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Updated: October 24, 2025
The third day he hove the Sally to; being a stout craft and not overladen she weathered the gale with the loss of a jib, and was about making topsails again when a full-rigged ship was descried in the offing giving signals of distress. Night was coming on very fast, and the sea was yet running too high for a boat to live, but the gallant captain furled his topsails once more to await the morning.
Hastily overturning the rubbish, her eyes descried in the dim light the identical red and green papered box familiar to her childhood.
In cold weather he was distinguished by a fur cap, surmounted with a flaunting fox's tail; and when the folks at a country gathering descried this well-known crest at a distance, whisking about among a squad of hard riders, they always stood by for a squall.
Oh, memorable day, when Sam got separated from his father in the Yass, and, looking back, saw a cloud of dust in the road, and dimly descried Rover, fighting valiantly against fearful odds, with all the dogs in the township upon him!
It was across this that Jennie Whitney descried, two days before, the return of her friends with the body of her father. She now ascended to the second story and peered long and frequently in the same direction, in the hope of catching sight of her brother. Meanwhile Capt. Asbury disposed of the members of his party as best he could.
Balfour's land, on the brow of Hindhead, is enclosed but not yet built upon, although a whole archipelago of cottages and villas is springing up amid the heather as the ground slopes towards Selborne White's Selborne that can dimly be descried to the westward beyond Liphook Common.
At last a flat table-land was reached, bounded in the far distance by an immense forest; and on a still nearer approach isolated white houses could be descried on the forest's edge, while on one side a tall water-tower reared itself high above the level ground. Captain von Wegstetten ordered his men to halt and dismount. The sixth battery had arrived the first.
For the tutor had in Richard a pupil of practised brain yet fresh, a live soul ready, for its own need and nourishment, to use every truth it came near. His penetrative habit made not a few regard him as a bore: their feeble vitality was troubled by the energy of his; he could not let a thing go in which he descried a principle: he must see it close!
She ushered him into the salon, where he had scarcely set foot, when he descried an old woman lounging on a causeuse, fanning herself as she chatted with Abbe Miollens.
"However, I don't want to say, Mr. Newnham, until I've investigated." Before the horses were ready Tom descried, half a mile away, on a clear bit of trail, a horseman riding in at a furious gallop. "There comes a messenger, Mr. Newnham," Tom went on. "We'll soon know just what the trouble is." "Trouble?" echoed Mr. Newnham, in astonishment. "Then you believe that is the word, do you?"
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