espial

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.

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

There is yet," he answered, having made espial; "for the attack goes but upon the street side, leaving the lane free.

At last, safe from every chance of espial, she sat down again in her chair before the desk, leaned her elbows on the desk, and looked desperately, miserably, into the joyous face of the picture.

Her system of espial is even more minute and irritating than that of Russia.