I fancy that he went spying in the attic on a rainy day.

" "I left the Boy and O'Flynn at supper-time and went down to the Little Cabin to" "To see what I was doin'to spy on me.

He was, no doubt, a spy of "The Strangler's," who had followed me all the way from Abo, and had only entered my carriage for the final stage of the journey.

The Confederates had suspected him of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him too closely to allow an opportunity to get away from them sooner.

This is no place to make a longer stay in, The King has many Spies about the Prince, 'Twere good you would retire to your Apartment.

Eivé closed the door, and Davilo and I, hastily and unperceived, followed the spy to the gate of the enclosure.

You must spy at it through your fingers, to catch the aërial perspectivethough you assure him that to you the landscape shows much more agreeable without that artifice.

In the same movement, however, he raised head and shoulders to spy through the chink.

Meanwhile volunteers from each party went over to both sides, senators as well as others, and Lucius Messius was caught as a spy by Caesar.

The night had now grown very black around us, and we were well protected, for the men in the glow had their eyes dazed, and could not spy into the darkness.

The spy from Abo had seen me on the railway platform on my departure from Petersburg.

The day is warm; a white cloud spies over the cañon wall, slips up behind the ridge to cross it by some windy pass, obscures your sun.

You are as crafty a spy as any rat in the palace cellars.

The record of her approval is, "By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace.

He chooseth rather to be counted a spy than not a politician, and maintains his reputation by naming great men familiarly.

Well, it is time, I daresay, when I permit myself to be duped and overreached by police spies like your persevering father and lover.

He is writing a story of the war and our dark memorandum is just a little literary note of his about a spy among the American forces.

The court condemned him to execution as a spy before nine o'clock on the morning following the trial, the president, however, expressing his intention of riding to Washington's headquarters and urging a remission of the punishment.

tis not yet investedthese be divers of Benedict's spies out of Bourne, to grace thy gibbets.

Having ridden for a little space beneath the trees, he spied within a leafy thicket a fair white hart, whiter even than snow on winter branches.

For if you don't, by God, I'll deal with you so that you'll do no more spying in this world!

CHAPTER XIV HER HIGHNESS IS INQUISITIVE Instantly the danger was apparent, and instead of driving back to the hotel, I called out to the man to take me to the Moscow railway station, in order to put the spy off the scent.

"What are you doing spying around the yard here, anyhow?"

Michelangelo, we know, was extremely impatient of control and interference; and we shall see, within a short time, how excessively the watching and spying of busybodies worried and disturbed his spirits.

I spy After rough tempests a more open skye.