espy
verb (used with object)
to see at a distance; catch sight of.
unespied
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a word derived from
espy.
Example Sentences
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Where the remote Bermudas ride In the ocean's bosom unespied, From a small boat that row'd along The listening woods received this song.
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave
When mortals are at rest, And snoring in their nest, Unheard and unespied, Through keyholes we do glide; Over tables, stools, and shelves, We trip it with our fairy elves.
From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
When mortals are at rest, And snorting in their nest, Unheard and unespied Through keyholes we do glide: Over tables, stools, and shelves.
From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
Plays are like towns, which, howe'er fortified By engineers, have still some weaker side, By the o'er-seen defendant unespied.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
His prudence kept him from refusing the present; Dut his pride determined him, on his departure, to bury it while he fancied that he was unespied by all the world.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John by David Hume
