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espies

verb as in catch sight of

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

And Belarus are picking their passes better when they break, Volodko taking possession and haring through midfield; he espies Kornilenko running across the line, but can’t quite feed the ball through to him.

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

He knows that she is his unwillingly, a victim, not a mistress; and behind every bush beside the road and behind every mask in the crowd be espies a rival.

At this moment, however, the leader espies a small tuft of grass on the face of the desert, and, reasoning that water must be flowing somewhere underneath, inspires his exhausted followers to new exertions.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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