espial

Example Sentences

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Quite into fairyland they had come now, in truth; as if, skirting the dark peak that shut it off from ordinary espial, they had lighted on a bypath that led them covertly in.

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

Thus urged by our despairing lord, we made Th’ espial.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

"Cry, cries, crying, cried, crier, decrial; Shy, shyer, shyest, shyly, shyness; Fly, flies, flying, flier, high-flier; Sly, slyer, slyest, slyly, slyness; Spy, spies, spying, spied, espial; Dry, drier, driest, dryly, dryness."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

It was even possible, he thought, that, if she had not herself seen Cecily, some one in her employment had made the espial for her.

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George

The flow'r grew wild and rankly as the weed, Roses with thistles struggled for espial, And vagrant plants of parasitic breed Had overgrown the Dial.

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas