faded and returned, stronger this time, perceptibly cooling the hot streets. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
Meanwhile, the breeze, which had been steadily rising, had grown perceptibly stronger. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
His work, perhaps, was not highly popular, and Mark Lemon perceptibly cooled towards him. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
~ Aluminium is not perceptibly acted on by boiling water, and moist air merely dims its luster. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
He lighted these ends, and in a little while the temperature in the circle rose very perceptibly. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
I closed my eyes, and when I opened them again, sleepily, the bright area was perceptibly smaller. From Wordnik.com. [Out Around Rigel] Reference
Greatly to his relief, the perturbed countenance of the latter softened perceptibly as he exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Mrs. Champney had been failing perceptibly the last few weeks, and all excitement was forbidden her. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Pottery and obsidian are ever present, but become perceptibly less and almost disappear further east. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
Not dizzily, not even rapidly, but very perceptibly, the great mass of jagged rock was turning on its axis. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
In fact, on the Professor's right hand there showed a drop of blood, perceptibly larger this time than before. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
He spoke of Margaret Fuller, who, he says, has risen perceptibly into a higher state since their last meeting. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Another staircase leads down again to the vestibule and hall, where the crowd is by this time perceptibly thinning. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
And yet in twenty-four hours the mohair had not become perceptibly greener nor was the blue more strikingly passée. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Elisabeth leaned forward, and beneath the soft laces of her gown the rise and fall of her breast quickened perceptibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
The tallest tower could not be much less than two hundred feet in height; the others slightly, just perceptibly, lower. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
But in spite of her cheeriness her spirits were perceptibly lowered when she set foot in the victoria that was sent for her at noon. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
His mother frowned perceptibly when she noticed the smell, and he worried that she would dig around in his room to find the source. From Wordnik.com. [Old Egg] Reference
Meantime our vegetation had perceptibly altered; and we gained faith, from this predicted circumstance, in the foresight of the wise. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
This method was considerable relief from the steady poling which told perceptibly upon the back and shoulders of the novice, and it formed. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
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