Synonyms for descry:
verb discover
Examples of uses:
Some paperwork commands my presence, but I shall doubtless descry those lugubrious liniments
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They can descry waveless water, seemingly as tranquil as a pond.
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Title: The Land of Fire, author: Mayne Reid, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25203/25203-h/25203-h.htm
He looked hard into the branches and their wilderness of fresh leaves, but could descry nothing.
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Title: There and Back, author: George MacDonald, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8879/8879-h/8879-h.htm
And yet, and yet—as I gazed I could descry a striking resemblance to our own waterhole except that this was more shut in.
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Title: A Frontier Mystery, author: Bertram Mitford, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32568/32568-h/32568-h.htm
He is so eager to descry differences, that he overlooks similarities—nay, identities.
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Title: America To-day, Observations and Reflections, author: William Archer, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7997/7997-h/7997-h.htm
They strung themselves out along the road, they went up to the hilltops, in order to descry the carriage sooner.
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Title: Brother Jacques (Novels of Paul de Kock, Volume XVII), author: Charles Paul de Kock, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40913/40913-h/40913-h.htm
They have wide streets, simply to embarrass you, by making it impossible to descry a shop or a friend.
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Title: George Eliot's Life, Vol. I (of 3), author: George Eliot, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43043/43043-h/43043-h.htm
This foot once planted on the goal, This glory-garland round my soul, Could I descry such?
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Title: Browning and the Dramatic Monologue, author: S. S. Curry, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35989/35989-h/35989-h.htm
"We're too late," groaned one of the men, as he peered through the darkness, trying to descry the hull of the vessel.
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Title: A Sailor's Lass, author: Emma Leslie, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21797/21797-h/21797-h.htm
And Forbes could descry the muffled outlines of fingers clutching the heavy fabric.
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Title: What Will People Say?, author: Rupert Hughes, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38311/38311-h/38311-h.htm
