espial

Example Sentences

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The system of espial, too, was carried out with increased severity.

From The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Yonge, Charles Duke

They heard a vehicle draw up before the house, and Barbara, making cautious espial from the windows, exclaimed that it was Mr. Musselwhite.

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George

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 Hood, Thomas

From his new point of espial Kent checked off the members of the party.

From The Grafters by Lynde, Francis

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