167 examples of descries in sentences
In contemplating these old mountain villages of New England, one descries slow modifications in the structure of society which threaten somewhat to lessen its dignity.
[Four lines lacking in the MS.] Yesterday the sullen year Saw the snowy whirlwind fly; Mute was the music of the air, The herd stood drooping by: Their raptures now that wildly flow No yesterday nor morrow know; 'Tis man alone that joy descries With forward and reverted eyes.
Oft when the winter storm had ceased to rave, He roamed the snowy waste at even, to view The cloud stupendous, from th' Atlantic wave High-towering, sail along th' horizon blue; Where, midst the changeful scenery, ever new, Fancy a thousand wondrous forms descries, More wildly great than ever pencil drew Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size, And glittering cliffs on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise.
Thus taught, the soul falsehood and truth descries.
While grief and hope alternate filled his breast. O'er vale and wild-wood led, he soon descries.
grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries.
Conceal that emptiness which age descries.
Then he directs his observations to the Pleiades, and counts forty stars in the cluster, when only six were visible to the naked eye; in the Milky Way he descries crowds of minute stars.
The well-turned neck and shoulders he descries, The spacious forehead, and the sparkling eyes; The hands that Bacchus might not scorn to show, And hair that round Apollo's head might flow, With all the purple youthfulness of face, That gently blushes in the watery glass.
At last some one descries the hand that holds the bone, or thinks so.
* * * "Upon the left bank of the stream the population is rare; from time to time one descries a troop of slaves loitering in the half-desert fields; the primeval forest recurs at every turn; society seems to be asleep, man to be idle, and nature alone offers a scene of activity and life.
the PAINT-KING when, behold, he descries Not a speck on his palette of black!
And while from part to part it flies The gentle Spirit he descries, Through every line pursuing; And feels upon his nature shower That pure, that humanizing power, Which raises by subduing.
Mr. HARRY DE WINDT descries "Roumania as I Knew It"; "A Suggestion for the Settlement of the Irish Problem" is offered by Mr. GINNELL, M.P.; and Mr. C.B. COCHRAN utters a disinterested plea for "The Small Theatre.
The Latmian shepherd in a trance descries, And, looking pale from height of all the skies, She dyes her beauties in a blushing red; While Sleep, in triumph, closed hath all eyes, And birds and beasts a silence sweet do keep, And Proteus' monstrous people in the deep, The winds and waves, hush'd up, to rest entice, I wake, I turn, I weep, oppress'd with pain, Perplex'd in the meanders of my brain.
Having never been obliged to work for pre-eminence, he descries exertion, and never admits that he has to try hard to win anything.
"Where, 'midst the changeful scen'ry ever new, Fancy a thousand wondrous forms descries.
Presently, by the side of the path, one comes to an object which seems romantically in keeping with the general character of the scenea long block of stone, lying among the grasses and the wild geraniums, on which, as one nears it, one descries carved scroll-work and quaint, deep-cut lettering.
WALTER (descries FÜRST and runs up to him).
Ye are too tender; Fortune has hours of loss, and hours of honour, And the most valiant feel them both: take comfort, The next is ours, I have a soul descries it: The angry bull never goes back for breath But when he means to arm his fury double.
If the angel on duty our coming descries You have nothing to do but throw off the disguise That you wore when you wandered with me; And the sentry will say: "Welcome back to the skies, We long have been waiting for thee!"
Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries.
The wise and virtuous soul, with clearer eyes, Before she parts, some happy port descries.
The Astronomer descries Worlds on worlds beyond our eyes; 'Neath the microscope weird things Erst unseen whirl round in rings; Hence it is that we indite Stanzas to the Phagocyte.
He is entering the wedge for what he declines to admit the possibility ofyet there must be moments when that eye of power pierces the clouds of prejudice and party, wherewith it seeks to blind its kingly vision, and descries the horrors beyond as the result of the acts he is now committing; and when such moments of clear conviction come to him, the ambitious tool of a party, I envy not his sensations," and she shook her head mournfully.