descry
verb (used with object)
undescried
-
a word derived from
descry.
Example Sentences
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How many a woman, believed to have been Without a regret, I have known turn aside To burst into heartbroken tears undescried!
From Lucile by Owen Meredith
It seemed to the man and woman that they were the only living things in the world, its people, its sounds, its interests, were in some undescried distance where life progressed with languid pulses.
From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner
Beyond, on some slope undescried The City stood, I thought, wherefore I strove to cross the river's tide, And ever I longed, yet more and more.
From The Pearl by Sophie Jewett
All the names wherein the incarnate Lord lived his day and died Fade from suns to stars, from stars into darkness undescried.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Human suffering at our side, Ah, like yours is undescried!
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
