How To Use descry In A Sentence
- I descry a sail on the horizon.
- Save the whites or the greys, our friends in the 'chay' were not sufficiently near to descry the colours of the horses; but Mr. Sponge could not help thinking that he recognized the outline of the wicked chestnut, Multum-in-Parvo. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
- I descry a sail on the horizon.
- Bunsby, descrying no objection, on the coast of Greenland or elsewhere, to this proposal, it was carried into execution; and that great man, bringing his eye into the present for a moment, affixed his sign – manual to the cover, totally abstaining, with characteristic modesty, from the use of capital letters. Dombey and Son
- He could descry objects enough at such times, but none correctly. Weatherwatch: The snow's solemn stillness
- Danlo was perhaps the only one to descry Hanuman's true potential. THE BROKEN GOD
- While he clearly indicates productions he considers successful, I would be hard-pressed to descry a pattern among them.
- Indeed, I detected certain palms that I was morally certain were coconut palms, while, unless my eyes deceived me, I believed I could also descry foliage that strongly suggested the idea of plantain or banana trees. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
- But, sitting with my pen in my hand looking at those words again, without descrying any hint in them of the words that should follow, it comes into my mind that they have an abrupt appearance. George Silvermans's Explanation
- [214] They are forced to retreat. had done before, we resolved to imbark silently in the dark of the night, and go off from that Coast where we had been so early descryed, and the enemy was so much prepared against us. Bucaniers of America:
