| 1. | The average American man or woman is a COMBINATION of some two of these types with a third discernible in the background. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 2. | No crowd was about the door no people were discernible at any of the many windows not even a chance passerby was in the street. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | A number of fishing-smacks and coasting boats, some retaining the fantastic fashion of ancient galleys, were discernible on the Red Sea. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 4. | It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | He was as eloquent as he had been valiant a sword was discernible in his speech. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, where nothing was discernible but blood. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | It grew so dark, that the figures on the dial-plate were scarcely discernible but there the two old gentlemen continued to sit, in silence, with the watch between them. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | The whales had irregularly settled bodily down into the blue, thus giving no distantly discernible token of the movement, though from his closer vicinity Ahab had observed it. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 9. | But strangest of all is the circumstance, that in more instances than one, when the body has been recovered, not a single mark of violence is discernible the man being stark dead. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |