espial

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At the moment of my espial, Cornwallis was speaking, and I drew back to listen, well enough content to be in earshot.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

Her system of espial is even more minute and irritating than that of Russia.

From The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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

"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

Wondering we come into this lodge of watchmen, this office of espial; let us not retreat astonished and ashamed.

From Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Stearns, Frank Preston