I was near you, when you sat beneath those beech-trees, and piped and sang the praises of your sweetheart Amaryllis: I was close to the damsel, but you could not discern me. I gave her to you, and some brave boys, who are now excellent husbandmen and herdsmen, are the pledges of your love.

On looking to the fountain, Ravenswood discerned a female figure, dressed in a white, or rather greyish, mantle, placed on the very spot on which Lucy Ashton had reclined.

In every society, we discern a series of socialization mechanisms to make our coexistence with the others possible.

He just talks, he don't discern.

The land could just be discerned through the mist.

With adequate lighting, one can easily discern Nosferatu, with his pointed incisors and extremely long-limbed fingers, known as arachnodaktyly, from common vampires.

Sarah was discerning enough to realize that her friends were trying to prank her.

No trace whatever of horse or rider could be discerned.

It is hard to discern between the true and the false.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.