was descrying
- past progressive of descry.
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His attention was finally caught and held by the flight of one of those enormous vultures of the Andes, which was descrying a circle in the air directly over the valley at his feet.
From Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America by Rockwood, Roy