Sentence examples similar to once he discerned from inspiring English sources

In this abstract mood ("This is when I relish visions of suicide," he'd told her once), he tonight discerned something about her commentary, peeled back her father's (stable) condition, her mother's (chatty) busyness, to inquire into the neighbor, the former boyfriend, the surprise, the narrative aside.

He thought that he discerned a LoBagola pattern.

In this hopeless situation, he discerned an advantage.

Furthermore, he discerned a remarkable sequence in the creatures he exhumed.

The proposed tax was killed, Mr. Abramoff said, "once they discerned a conservative principle".

In Punjab he discerns a state hooked on irrigation.

Will he discern false friends?

For he either at once discerned the best men, or by confiding in them made them good.

"Once," he said.

"Maybe once," he said.

"Only once," he reiterated.