An army of engineers, directed by the Minister of the Interior, spread over the country, and ordered like an army, continually spy the enemy, watch over the internal waters, foresee the bursting of the dikes, order and direct the defensive works.

He spied about him cautiously until he learned that Mr. Dunborough had departed; then he went boldly to the stables, and inquired and found that the gentleman had started for Bristol in a post-chaise.

On the morning of the eventful Thursday, Scythrop ascended the turret with a telescope and spied anxiously along the road, till Raven summoned him to dinner at five, when he descended to his own funeral feast.

*atender a* heed, listen to; attend *atento* attentive; *su y seguro servidor* sincerely yours *atisbar* take a peep; spy out *atrás* backwards *atravesar* cross; pierce *atreverse a* dare *atrevido* bold *atribuir* attribute *atufarse* be angry *aturdir* stun, bewilder *aún* yet; still; even; when placed before the word modified it is written without the accent *aunque* although *ausencia*

She felt as if she were basely spying.

He wore his hair short like a convict's, so that one could spy the fish-white flesh beneath, and delighted to play solitary about the stairs of the hotel, dressed up in the white balloon-dress of a Pierrot.

I boarded and overhauled her during three hours, her upper, main, and armoured deck, deck by deck, to her lowest black depths, even childishly spying up the tubes of her two big, rusted turret-guns.

"The boys say," growled Waugh to Howells, "that he acts like one of them damn spying dude sons proprietors sometimes puts in among the men to learn how to work 'em harder for less.

Whether he spied Dolly first and hoped that the gleam from her many jewels would light up the path in his search for Truth and a few other things, or whether the Seeker was sought, I do not know.

As Feodor opened the door, his comrades rushed screaming and laughing uproariously into the room, spying round eagerly for the poor woman, the noble game which they had hunted down.

Unfortunately I did not have with me at the time a very helpful letter from Colonel Roosevelt, ending with the statement that the bearer "is an American citizen, a non-combatant, and emphatically not a spy."

And I had not parted myself here a couple of minutes, ere I spied a team of four stout horses coming over the brow of the hill, drawing the stage waggon behind them which plies betwixt Sevenoaks and London.

He was not a human beinghe was an observer, eternally spying through a small slit in the wall of the dug- out.

Fred fortunately spied the donkey, and though there had been lately a little emulation between them, who should grow the finest dahlias, he at once carried out the principle of returning good for evil, drove the donkey off, even though his course lay over his own flower beds, and then set to work to repair the damage done.

Suppose now it were a man in this long-drawn, hungrily spied upon distress!

Then Madame la Comtesse de Lorgneswhoever she ismust get her feet wet, an excellent excuse for asking to be introduced to your boudoir, so she may change her shoes and stockings and incidentally spy out the precise location of your safe.

Coming into still more open forest, with rocks here and there, I caught sight of R.C. far ahead, and soon I had glimpses of the other horses, and lastly, while riding full tilt, I spied a big, black, glistening bear high up in a pine a hundred yards or more distant.

Tell me: do you know anybody in Indian Spring who would likely spy upon you?" The young girl was conscious of a certain ill-defined uneasiness, but answered, "No."

I didn't dream of spying oneither of you.

She spied a small grocer's shop nearly opposite not yet shut up.

And presently, I spied outward to the West, as it did seem a good mile off in the night, the shining of a fire-hole; and I began to plan that I should come unto that place, and have warmth and dryness, and food and slumber.

Then, his eye roving to the loftier shelves, he spied remotely above him a stuffed blue jay mounted on a varnished branch of oak.

" "Well, all rightmaybe I was spying, too.

But almost simultaneously they spied a public park, which appeared to offer a favorable landing place.

" "That sly Mary Marcy, she's always spying 'round," whispered Nelly to her companion, as they passed along.