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

Thus shines the wretched butterfly, With iridescent wing doth flap When captured in a schoolboy's cap; Thus shakes the hare when suddenly She from the winter corn espies A sportsman who in covert lies.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

Now, from the stern, the Dardans he espies, Hemmed in their camp.

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

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