be sensible of
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Inspired by Jean Jacques Rousseau's dedicated frankness, Bozzy deemed it "fine to be sensible of all one's various sentiments and to analyze them."
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the first moment in which Herrick began to be sensible of a little hope.
From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia
He was Anglo-Saxon enough, Puritan and student of history enough to be sensible of the efficacy of blood and iron, at times, in the cure of intolerable ills.
From Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 by Grimké, Archibald Henry
She wishes Fanny also to be sensible of the pleasure with which a correspondence with her would be carried on.
From Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison by Barnard, Ella Kent
You need only hold your hand perpendicularly over the candle, and then hold it sideways obliquely, to be sensible of the difference.
From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Jones, Thomas P.
