espies

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A man who stops for gas a sign espies That says a dog out back has quite a knack.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020

Behind peppy songs like “Singin’ in the Rain”  and “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” Mr. Mac espies a frantic need to forget those horrors.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2015

Thus shines the wretched butterfly, With iridescent wing doth flap When captured in a schoolboy's cap; Thus shakes the hare when suddenly She from the winter corn espies A sportsman who in covert lies.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

At the Valley of Blood she espies other unfortunates.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis

But most of all, his Mother dear, She who had fainted with her fear, Rejoiced when waking she espies The Child; when she can trust her eyes,       And touches the blind Boy.

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell