Example Sentences

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This would be no shelter, for from the point we occupied, the most elevated on the ridge, we could have descried an object of human size five miles off.

From The Rifle Rangers by Reid, Mayne

The three army corps have descried one another.

From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Sue, Eugène

From the moment that, across the conscience whereon divine rays are falling, we have descried the eternal centre of light, we understand that God is the most implacable enemy of abuses.

From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Downton, Henry

He looked around for more substantial wreckage, but the mist and the darkness combined rendered it impossible to have descried even a boat, had such been within a few yards of him.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

They were almost invisible on the glittering surface of the water, being perfectly white; and, had a sentinel been looking out, he could only have descried them by the phosphorescent flashes along their sides.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles