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.
And on this Aeneas descries from sea a mighty forest.
He flies swifter than the wind, when once he descries a strange hilt in his weaponless hand.
But when the morning-star with early ray Flamed in the front of heaven, and promised day; Like distant clouds the mariner descries Fair Ithaca's emerging hills arise.
Knowledge descries alone, wisdom applies; / That makes some fools, this maketh none but wise.
Through these gaping portals one now descries Chaos, where hot and cold, moist and dry contend for mastery, and where Satan will have to make his way through the elements in confusion to reach the place whither he is bound.
Dante descries among the victims tonsured polls, proving that monks themselves are not exempt from these sins.
Eagerly quaffing its ethereal waters to satisfy his ardent thirst for knowledge, Dante beholds the court of Heaven, anddescries its myriads of thrones, all occupied by redeemed spirits.
Virgil now directs Dante's glance ahead, until our poet dimly descries what looks like an immense windmill.
Vaulting on his war-steed, Georgos now rides off with Una and the dwarf, and after crossing a wilderness enters a forest, where before long he descries the mouth of a cave, into which he feels impelled to enter.
Peering in the direction of the sound, Dante descries what he takes for lofty towers, until Virgil informs him that when they draw nearer still he will discover they are giants standing in the lowest pit but looming far above it in the mist.
Light has gone and darkness has already invaded the solitude, when White Aster descries a faint red gleam through the trees and hears the droning voice of a priest chanting his prayers.
Among them Milton descries various idols, later to be worshipped in Palestine, Egypt, and Greece.
A good player descries the enemy, and drops back as soon as the ball is out of the bowler’s hand.
He descries when the fieldsman has a long reach with his left hand, or when he must overbalance and right himself, or turn before he can throw.
Age quarrels because Spring puts forth a leaf While Winter has a mind that boughs stay bare; Or rather--worse than quarrel--age descries Propriety in preaching life to death.
The Theban wittol, when he once descries Jove is his rival, falls to sacrifice.
Beyond the weakness of the god his tormenter he descries a Power, unobstructed, all-pure.
Prince Hohenstiel descries upon it two blots, takes up a pen, and draws a line from one to the other.
Oliver Descries the Saracens Hearing a great tumult, Oliver ascended a hill and looked towards Spain, where he perceived the great pagan army, like a gleaming sea, with shining hauberks and helms flashing in the sun.
When it descries one of these birds, which it does at a great distance, it utters a shriek, as if for the purpose of giving an alarm, a cry which is instantly repeated by all birds of the same species which happen to be within hearing.
But hedescries nothing in the material or moral order of the world to warrant any such belief.
Say in what distant land the eye descries But three short ells of all th' expanded skies; Tell this, and great Apollo be your name; Your skill is equal, equal be your fame.
Two water oaks stand a few feet from its entrance, and through them he descries his pursuers bearing down upon him at full speed, the dogs making the very forest echo with their savage yelps.
The huntsman hears the rustling noise, And through half-eaten leaves descries His branching horns, the pack recalls, And merited the creature falls To his ingratitude a prey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "descries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
