espial
Example Sentences
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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
"But here, my lord," answered one of the youths, "is a knave who comes on treacherous espial!"
From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
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 Francis Lynde
The flow'r grew wild and rankly as the weed, Roses with thistles struggled for espial, And vagrant plants of parasitic breed Had overgrown the Dial.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
So they held their peace, and arranged between them to keep her in watch and close espial, that they might catch her unawares.
From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg
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