espial

Example Sentences

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Her mother’s small mind yet had an uncanny power of partial divination, gained from years of experience and espial, that irritated while it impressed.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday

I saw not what was to be gained by any such long-range espial in the darkness.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

At the moment of my espial, Cornwallis was speaking, and I drew back to listen, well enough content to be in earshot.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

"But here, my lord," answered one of the youths, "is a knave who comes on treacherous espial!"

From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir

She did not intend an espial upon Anthony; the question was born of pain and bewilderment.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)