espies
Example Sentences
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A man who stops for gas a sign espies That says a dog out back has quite a knack.
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020
Behind peppy songs like “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” Mr. Mac espies a frantic need to forget those horrors.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2015
And if we pass from this profound knowledge of the objects to the empirical knowledge, to the external perception of bodies, it is in immense number that one espies around one traps laid by nature.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
Terror-struck, he inquires whence it comes, and then espies the corpse.
From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell
The hunter trembles when he espies in the thicket the royal hart whose existence has been called a fable.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various
