How To Use Espy In A Sentence

  • And we could even espy the flashing red, blue and silver uniforms of the Prussian soldiery themselves. ANTI-ICE
  • It's a pretty good story, and trying to espy its "interstitial" qualities adds nothing to its appeal. Experimental Fiction
  • And just occasionally, you espy the essential strength that the family represents and realise it is a marvel of human achievement. Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett
  • Espy once crisply defined as "dissuasive advice given with authority. 'Neverisms': 11 Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, Never Forget (PHOTOS)
  • Then I straightway did espy, with my slantly-sloping eye, The Bon Gaultier Ballads
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  • But in David Stratoun, could onlye be espyed, for the first, a haterent against the pride and avaritiousnes of the preastis; for the causse of his delatioun was, he had maid to him self ane fische boit to go to the sea. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
  • Espy still winces a little as he recalls a homecoming game at his daughter's high school.
  • Where love fails, we espy all faults. 
  • Some elements of the gold market, the rabid goldbugs, do espy a very dark and broken future. Gold Shines in the Big Selloff
  • And being given not merely to fleece but utterly to flay men, they no sooner espy a foreign merchant in the city, than they find out from the book of the dogana how much he has there and what he is good for; and then by caressing and amorous looks and gestures, and words of honeyed sweetness, they strive to entice and allure the merchant to their love, and not seldom have they succeeded, and wrested from him great part or the whole of his merchandise; and of some they have gotten goods and ship and flesh and bones, so delightsomely have they known how to ply the shears. The Decameron, Volume II
  • Whereupon I espy this Italian place I've never tried before. Takin' a Break
  • Supposing Blair is correct, and parents do espy special, precious things that childless adults never can, it would still be reassuring to know that these are not outweighed by the associated burdens of exhaustion, continual interruption and prime ministerial anxiety about how to blag a first-class education without going private. Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett
  • Any museum-goer who has peeped through the eyeholes in the rough wooden-door façade of Marcel Duchamp's "Etant Donnés" 1946-66 and caught sight of that work's sprawling, naked, female mannequin will get a sense of what espying Eiko and Koma feels like. In a Place of Dreams and Dreamers
  • The JWST, which unlike Hubble can make images in the infrared, could espy this initial burgeoning of stars and their homes -- the earliest galaxies. Seth Shostak: American Space Research: An Also-Ran?
  • If any wayfarying man shuld espy a man sette vppon with thieues, or otherwyse to be wronged, and dyd not to his power succour and ayde hym, he was gyltie of death. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • Espying her son, now released, in the distance, she is unable to contain her maternal joy.
  • Results jimthespy 24 points zotz 15 points - thought you'd get a few, good-oh stickismyfriend another mighty 15 points, mostly by knowing or guessing artists smallbeasts 14 points seemingly without trying swisstone in the middle there with 11 points snowking 8 points nuttyxander 8 points, with slightly different answers from Hoggy above darling_effect 4 points + another 4 belatedly monocat 6 points asajeffrey 6 points brixtonbrood 4 points from Her and 2 more from Him badasstronaut 4 points bugshaw 4 points crazycrone 4 points concourse 4 points jinxremoving 2 points Lyrics quiz
  • Where love fails, we espy all faults. 
  • And lastly the one who is leading the charge is a former citizen of the former Federalist Socialist Communistic espy ally dough shist Russia. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Where love fails, we espy all faults. 
  • We espy the professor and his assistant in the distance and amble over to them.
  • Later, I am in a supermarket, and I espy a former teacher whom I did not like.
  • Supposing Blair is correct, and parents do espy special, precious things that childless adults never can, it would still be reassuring to know that these are not outweighed by the associated burdens of exhaustion, continual interruption and prime ministerial anxiety about how to blag a first-class education without going private. Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett
  • The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
  • Further, Espy speaks about epiphora on pages 174 and 205 as a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
  • So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland. Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware
  • Only when they were in the shadow of All Hallows Church did the bailiff espy the Countess and give chase. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • She probably wanted to be a very great artist, he felt, espying a deeper ambition precisely because it was buried. A Happy Marriage
  • Here, from a window, did Guinevere espy a knight standing in a woodman's cart.
  • And we could even espy the flashing red, blue and silver uniforms of the Prussian soldiery themselves. ANTI-ICE
  • ‘I want that,’ my sister Molly says, espying my purchase.
  • Here, from a window, did Guinevere espy a knight standing in a woodman's cart.
  • Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy? Boing Boing
  • Espying a sinister pattern behind these events, Grose bemoans what she characterizes as a horrid resurgence of puritanism that has become a common attitude among young females and is somehow perverting even once-sensible feminists such as Ms. Klausner: Political Mavens
  • Gadget, Dear Fellow, mine eye did espy that a new author would be blogging soon. Blog Today, Gone Tomorrow! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • The OED's example is from a seventeenth-century dictionary, whose explanation of epiphora closely parallels the Rev. Peacham's as Mr. Espy quotes it on p. 178. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
  • That aside is vintage Espy, vintage cute -- in the old sense of acute, as W.R. E. reminds us in discussing aphaeresis, the "loss of an initial letter or syllable. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2
  • Where love fails, we espy all faults. 
  • Only when they were in the shadow of All Hallows Church did the bailiff espy the Countess and give chase. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • And the Red Knight was a wily knight of war, and his wily fighting taught Sir Beaumains to be wise; but he abought it full sore or he did espy his fighting. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • If I espy a weed trying to masquerade as one of my plants I just yank it out.
  • But in a while, espying the woman coming thitherwards, I rose and tramped on again with no thought but to save myself from her companionship. Martin Conisby's Vengeance

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