2101 examples of spy in sentences

Sullenly, but with the alternative of prison staring him in the face, he had admitted to impersonating the foreign spy.

The next Instance of Opticks is the famous Argus, who (to speak in the Language of Cambridge) was one of an Hundred; and being used as a Spy in the Affairs of Jealousy, was obliged to have all his Eyes about him.

I am, SIR, Your most humble Servant, Abraham Spy.

"What right have you to play the spy upon me thus?" he faltered.

The codling told us that a Rebel spy had been caught trying its fords a little while ago, and was now at Camp Curtin with a heavy ball chained to his leg,a popular story, but a lie, Dr. Wilson said.

When to the withybed we spy, A hungry hern or mallard fly, "Bedad!

"My dog is good to catch a hen, A duck and goose is vood vor men; And where good company I spy, Oh, thether gwoes my dog and I. "Droo aal the world, owld Gaarge would bwoast, Commend me to merry owld England mwoast; While vools gwoes scramblin' vur and nigh, We bides at whoam, my dog and I.

"Another spy to look over the store and report to the Board of Health that our plumbing is out of order!

" "Were he not so accredited," returned Hastings, "I should question the truth of a man who can thus consent to play the spy upon his lord and superior.

He played the spy, and you tampered with him.

than half a mile to the east of their camp, and they had an idea that the spy, Garay, might pass that way, two of them always abiding by the trail, while the third remained in their secluded camp or hunted game.

" They crept through the bushes until they could have reached out and touched the spy with the muzzles of their rifles, and still he did not stir.

They intended to make the surprise complete and Robert, with a memory of the treacherous shot in Albany, was willing also to fill the soul of the spy with terror.

Then all the faculties of Garay, spy and attempted assassin, leaped into life, and he uttered a yell of terror, springing to his feet, as if he had been propelled by a galvanic battery.

Close behind him came the avenging two. CHAPTER V TAMING A SPY Young Lennox undeniably felt exultation.

Surely the face of Areskoui was still turned toward them, and the gods, having had their play, were benevolent of moodthat is, so far as Robert and Tayoga were concerned, although the spy might take a different view of the matter.

I was turned back about ten ways I tried, and wound up by being arrested as a spy an' darn near gettin' shot.

A couple of years later, came the big row in the Balkans, and the war had hardly started before dad was arrested as a spy.' 'Henkel did that?' put in Burney.

The spy had locked the door on the outside.

He had, of course, already heard of Ken's adventure with the spy in the bathroom, but took him aside to get further particulars.

'Kemp, that spy scoundrelare you sure?' 'Dead certain, though I can't imagine how he got here.'

After dashing off a culpable example, "Sidmouth, with Oliver the spye, have brought Brandreth to the block;" or, as his late editions have it, "The Tyrant, with the Spy, have brought Peter to the block."

If we mean, that the act has been done by the Tyrant himself, and that the spy has been a mere involuntary agent, then we ought to use the singular; but if we believe that the spy has been a co-operator, an associate, an accomplice, then we must use the plural verb."

If we mean, that the act has been done by the Tyrant himself, and that the spy has been a mere involuntary agent, then we ought to use the singular; but if we believe that the spy has been a co-operator, an associate, an accomplice, then we must use the plural verb."

JOHNSON, THOMAS M. Our secret war; true American spy stories, 1917-1919.

2101 examples of  spy  in sentences