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He flies swifter than the wind, when once he descries a strange hilt in his weaponless hand.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

"Mote-like they flicker in unsteady eyes, And weakest his who best descries."

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

Whenever it descries danger from afar, the submarine can disappear under the water in anywhere from twenty seconds to a minute.

From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.

The picturesque Tourist, in a sunny autumn day, through this bounteous realm of England, descries the Union Workhouse on his path.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

Olimpia awakes, and, finding herself alone, hurries to the beach, and then ascends a rock, whence she descries, by light of the moon, the departing sail of her lover.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John