1 They came at last to the land where thou wilt descry a city now great, New Carthage, and her rising citadel, and bought ground, called thence Byrsa, as much as a bull's hide would encircle.
2 And now reddening Dawn had chased away the stars, when we descry afar dim hills and the low line of Italy.
3 On this the Teucrians descry a sudden cloud of dark dust gathering, and the blackness rising on the plain.
4 If you allow us to use the chance towards seeking Aeneas in Pallanteum town, you will soon descry us here at hand with the spoils of the great slaughter we have dealt.
5 The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his attention.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW 6 There one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the windows of the Fine-Air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 7 From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt.
8 Nimbly springing up on the triangular raised box in the bow, the savage stood erect there, and with intensely eager eyes gazed off towards the spot where the chase had last been descried.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 9 Fedallah first descried this jet.
10 But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.
11 On the fourth day of the sail, a large canoe was descried, which seemed to have touched at a low isle of corals.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 12 The whole calamity, with the falling form of Macey, was plainly descried from the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. 13 But though the green palmy cliffs of the land soon loomed on the starboard bow, and with delighted nostrils the fresh cinnamon was snuffed in the air, yet not a single jet was descried.
14 Next day, a large ship, the Rachel, was descried, bearing directly down upon the Pequod, all her spars thickly clustering with men.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel. 15 The intense Pequod sailed on; the rolling waves and days went by; the life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most miserably misnamed the Delight, was descried.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 131. The Pequod Meets The Delight.