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He accepted a glass of eggnog from Mr. Weasley with a word of thanks, looking slightly more cheerful. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

She found a shallow pool filled with water lilies: The bulbs would make acceptable food when other things ran out. A Girl Named Disaster

Nine-tenths of every picture is the product, not of perception, but of apperception. Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)

The riding knight who had captured him was a man of enormous stature, and Lancelot recognized him by his blazon as Sir Carados. The Once and Future King

For several days, the captives were held on the airfield, shivering by night, sweltering by day, singing Christmas carols to cheer themselves. Unbroken

It would be a rude shock for Theo, Vincent tells him, to be on his own; it would be disorienting, like leaving a prison after years of captivity. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

Standing motionless, she captivated an audience that included other well-known singers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

The more I participated in class, the more I realized that I was no longer interested in the lesson plan because of the possible reward, but because I genuinely found the lesson captivating. The Freedom Writers Diary

“I wish you’d learn to put the caps back on things properly when you’re finished using them,” she said in a tone she fully meant to sound captious. Franny and Zooey

Day after day the captives walked, saying very little to one another or to their captors. Copper Sun

Whatever vague plan I had conceived regarding returning to my pond is wiped from my mind as I zigzag and dive and leap to avoid the fireballs. The Hunger Games

The expression on her face suggested that give-and-take was a new and unpleasant concept to Bonnie of Greensboro. Me Talk Pretty One Day

A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. A Walk in the Woods

Unless Harry’s eyes were deceiving him, Fudge was suddenly looking awkward. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban

White and his men had earlier confronted Morrison after learning of his deception. Killers of the Flower Moon

In fact, much as I admired his planning and pluck, his trip seemed frighteningly ill-conceived. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho

Healthy men and animals often carry the poison, though themselves insusceptible. Various

And the early stages of these fishes, even more than the adults, are especially susceptible to direct chemical poisoning. Silent Spring

Agents managed to intercept Cornwallis’s encrypted reports to Clinton during the siege of Yorktown, and James Lovell cracked the code that Cornwallis used. George Washington, Spymaster

As it went down, slipping lightly through the old man’s fingers, he still could feel the great weight, though the pressure of his thumb and finger were almost imperceptible. The Old Man and The Sea

It is a common misconception that birds abandon their babies because of scent. A Bird Will Soar

The compass enabled sailors to perceive the earth’s magnetic field. The Invention of Science

With a power of perception that far outpaced his era, Burnham recognized that the tiniest details would shape the way people judged the exposition. The Devil in the White City

Since the nobles are more perceptive and cunning, they always have time to save themselves, seeking the favours of the side they believe will prevail. The Prince

The authenticity associated with these "localized" products adds to their perceived value.Salon

Levinson’s travels smash a lot of his preconceptions — for instance, when he sipped 12-year-old scotch with citizens of Pakistan, a supposedly “teetotaling Islamic Republic.”The New York Times

A few managed to break loose and make a mad dash for freedom, only to be recaptured in no time, admonished or whipped, or both, and ordered to march again. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography

"I've received over four thousand letters and balloons. I'm still opening them." The Belles

This precise alignment of signals in time enables the cell network to organize and manage the transmission and reception of data from multiple devices, like your cellphone.Science Daily

Confronted with an intractable problem, he was prepared to work at it harder and longer than most people and to be more receptive to unorthodox explanations. A Short History of Nearly Everything

In 2004 two U.S. anthropologists and a Venezuelan medical researcher proposed that Native American susceptibility to infectious disease might have a second cause: helper-T cells, which like HLAs help the immune system recognize foreign objects. 1491