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
He espies the particular niche which suits him perfectly, and he calmly descends a few rungs of the ladder and steps off into oblivion.
From Aliens by McFee, William
Ship in sight is none; three stags he espies straying on the shore; behind whole herds follow, and graze in long train across the valley.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
When darkness has fallen, out comes the ghost and prowling about espies the heap of yams and taro.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
