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

By this Application the Patients will be sensible of their Feeling's returning very gradually to the Part, and that they begin to recover their Motion.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Could we, so few Years ago, make a formal Demand, by James Logan, and not be sensible of our Right?

From The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Attachments and Support Papers by Colden, Cadwallader

You may not be sensible of a loss of this sort, nor even the physician.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

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.