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Definition
catch sight of
- Dimly through the mists they could descry the long arm of the mountains rising on their left.3.8 — Book 3 Chapter 8 — The Road to Isengard (64% in)
- There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark.4.7 — Book 4 Chapter 7 — Journey to the Cross-roads (36% in)
There are no more uses of "descry" in The Two Towers.
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