espies
VERB
catch sight of
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Example Sentences
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All night the storm had raged, nor ceased nor paused, When, as day broke, the maid, through misty air, Espies far off a wreck, amid the surf, Beating on one of those disastrous isles.
From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Hope, Eva