espial
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The lover's endless minutes slowly pass'd; The dame return'd, and whisper'd in his ear To follow her; with aged eyes aghast From fright of dim espial.
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by M. (Margaret) Robertson
Then wisdom altered its method and spoke of espial and discovery.
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"Their purpose, madam," replied the Lady of Lochleven, "they must themselves explain—but a formal annunciation were needless, where your Grace hath attendants who can play the espial so well."
From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
"But here, my lord," answered one of the youths, "is a knave who comes on treacherous espial!"
From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
Presently he moved forward, and, with head still bent, approached the lower end of the garden, where, in a wall higher than that over which Goldthorpe made his espial, there was a wooden door.
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
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