When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again?. From LearnThat.org. [Samuel Johnson.]
Verb (used with object), : The lookout descried land. From Dictionary.com.
A shape, but did thy form therein descry. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Shakespeare 'descry' also occurs in the sense of 'to reconnoitre.'. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
Long moving lines of rising dust your vision may descry. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65] Reference
Silvey strained his eyes far out in an effort to descry the captive. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
I opened my eyes but for some minutes could descry nothing but stars. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
Neither, with all possible straining, could our younger eyes descry it. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
On board, every eye is strained to descry the white cliffs of our own native land. From Wordnik.com. [Abroad] Reference
We could even descry the figures of the pilot and his observer, the latter signaling. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
Yonder, however, is a lofty hill, and upon its summit we descry three or four persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
Searching was his look, as if to descry the secrets of her soul, and at last he spoke. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
Pericles had foreseen the coming storm: "I descry war," said he, "lowering from the Peloponnesus.". From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
It must be that pickets had been stationed to descry my approach from a distance and give the signal. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The warders at Berwick no longer look out from the castle walls to descry the glitter of Southern spears. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
And now reddening Dawn had chased away the stars, when we descry afar dim hills and the low line of Italy. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
On this the Teucrians descry a sudden cloud of dark dust gathering, and the blackness rising on the plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
I do not descry a solitary feature of resemblance between the parable at this stage and the doctrine regarding. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
"I can descry nothing either," said Becker; "and yet this is the direction the storm must have driven the sloop.". From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Mist covered the farther distances, but through it, afar off, he fancied he could descry the grey line of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
"We're too late," groaned one of the men, as he peered through the darkness, trying to descry the hull of the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor's Lass] Reference
They detected some subtle change in him, though from that distance they could only descry a somewhat more elevated form. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
These girls, from this training, possess wonderful eyesight, and will descry a sail at sea farther than any sailor could see it. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
BY five o'clock in the morning, the whole army, in order of battle, began to descry the enemy from the rising grounds about a mile from. From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
Half an hour afterwards, on the morning of the 8th March, 1812, the pinnace bore out to sea, and when day broke, the crew could not descry. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Of all disgraces he endures not to be non-plussed, and had rather fly for sanctuary to nonsense which few descry, than to nothing which all. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
They looked over the sea, endeavouring to descry any vessel that might be near, but the atmosphere was so murky that they could see nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
With their attendant moons, thou wilt descry, 'are an allusion to the planets Jupiter and Saturn, whose satellites had been recently discovered. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
They found La Torre deserted; for the people had betaken themselves to the mountains, from whence they could descry the soldiers pillaging their homes. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
He had his great nose pointed out to center field, his dark eyes focused at a distance, as if he meant to descry the stitching on the color guard uniforms. From Wordnik.com. [The Loneliest Hero] Reference
The battle was so nearly balanced that they suffered tortures at the sight, straining to spy out some advantage, and quivering lest they descry some setback. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
If you allow us to use the chance towards seeking Aeneas in Pallanteum town, you will soon descry us here at hand with the spoils of the great slaughter we have dealt. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
At this hour, when all natural shadows are seen in their full proportions, not a fence or shelter of any kind could I descry in this open country, and I was not alone!. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference
Though the Haydée was yet at a considerable distance he could plainly descry the lofty peak upon which he had stood and watched the smugglers depart in their tartane, La. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The hour was somewhat after eleven, for I had heard the Tron Kirk chap recently; the moon in her last quarter had risen, and I could dimly descry the interior of the den. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
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