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And I next Descried our woman under breathless noon, Bathing in a clear lane of gliding water Whose banks seem lonely as the path of light Crossing mid ocean south of Capricorn.

From Miscellany of Poetry 1919 by Seymour, W. Kean

Descried at any distance, his garb, with the caparison of his horse—the full gaucho panoply of bitted bridle, breast-plate, recado, and caronilla—would tell he is not an Indian.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.

Ah! brethren, what was my delight When I yon semicircle bright Of churches, gardens, belfries high Descried before me suddenly!

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

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)

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)