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

Terror-struck, he inquires whence it comes, and then espies the corpse.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell

Denise cries as she espies Mr. Grandon, "if I had known you were here; I was afraid he would force his way in."

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

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