Burning with thirst, and faint from fatigue, he will fix his gaze on the glistening water, to be tortured as Tantalus, and descry the cool shade, without being able to rest his weary limbs beneath it.
Far off they descry it outlined against the clear sky, solitary as a ship at sea.
He can justdescry the lone cottonwood afar off, outlined against the horizon like a ship at sea.
Comfortable subsistence, with the accumulation of wealth by the missionaries themselves, was in most instances the lure which attracted them to Texas, tempting them to risk their lives in the so-called conversion of the heathen.
This foot once planted on the goal, This glory-garland round my soul, Could I descry such?
Actual experimentation has taught that these animals can descry a man at the distance of twenty or twenty-five feet.
In the ranks of that vast army I descry Michael, and I wonder what it is in him that makes me able to descry him at all.
He could descry nothing, but pointing his forefinger along the barrel to where he thought an object crouched, he thumbed the hammer.
An hour afterwards Lafe chanced to descry Jerry going to the spring for a bucket of fresh water to hang beside the keg.
As we went round to the front of the house the elder woman was being led away with her hands bound, and no sooner did the young one descry her than she picked up her skirts and with one wild rush tried to be off and away.
The torchlight falls on his face, and whereas my eyes descry him I cry aloud, and my soul has no thought of him but sheer pity and true love.
That lane sloped, much as the bottles do, From a house you could descry O'er the garden-wall; is the curtain blue Or green to a healthy eye?
Oh, you count the links, Descry no bar of the unbroken man?
Straight would all descry Back on the man's brow the boy's blush once more!
So much for Rome and rumor; smoke comes first: Once let smoke rise untroubled, we descry Clearlier what tongues of flame may spire and spit To eye and ear, each with appropriate tinge According to its food, or pure or foul.
Look well at your eyes the next time you shave, and I fear you will descry those radiant fibres in the iris which always co-exist with heart-disease.
Therefore he spurred his willing horse against the hill, and up the many-winding ruggedness of road, hoping, at every turn, to descry in the distance the vehicle carrying that very plaguesome box.
You shall then descry The other humbler rock, that moves so nigh Your dart may mete the distance.
Furthermore, she hath a towering castle founded upon the heights that overfrown the whole of this city whence she can descry all who pass under its walls.
Then do thou take thy stand upon the sea-shore whence thou shalt descry a ship under way and do thou cry aloud to the crew who shall come to thee and bear thee aboard.
The Kazi administers poetical justice with exemplary impartiality, and so healthy is the morale that at times we descry through the voluptuous and libertine picture "vistas of a transcendental morality--the morality of Socrates in Plato.
They could hear the sound of the cannonading, could descry the puffs of smoke, could see the distant movements of the infantry, but were utterly ignorant of the battle, its importance, and its results.
All that they could descry before them in the dense shadows of the night was the window of the farm-house, faintly illuminated by the dim candle, which shone with a sinister gleam, as if it were doing duty by the bedside of a corpse.
And yet perhaps more trouble is behind; 1300 For I descry this way Some other tending; in his hand A sceptre or quaint staff he bears, Comes on amain, speed in his look.
Far to the north he could descry Spurling, plodding desperately on across the thawing ice.
He was not at all affected by this lamentation, however just, because he had heard it so often before; and he never could make out exactly how much of him his father could manage to descry through that veil Palladian.
Mr. Sharp at the moment could descry no cure; but still to show temper was a vulgar thing.
Then, as the sun goes down, Amid the deepening twilight I descry Figures of men that crouch and creep unheard, And bear away the dead.
The only objection I descry is purely one of feeling.
In your intentions as to that lover's transfer of his affections to Eleanor, I descry a striking truth; but I think it confusedly wrought out, and all but certain to fail in expressing itself.
Towards sunset the islanders in small parties began to return from the beach, and among them, as they drew near to the house, I sought to descry the form of my companion.
The natives who live near the sea descry the strangers long before they reach their waters, and aware of the purpose for which they come, proclaim loudly the news of their approach.
When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the 'big canoe' of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers.
A little further on, he could descry two or three grated openings into the fountain court, but by them nothing could enter beyond the faintest reflection of moonlight from the windows between the grand staircase and the bell tower.
At last he was able to descry a short stretch of the castle rampart, past which, away to the westward, the dog was pulling, along a rough cart-track through a field.
The goddess Net, or Neith, who is mentioned in the Pyramid Texts of Unas, is a figure in which we descry a personification of moisture or rain, because of her possession of the arrow, the symbol of lightning.
A great reputation is a hard thing to lose, and it is possible that the sorcerer may descry in the abandoned, and therefore idle, god a very suitable medium for his purpose.
And she did certainly descry on his countenance traces of emotion, and in his eyes the lingering trouble as of a storm all but overblown.
Or do yedescry from afar the coming of a better era?
Up their sides were innumerable goat-tracks, upon some of which we could descry a few of those agile creatures climbing almost like flies.
So slow, however, was their approach that we had made one "leg" across the ground and halfway back before they were near enough for us to descry the reason of their want of speed.
A ring of immense cliffs shut in the place as with a wall, nor, save the way by which we had come in, could my glance, keen and searching as it was, descryany means by which a man might find a way out.
It seemed so, for I could descry no sign--no sound of the presence of men.
Two worlds are ours: 'tis only Sin Forbids us to descry The mystic heaven and earth within, Plain as the sea and sky.
The distant landscape draws not nigh For all our gazing; but the soul, That upward looks, may still descry Nearer, each day, the brightening goal.
But, however keenly he stared, he could not descry anything but the endless flat plain ahead of us.
As I went in, I could descry Wisting a little way off kneeling on the ground, and engaged in the manufacture of cutlets.
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