He awakes, and perceives that his own grief, the trouble of his youth, had transferred itself to the image he saw in his dream.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
An old soldier like him hardly perceives whether he is lying on the bare ground or on a feather-bed.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
The reaction of feeling begins when he perceives that Mertoun has allowed himself to be killed.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr