In going along one of the flats, before we discovered the creek, Mr. Browne and I had chased a Dipus into a hollow log, and there secured it.
Westward the outer line of hills continued backed by others, in the outlines of which we recognised the peaks and forms of the apparently lofty chain we first saw when we discovered the creek.
At that moment a huge wave, sinking before her, discovered the object of her fears, straining along the surface of a rock, and followed by the men in the same laborious task, tugging forward the ropes to which the bark was attached.
A shrill wind pierced the slight covering of the litter, and blowing it aside, discovered the mist; or the gleaming of some wandering water, as it glided away over the cheerless waste.
In this passage he discovered the islands of Amirante, in four degrees of south latitude.
But, Mr. Brewster, you haven't even seen the hole inside of that cave, where I followed after Polly the day we discovered the gold!
I wrote mother just after we discovered the mine, and told her how unhappy Barbara was in this forgotten corner of the earth.
It was further argued in the Crown's behalf that Columbus had not been the chief instrument of the first discovery and had not discovered the mainland, but that other voyagers had anticipated him.
He discovered the Terra do Labrador, which he named apparently because he thought its natives would increase very handily the slave labor of Portugal.
They began, therefore, to send out expeditions, and in 1410 discovered the island of Madeira.
It discovered the imprudence of Edward, who had taken his measures so ill with his allies as to be obliged, after such an expensive armament, to return without making any acquisitions adequate to it.
La Salle himself, in a memorial addressed to Count Frontenac in 1677, affirms that he discovered the Ohio, and descended it as far as to a fall which obstructed it.
This map was evidently made after that voyage of La Salle in which he discovered the Illinois, or at least the Des Plaines branch of it.
Upon this point, which was narrow, and consisted of the finest white sand we had ever seen, we discovered the footsteps of people, and we saw also smoke and fire at a distance up the country.
The finder having accidentally lost his gun-flint, went to the spot to look for a flint to replace it, and in searching about he discovered the antique.
Frank led the way to the top of the cliff, and, after a short search, discovered the entrance to the upper passage-way.
Dick had told him that more than one sharp-eyed Comanche had looked for it in vain, and for a long time Frank thought he should meet with no better success; but at last he discovered the entrance by stepping into it accidentally.
Still he hesitated to try it, until he discovered the Indians, and then he found that he had no alternative.
It was so dark that he could scarcely see his hand before him; but, after a few moments' search, he discovered the cubs, nicely covered up in a bed of leaves.
In 1892, Cross and Bevan, English chemists, discovered the viscose or xanthate process, and later the acetate process.
You may remember what I said on a former page about the career of William Henry Perkin, the boy who loved chemistry better than eating, and how he discovered the coal-tar dyes.
A faint breeze blowing aside the curtains, discovered the summit of the woods in the garden, and beyond, a wide expanse of country, terminated by plains of sea and hazy promontories.
He was making straight for the place where we discovered the petrol, but stopped half way.
Even more to his surprise, he discovered the driver to be Mrs. Daplin-Gennery, and that her companion was her nephew, Lieutenant Ingoldsby.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discovered the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
