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Sentences ending with descried
- There was running to and fro and whispering; another troyka flew furiously up, and then all eyes were turned on an approaching sleigh in which the figures of the Emperor and Volkonski could already be descried. [2]
- Such parodies as this in the Song of Prussia we could understand very well: "I am a Prussian, my colours you know, From darkness to light they boldly go; But that for Freedom my fathers died, Is a fact which I have not yet descried. [10]
- In front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably was, for something could be descried. [2]
- At the fleches Bennigsen stopped and began looking at the Shevardino Redoubt opposite, which had been ours the day before and where several horsemen could be descried. [2]
More example sentences with the word descried in them
- He easily descried Wrangle through the gloom, but the others were not in sight. [13]
- Reward for his vigilance came when he descried three more mounted men, far over to the north. [13]
- Presently he descried two mounted men riding toward him. [13]
- I was revolving this very thing in my mind one day as I was paddling back to the inn after a look at my client's new pier and boat-houses, when I descried Farrar's catboat some distance out. [9]
- Sailing by Croatan they went to Hatorask, where they descried a smoke in the place they had left the colony in 1587. [4]
- Towards sunset of the third day, when the young gentlemen thought they ought to be near the town of Magnolia, near which they had been directed to find the engineers' camp, they descried a log house and drew up before it to enquire the way. [5]
- Peeping cautiously over the side of his hammock, he descried Mrs Quilp, to whom, after contemplating her for some time in silence, he communicated a violent start by suddenly yelling out--'Halloa! [12]
- Alfred's eye, quickly scanning the horizon, descried the roof of the boundary-rider's hut still gleaming in the sunlight. [5]
- Returning down the rocky steep, I descried, solitary in that great waste of rock and snow, the form of a lady whom I supposed I had left sleeping at the inn, overcome with the fatigue of yesterday's tramp. [4]
- I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair. [9]
- Now she descried looming above her the outline of Torrey's Hill blurred and melting into a darkening sky, and turned into the bleak lane where stood the Franco-Belgian Hall--Hampton Headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World. [9]
- He saw the little boat Angele had descried making from France. [11]
- This, the first land they descried, they named Cape Henry, in honor of the Prince of Wales; as the opposite cape was called Cape Charles, for the Duke of York, afterwards Charles I. [4]
- Arriving in the hot main street of Ripton, her sharp eyes descried the Record sign over the drug store, and in an astonishingly short time she was in the empty office. [9]
- The third day he hove the Sally to; being a stout craft and not overladen she weathered the gale with the loss of a jib, and was about making topsails again when a full-rigged ship was descried in the offing giving signals of distress. [9]
- Much before he had expected, judging from sound, to his amazement he descried horsemen near at hand. [13]
- In this happy flow of spirits, Mr Quilp reached Tower Hill, when, gazing up at the window of his own sitting-room, he thought he descried more light than is usual in a house of mourning. [12]
- Then Venters's eye descried a very thin, very long green snake coiled round a sapling. [13]
- He never looked back until he had almost gained the shelter of the forest; then he turned and descried two figures in the distance. [5]
- We were getting along famously, when we descried another canoe passing us at some distance, and we both recognized the Celebrity at the paddle by the flannel jacket of his college boat club. [9]
- About ten o'clock a horse and wagon was descried making a slow approach to the camp over the prairie. [5]
- Suddenly Venters descried a frog-like shape clinging to Wrangle's neck. [13]
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