All 5 Uses
descry
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Great Expectations
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- One Sunday when Joe, greatly enjoying his pipe, had so plumed himself on being "most awful dull," that I had given him up for the day, I lay on the earthwork for some time with my chin on my hand, descrying traces of Miss Havisham and Estella all over the prospect, in the sky and in the water, until at last I resolved to mention a thought concerning them that had been much in my head.†
p. 116.8descrying = seeing
- Mr. Wopsle in a comprehensive black cloak, being descried entering at the turnpike, the gravedigger was admonished in a friendly way, "Look out!†
p. 270.1descried = saw
- When we gradually fell into keeping late hours and late company, I noticed that he looked about him with a desponding eye at breakfast-time; that he began to look about him more hopefully about mid-day; that he drooped when he came into dinner; that he seemed to descry Capital in the distance, rather clearly, after dinner; that he all but realized Capital towards midnight; and that at about two o'clock in the morning, he became so deeply despondent again as to talk of buying a rifle and going to America, with a general purpose of compelling buffaloes to make his fortune.†
p. 291.1descry = see
- I then descried Mr. and Mrs. Hubble; the last-named in a decent speechless paroxysm in a corner.†
p. 298.4 *descried = saw
- At length we descried a light and a roof, and presently afterwards ran alongside a little causeway made of stones that had been picked up hard by.†
p. 468.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(descry) catch sight of
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)