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Eagles that flew high over the warm bright Mediterranean last week could have espied a slim black object floating on the water beneath them.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the dimness of its dreary day few things even in that land of vigilance could have espied them, save from close at hand.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

And therefore let us hold us together till it be day, and when their host have espied that their chieftains be slain, they will make such dole that they shall no more help themselves.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Though some be lies, as you belike have espied them, Yet other some be true, by proof I have well tried them.

From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Art, Mr. S. Mr. of

"Now give me my spear," said Arthur unto Sir Lucan, "for yonder I have espied the traitor that all this woe hath wrought."

From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by Cutler, U. Waldo