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

They were no more than fair flowers to the man who espies the coils of a snake among the blossoms.

From In Kings' Byways by Weyman, Stanley John

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

And if we pass from this profound knowledge of the objects to the empirical knowledge, to the external perception of bodies, it is in immense number that one espies around one traps laid by nature.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred