336 collocations for spied

Here we halted in a thick clump of cedars, while he and Ringan went forward to spy out the land.

the Devil's in these Women, and there be but a Loop-hole to peep out of they'll spy a man,I'm resolved to see this thing,go, retire, you Women, here's Men coming up. Isa.

God is all-seeing, all-hearing, about our path and about our bed, and spying out all our ways.

But ere we did this, Dawson, spying the great sail lying out on the water, bethought him to hack out a great sheet as far as we could reach, and this he took to lay over the started plank and staunch the leakage, while I severed the tackle and freed us from the great weight of the hanging mast and long spar.

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

"I had searched the hall-rack for them; I had searched his closets; and was about owning myself to be on a false trail, when I spied this little door.

Cameron now felt convinced that this party of Peigans, into whose hands Joe Blunt and Henri had fallen, were nothing else than a war party, and that the men now before him were a scouting party sent out from them, probably to spy out his own camp, on the trail of which they had fallen, so he said to them: "The Peigans are not wise men; they tell lies to the traders.

One morning just at sunrise the fifteen or sixteen men were traveling along on foot in single file through a deep canon of the mountains, when one of them spied on a ledge far above them the head and shoulders of a great mountain sheep which seemed to be looking over the valley.

It was with great relief that I spied the light in the stables, making a sort of oasis in the darkness.

Most improbable, all this, and contradictory; you told me but just before, that the earth was so little by its great distance, that you could scarce find it, and, if it had not been for the Colossus, it would not have appeared at all; and now, on a sudden, like another Lynceus, you can spy out men, trees, animals, nay, I suppose, even a flea's nest, if you chose it. MENIPPUS.

This Nazarene is going to disguise himself as one of us, in order to spy out our country.

And there were eyes that from long silken lashes With stolen glance could spy his secret pain Sweet hazel eyes, whose dewy light out-flashes Like joyous day-spring after summer rain; And she, the enchantress, loved the youth again With maiden's first affection, fond and true,

They weptand, turning homeward, cried, "In heaven we all shall meet;" When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet.

I have at the distance of half a mile through a green lane a forest all my own, for I spy no human thing in it but myself.

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.

Flee, poor wretch, upon thy road, before he spies thee.

When, moreover, the baronet is examining the house at night with his lens, he believes that Ul-Jabal is spying his movements; when he extends his operations to the park, the other finds pretexts to be near him.

We made rapid progress on our journey, and nothing worthy of note happened until one afternoon, along the banks of the Little Blue River, we spied a band of Indians hunting on the opposite side of the stream, three miles away.

The blacks threatened them continually, though at times they would lay down their arms and bring pieces of fish and turtle into the camp; but this only the better to spy out their weakness.

And we came nearer, till I could spy her face, her smile, and I shouted her to stop, and in a minute stopped myself, and by happy steering came with slowing headway to a slight crash by her side, and ran down the trellised steps to her, and led her up; and on the deck, without saying a word, I fell to my knees before her, and I bowed my brow to the floor, with obeisance, and I worshipped her there as Heaven.

When I reached the Tree Man's the wind didn't stop for me, but I spied that child, Ivra, just where I knew she'd be,racing and chasing and dancing with the Snow Witches out at the edge of the wood.

I who am now regularly on the palace-roof at dawn, sometimes from between the pavilion-curtains of the galleries, or from the steps of the telescope-kiosk, may spy her far down below, a dainty microscopic figure, generally running about the sward, or gazing up in wonder at the palace from the lake-edge.

Walking a little farther, I spied some boats, and told my companions that we would go into the Buller and examine it.

While they were wandering in the woods in search of more solid nourishment, Virginia spied a young palm tree.

The Mother turning homeward cried, "We never more shall meet," When in the driven snow she spied MS.]

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