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So all ere day-spring, under conscious night, Secret they finished, and in order set, With silent circumspection, unespied.

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

His prudence kept him from refusing the present; but 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, Volume I by Hume, David

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

But not on the Helper Hermes did sleep take hold as he sought within his heart how he should guide forth king Priam from the ships unespied of the trusty sentinels.

From The Iliad by Homer

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 Hume, David