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It is proposed to form this ascending column of air by kindling large fires which, Mr. Espy says, are known to produce rain.
THE RAIN CLOUDANONYMOUSHe would espy the beauty of an old binding through any amount of abrasion and laceration.
THERE AND BACKGEORGE MACDONALDHe had such remarkable eyesight that he could espy the ear of a squirrel projecting above the highest limb of a tall white oak.
TALES OF LONELY TRAILSZANE GREYKing Eterscél's folk espy that house and suppose that it was food that the cowherds kept there.
THE HARVARD CLASSICS, VOLUME 49, EPIC AND SAGAVARIOUSEspy still lived, still loved her; they might yet be restored to each other.
SIGNING THE CONTRACT AND WHAT IT COSTMARTHA FINLEYBut God had another work to work than the eyes of men could espy.
THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF RELIGION IN SCOTLANDJOHN KNOXBut no one came, as I expected, neither could I espy a light.
LORNA DOONER. D. BLACKMOREAs soon as you enter the town and pass up the main street, you espy groups of the students here and there.
ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS;HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTHHer sharp eyes would espy him from afar, and she might ask Lesley if he had been to church with her.
BROOKE'S DAUGHTERADELINE SERGEANTThitherward I straight dispatch Certain of these my scouts, who shall espy If any on the surface bask.
THE VISION OF HELL, COMPLETEDANTE ALIGHIERIWORDS RELATED TO ESPY
- ascertained
- caught
- descried
- disclosed
- distinguished
- dug up
- encountered
- espied
- exposed
- found
- hit on
- hit upon
- identified
- met
- met with
- nose out
- noted
- noticed
- observed
- recognized
- revealed
- saw
- scented
- smelled out
- smoked out
- spotted
- stumbled on
- tracked down
- tumble into
- turned up
- uncovered
- unmasked
- wise up to
- anticipate
- apprehend
- ascertain
- behold
- descry
- detect
- determine
- difference
- differentiate
- discover
- discrepate
- discriminate
- distinguish
- divine
- espy
- extricate
- figure out
- find out
- focus
- foresee
- get a load of
- get the picture
- get wise to
- judge
- know
- make distinction
- make out
- note
- notice
- observe
- perceive
- pick out
- read
- remark
- rubberneck
- secern
- see the light
- see through
- separate
- severalize
- spot
- take in
- view
- anticipated
- apprehended
- ascertained
- beheld
- descried
- detected
- determined
- differenced
- differentiated
- discovered
- discrepated
- discriminated
- distinguished
- divined
- espied
- extricated
- figured out
- focused
- foresaw
- found out
- got a load of
- got the picture
- got wise to
- judged
- knew
- made distinction
- made out
- noted
- noticed
- observed
- perceived
- picked out
- read
- remarked
- rubbernecked
- saw the light
- saw through
- secerned
- separated
- severalized
- spotted
- took in
- viewed
- ascertain
- bring to light
- catch
- come across
- come upon
- conceive
- contrive
- debunk
- design
- detect
- determine
- devise
- dig up
- discern
- disclose
- distinguish
- elicit
- espy
- explore
- ferret out
- get wind of
- get wise to
- glimpse
- hear
- identify
- invent
- learn
- light upon
- locate
- look up
- nose out
- notice
- observe
- originate
- perceive
- pick up on
- pioneer
- realize
- recognize
- reveal
- see
- sense
- smoke out
- spot
- think of
- turn up
- unearth
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.