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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
descry .
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Examples
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Till Britain's green hills were descried from the mast.
Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor 1832
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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.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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After breakfast, basking herself in the sun, Frona descried a familiar bunch of men rounding the tail of the glacier in the direction of
CHAPTER 4 2010
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On the eighteenth day of the month of June, in the sixth year of my sojourn on the island, I descried a sail.
Chapter 19 2010
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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: Carl Paladino: Straight From the Horse's Mouth Robert Brenner 2010
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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.
The Golden Poppy 2010
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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: Carl Paladino: Straight From the Horse's Mouth Robert Brenner 2010
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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.
THE SUNLANDERS 2010
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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: Carl Paladino: Straight From the Horse's Mouth Robert Brenner 2010
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On the eighteenth day of the month of June, in the sixth year of my sojourn on the island, I descried a sail.
Chapter 19 2010
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