descry
verb (used with object)
had descried
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past perfectof descry.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But far away Ahmed's keen eye had descried what appeared to be a speck upon the horizon, and he watched it intently.
From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang
His keen, roving eye had descried a motionless figure at the mouth of the alley.
From Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon
When she was scarcely fourteen years old, a peasant had descried on a rugged precipice a golden vulture's nest with one young one, but no one in the village dared venture to seize it.
From The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Once taking a walk with me and my wife on the downs behind his house, he suddenly started, left us, and ran home, simply because he had descried two strangers coming towards us.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
The tree, uprooted from the gap side by the rain and the wind, had descried half a circle, it seemed, when shifted by the pilot.
From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Allen Chapman
