espy

• There was one which Pauline was the first to espy, as they approached it under the arch of a bridge. —  A Venetian June
• Yet can I not espy, by no wise How this child born should be without nature's prejudice 1st Prophet. —  "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
• But on the left was a narrow crevice, very difficult to espy, and having a sweep of grey ivy laid, like a slouching beaver, over it. —  Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor
• After entering the hall one of them will espy (such, I suppose, is the fiction) some persons to whom she wishes to bow, and she then proceeds to execute a performance of some minutes' duration. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873
• Argal_, it was promptly pointed out--and I espy the dark phrase constantly adorning leading articles to this day--the man who said that Danton sombrely acquiesced in the doings of Billaud, Collet, and the rest, must of necessity, being of a firm and logical mind, himself sombrely acquiesce in moonlighting and cattle-houghing in Ireland. —  Studies in Literature

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