Stas carefully placed the rifle at the bottom of each hillock; afterwards climbed to the top, and Descrying the hills blackly outlined on the background of the sky, descended and proceeded farther.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The ship having sprung a leak-or, indeed, more probably several, for the water poured in upon them apace-the crew, including the Caliph himself, became exhausted with continuous pumping, and the captain, therefore, Descrying a coast-line, determined to run the ship boldly ashore, in the hope that some of them at least might be saved.
"Tales of the Caliph"
H. N. Crellin
At 4 P.M. we were assured by a citizen on the bank that the gunboats really had retreated; and at 5.30 our doubts were set at rest, to our great satisfaction, by Descrying the Confederate flag flying from Fort Beauregard, high above the little town of Harrisonburg.
"Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863"
Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle