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Usage examples of espy.

Yet how should he not go to Utterbol with the Damsel abiding deliverance of him there: and yet again, if they met there and were espied on, would not that ruin everything for her as well as for him?

The patronesses would be appalled to espy a serious thought on the premises.

Ali Baba, truly a prince among paupers, did indeed espy his brother, Kassim, traversing his nearby gate.

Espying the bright fountain near at hand, she hastened thither, and scooped up a portion of its water, in a cup of birchen bark.

Many is the time I have espied you gazing longingly at the boisterous crowds in alehouses.

Herself had espied him a bit down the road, and was standing at the door to receive him with his discarded caubeen in her hand.

Sutter landed his combo in a suitable parking place in Android City, walked to the street, and presently espied Dan, Peter II, Peter III, and Anita II coming toward him.

Peering through the foliage, she espied Edd striding up the lane, leading two saddled horses.

Climbing up an espalier, he soon reached the top, and looking down on the other side, to his horror and rage espied the mad laird on the ground, and the very men of whom he had been in pursuit, standing over him and brutally tormenting him, apparently in order to make him get up and go along with them.

In her eagerness to confront the pair after espying the coach lanterns emerging from the tree-shrouded lane, Melora had caught up her skirts and raced ahead of Charles.

Percy approached the fretfully pacing Bentley, who, upon espying him, hurried forward to meet him with the hope that he had encouraging news.

Upon espying him beside them again, Genevieve squealed in glee and pumped her tiny arms up and down as if coaxing him to take her.

At his sudden approach, her heart had nearly leapt into her throat, but she had raced out, telling him over her shoulder that she had forgotten his bread and had to run back to the house to fetch it, which had actually been the truth and a fortuitous oversight she had decided after espying the vial.

And espying one along the edge of the stream, he plunged to secure it.

Ali glanced around and, espying her mistress, eagerly beckoned her forward.