espies

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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

But most of all, his Mother dear, She who had fainted with her fear, Rejoiced when waking she espies The Child; when she can trust her eyes,       And touches the blind Boy.

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell

Fierce Volscens raves with anger, nor espies The wielder of the weapon, nor which way To rush, aflame with fury.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

The poet seated by a grave espies a skull.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various