How To Use Descry In A Sentence
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The friendly breeze freshened again next day, and on we went once more before it gallantly: descrying now and then an English ship going homeward under shortened sail, while we, with every inch of canvas crowded on, dashed gaily past, and left her far behind.
American Notes for General Circulation
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Item, if the fleet should happen to be scattered by weather, or other mishap, then so soon as one shall descry another, to hoise both topsails twice, if the weather will serve, and to strike them twice again; but if the weather serve not, then to hoise the maintopsail twice, and forthwith to strike it twice again.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
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I descry a sail on the horizon.
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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
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He could descry objects enough at such times, but none correctly.
Weatherwatch: The snow's solemn stillness
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Danlo was perhaps the only one to descry Hanuman's true potential.
THE BROKEN GOD
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While he clearly indicates productions he considers successful, I would be hard-pressed to descry a pattern among them.
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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
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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
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[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:
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If China, for example, tried a defendant after doing all this and then found them guilty and executed them, would we not descry this as another example of tyranny?
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Problem with the KSM Trial
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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
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Therefore he spurred his willing horse against the hill, and up the many-winding ruggedness of road, hoping, at every turn, to descry in the distance the vehicle carrying that very plaguesome box.
Mary Anerley
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Or was the Prince of Astrology already above the starry ceiling of the studiolo with Paul of Middleburg, descrying signs from the heavens regarding the health of the duke and dukedom?
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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To my surprise, I heard no more about it for some two or three weeks, though I was sufficiently interested in the result of his endeavours; descrying a strange gleam of good sense — I say nothing of good feeling, for that he always exhibited — in the conclusion to which he had come.
David Copperfield
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Within about 30 seconds, the guy I was descrying focused on someone in the middle of the audience.
WonderCon 2010 - Very Serious About Content Pirates
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Ostensibly sympathetic to those on the raft, the painting shows the survivors descrying a ship barely visible on the horizon.
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Then he addressed himself to seeking a place wherein he might safely bestow himself and his horse and where none should descry him, and presently behold, he espied a-middlemost of the city a palace rising high in upper air surrounded by a great wall with lofty crenelles and battlements, guarded by forty black slaves, clad in complete mail and armed with spears and swords, bows and arrows.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I can understand why people spend entire lifetimes playing the Shakespeare game, that is trying to descry the human being behind the scintillant words: the densest exegesis is a passionate argument, to another Shakespeare lover, with the ghostly form on the other side of the curtain of time.
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » A Riff on Rereading
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He has no problem descrying "moral responsibility" but he's fuzzy about legal responsibility such as the definition of slander.
Bernard-Henri Lévy says why Barack Obama will be President.
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By the glimmer of light lent me, I can but guess greatness and descry vagueness.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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There would he lay till they would him descry, spancelled down upon a blossomy bed, at one foule stretch, amongst the daffydowndillies, the flowers of narcosis fourfettering his footlights, a halohedge of wild spuds hovering over him, epicures waltzing with gardenfillers, puritan shoots advancing to Aran chiefs.
Finnegans Wake
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The Athenian day-watch descrying him, signalled to the generals, and they, with twenty sail, put out to sea to attack him.
Hellenica
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It is my hope, and my presumption, that such a place of appulse may be found, where we may take our stand, and from whence we may have a full view of the mighty expanse before us; from whence also we may descry the original design, and order, of all those objects, which by length of time, and their own remoteness, have been rendered so confused and uncertain.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
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I descry a sail on the horizon.
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Barton a super-woman -- or at least they were personalities so designated by the cub book-reviewers, flat-floor men and women, and scholastically emasculated critics, who from across the dreary levels of their living can descry no glorious humans over-topping their horizons.
THE KANAKA SURF
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Shakespeare 'descry' also occurs in the sense of 'to reconnoitre.'
Milton's Comus
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Danlo was perhaps the only one to descry Hanuman's true potential.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The following year police raided an exhibition of Lawrence's paintings and seized every canvas on which they could descry any wisp of pubic hair.
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Was the distribution of shot times entirely random, or were there any local or global patterns to descry: longies with longies, middies alternating with shorties, etc.?
NYT > Home Page
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How could she possibly descry the ship's position from a standpoint of utter blindness.
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Then we head for high ground, and we all descry the steep walls to map a route upward.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I
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He can descry a way of overcoming the difficulty.
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For, be it known in advance, Lee Barton was a super-man and Ida Barton a super-woman -- or at least the were personalities so designated by the cub book reviewers, flat-floor men and women, and scholastically emasculated critics, who, from across the dreary levels of their living, can descry no glorious humans overtopping their horizons.
“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
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But, descrying traces of unmuddled harmony in a part-song one day, he gave his two under cellarmen faint hopes of getting on towards something in course of time.
No Thoroughfare
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And godlike Telemachus was far the first to descry her, for he was sitting with a heavy heart among the wooers dreaming on his good father, if haply he might come somewhence, and make a scattering of the wooers there throughout the palace, and himself get honour and bear rule among his own possessions.
Book I
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From my window I could descry, at no great distance, a very ordinary mortal of a man, working industriously among his cabbages.
The Dignity of Dollars