perceiving

Ruby, perceiving the Queen’s calendar lying on the table, wanted to know if Anne meant to try for the gold medal.

At that moment Sir William Lucas appeared close to them, meaning to pass through the set to the other side of the room; but, on perceiving Mr.

Collins, who entered with an air more stately than usual, and on perceiving whom, she said to the girls,--

“But surely,” said she, “I may enter his county with impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars, without his perceiving me.”