Descried

Till Britain's green hills were descried from the mast. ❋ Unknown (1832)

In passing out of the belt of scrub into the openly timbered grassy flat of the river, Brown descried a kangaroo sitting in the shade of a large Bastard-box tree; it seemed to be so oppressed by the heat of the noonday sun as to take little notice of us, so that Brown was enabled to approach sufficiently near to shoot it. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)

But of this I was uninformed, and when I descried her in the midst of the field I waved my arms like a semaphore against the sky. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You may well ask how a self-descried conservative, Italian Catholic, traditional-family-values, anti-pornography candidate can come out in support of interspecies companionship. ❋ Robert Brenner (2010)

Dandar said Kyle was taking a 10 mg dose of Lexapro, which he descried as “moderate.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

After breakfast, basking herself in the sun, Frona descried a familiar bunch of men rounding the tail of the glacier in the direction of ❋ Unknown (2010)

Five or six hours afterward a solitary man was descried coming across the wide flat from the sea, and the women and children poured out upon him in a body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the eighteenth day of the month of June, in the sixth year of my sojourn on the island, I descried a sail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

   In Kyrgyzstan, Pillay descried the overall human rights situation, the result of ongoing tensions between the country's Kyrgyz and Uzbek ethnic communities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even Zuma's left leg, ever pivotal for the election machinery -- Cosatu, descried the cancer of "political hyenas," predatory politics, and crude looters aggressively vying to capture the center of the ANC. ❋ Khadija Sharife (2010)

Grant descried the Mexican-American War as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. ❋ Bruce Fein (2010)

A providential occurrence prevented any more such heart sickening necessities, for, on the morning of the 23d, they were descried by the brig [Angorona], being at that time in Lat 47 N, and long. ❋ Unknown (2008)