descry
verb (used with object)
undescried
-
a word derived from
descry.
Example Sentences
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What the deil, man—I crave your lordship's pardon for swearing—but it was no cathedral—only a lurking-place called the king's lugg, or ear, where he could sit undescried, and hear the converse of his prisoners.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
This heard, to Damian straight a sign she made To haste before; the gentle squire obey'd: Secret and undescried he took his way, And, ambush'd close, behind an arbour lay.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by George Gilfillan
The handle he tried: The door open'd: he enter'd the room undescried.
From Lucile by Owen Meredith
If fortified, how many Great Guns, and what number of small Arms? whether it is possible to come undescried on them?
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
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
