Example Sentences

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Rather thy reedy brook —Taw's tributary— At midnight murmuring, Descried them, the delicate, The dark-eyed goddesses.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Just keepeing sight of land because would not be Descried, which way wee went.

From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin)

Three wintry nights, nipt with the chilling frost, Upon the boundless waters I was tost, And on the fourth dawn from a wave at last Descried Italia.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Fierce Sinhiká799 who joyed in ill And changed her form to work her will, Descried him on his airy way And marked the Vánar for her prey.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

There last, not least, the raging beast Descried his form at length, And deemed it was another bull Coming to try his strength.

From The Story of the Two Bulls by Bolles, John R.