Verb (used with object), : The lookout descried land. From Dictionary.com.
Till Britain's green hills were descried from the mast. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor] Reference
Any day, from morning till evening, she might be descried. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
Towards evening, to our infinite joy, we descried a boat entering the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
They went forward, and in a short time descried the lodge of the manitoes. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
Next is descried the bay of Tarentum, town, if rumour is true, of Hercules. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
At last, the Mariana or Ladrone Islands were descried on the 16th of August. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850] Reference
What I had descried had quite belied my expectation, and had been totally unforeseen. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
That dark cloud of portentous aspect could be descried by all sharp-sighted observers. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
At length she descried the object of their hostility behind the trunk of a fallen tree. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Lucile was just about in despair when, at the far end of the platform, she descried her. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
But in a few minutes he observed a commotion among the insurgents; some one had descried. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The afternoon of another day comes on, and then a sail is descried, and off we go after it. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
On looking up they descried what seemed to be a human form lying prone across the skylight. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
At six o'clock in the morning, a sail was descried, which was soon discovered to be a frigate. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
The little aoul of Dargo, perched on a hill-top, was even descried in the transparent distance. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
Sam Curtis, the station master, descried her immediately and came out of his office with her bag. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
I soon descried her, perched upon the top of a high bookcase, not daring to come down for fear of me. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
My companion and I their went on down the creek, and soon descried the schooner anchored out in the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Girt in the cloud he passes amid them, wonderful to tell, and mingling with the throng is descried of none. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Noll first descried the welcome sight while standing on the piazza steps, anxiously surveying the sea and sky. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
Still, old John's company was a comfort to me, and when the first bird was descried, I made a capital set at it. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
And then it was that the sharp eyes of the old boat-steerer descried my arm above the surface, not many yards away. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
From a distance he descried his brother's house, already awake, the open blinds and the flowers on the window-sills. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As I turned my head I descried my missing ear-ring lying in the threads of a crocheted tidy that had lain under my head. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
We descried one house with our glasses on the very tiptop of Rich, and so far away that it seemed no larger than a tent. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
As the patriots approached the town, a squad stationed by Krumpen outside the walls descried them and sounded the alarm. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
As he emerged from the deep interior, I descried an uncommonly tall figure, bearing in his arms a young and living leopard. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Three wintry nights in the water the blustering south drove me over the endless sea; scarcely on the fourth dawn I descried. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
On our return, the white flag (a Hadji's turban) was descried on the mountain, being the prearranged signal that all was well. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
At dawn of the 15th, a vessel was descried in the offing, and, as she approached the coast, the initiated soon ascertained her to be a. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Perseus looked earnestly through the dusk of the evening, and there, sure enough, at no great distance off, he descried the Three Gray. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of All Nations Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sources] Reference
The door of the boys 'room swung wide; her swift glance descried Wade's figure just vanishing into the grove at the edge of the clearing. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
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