Descries

Word DESCRIES
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Definitions and meanings of "Descries"

What do we mean by descries?

To see.

To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.

To discover: to disclose; to reveal.

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The word "descries" in example sentences

We are apt to make half confessions; to confess some, and hide some; or else to make feigned confessions, flattering both ourselves, and also God, while we make confession unto him; or else to confess sin as our own fancies apprehend, and not as the word descries them. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)

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He descries these bail-outs, but they will happen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Towlinson, who now descries an opportunity of bringing down the spirits of the ladies to his own level, says wait and see; he wishes some people were well out of this. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He also descries promise in the figure of Mr. George himself, striding towards them in his mornmg exercise with his pipe in his mouth, no stock on, and his muscular arms, developed by broadsword and dumbbell, weightily asserting themselves through his light shirt – sleeves. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Upon the left bank of the stream the population is sparse; from time to time one descries a troop of slaves loitering in the half-desert fields; the primeval forest reappears at every turn; society seems to be asleep, man to be idle, and nature alone offers a scene of activity and life. ❋ Marian (2007)

Mr. George then descries, in the procession, the venerable Mr. Smallweed out for an airing, attended by his granddaughter Judy as body – guard. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Flintwinch fell that evening into a haunted state of mind, from which it may be long before this present narrative descries any trace of her recovery. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I marked its first glimpse, however, as speedily as the benighted sailor descries the first distant twinkle of the lighthouse which marks his course. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As soon as the honey-bird descries the traveller, he immediately utters a series of wild, excited cries, hops about from twig to twig, and from branch to branch, then hops to another tree, incessantly repeating his chirruping call. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

Mr Wegg opens the gate, descries a sort of brown paper truncheon under ❋ Unknown (2004)

He moste passe be the desertes of Arabye; be the whiche descries Moyses ladde the peple of Israel: and thanne passe men be the welle, that Moyses made with his hond in the desertes, whan the people grucched, ❋ Unknown (2004)

Putting aside any thought of their own safety, our bravest and finest carried out what the McKinsey report descries as the most successful urban emergency evacuation in modern history. ❋ Unknown (2002)

"Upon the left bank of the stream the population is sparse; from time to time one descries a troop of slaves loitering in half-desert fields; the primeval forest reappears at every turn; society seems to be asleep ...." ❋ Flanders, Steven (1999)

Prospect of the Sea, and descries all Vessells coming from the East and from the West. ❋ Unknown (1961)

One of Charlemagne's Twelve Peers, 125, 136; descries the Saracens and proclaims Ganelon's treason, 138; appeals to Roland to blow his horn, 138; ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Getting now a nearer view, he descries some new features of the danger. ❋ William Arnot (N/A)

He flies swifter than the wind, when once he descries a strange hilt in his weaponless hand. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

As in search for Turnus he bent his glance this way and that round the separate ranks, he descries the city free from all this warfare, unpunished and unstirred. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

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