We came to high words, perceived the error of thinking our tempers accorded, and agreed to part.

The people were blinded and dazzled at first, but they gradually awoke and perceived the error that had been committed.

But by this time the United States authorities had perceived the error they had committed in temporizing with the Barbary powers.

Perhaps too he perceived the error of his middle age, when he contrasted that former wedding, the work of worldly conventionality, with the present.