| 1. | He ceas'd, discerning ADAM with such jo. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Darcy had been, was much relieved by discerning such different feelings. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 3. | Then Helen thus "Whom your discerning eye. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | A discerning one might easily regard himself at present as the animalization of God. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 5. | The appearance of endless youth given by her alive, responsive personality deceives the most discerning as to her age. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 6. | "What is she vexed with him about" thought Kitty, discerning that Anna had intentionally not responded to Vronsky's bow. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | THE SAGE AS ASTRONOMER.--So long as thou feelest the stars as an "above thee," thou lackest the eye of the discerning one. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | Man himself is to the discerning one the animal with red cheeks. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 9. | The hatred and contempt of the crowd punish such men for discerning the higher laws. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |