We came up very well in time; for the beast would doubtless have destroyed some one, had it not espied three of us advancing with guns.
I suppose I had not gone half a mile when, thrown behind some bushes, I espied the picture that the rogue had cut from its frame.
To my great joy I espied a stout crowbar, left, no doubt, by the men who had stowed the cargo.
Jane and Judith waited a moment before their partners espied them, and as they lingered they heard the girls commenting on Sally.
We were coming along Cobble Lane when Judith espied two messenger boys on the rail fence.
Jane saw them some seconds before they espied her, and quick as a flash she had a hand on each of the others.
The Wellingtons, with other followers, were now almost in front of the Town Hall, when the victim of this country prejudice espied Shirley.
And while we were here we espied a ship and set sail after her, and took her, and found in her two pilots and a Spanish governor, going for the islands of the Philippinas.
The 18th of May, our General thought it needful to have a care of such ships as were absent; and therefore endeavouring to seek the fly-boat wherein Master Doughty was, we espied her again the next day.
At that moment the two detectives were espied going past in a buggy.
Lemaire, passing at that instant, espied it, picked it up, and returned it to her with the bow of a polished man of the world.
Then, as soon as Benson was espied lying on the ground a rush was made in his direction.
One of the beasts, slinking slowly across the pavement some distance away, espied me.
For five days we pushed forward by short stages only, until at sunrise one day we espied an oasis, and, encamping in the small shade it afforded, Abu Talib decided to give the animals rest.
When the King found the reel at the bottom of it, he caused Allerleirauh to be summoned, and then he espied the white finger, and saw the ring which he had put on it during the dance.
It was not long before he espied one which was broad enough to let him in.
It happened to be then a great calm, and I espied a vessel about half a league from the shore.
Turning about, I espied a little group of men whose plain clothes stood out in contrast to the colored uniforms of officers and soldiers crowded into the cafe.
Who knows what their keen eyes may have espied along that brink?
His gaze was not directed to the north when the wolfespied him, but to the east.
And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
As he watched one of the dogs running in pursuit of a hare that had been started he espied afar off a horseman riding swiftly across the plain, almost hidden in a cloud of dust.
Presently heespied a large bird flying over from the westward.
He chanced to look across the water in the direction of the setting sun, and far away on the line of the horizon he espied a ridge of white cliffs.
When stationed at Amiens he was on duty one bitter cold day at the city gate, and espied a poor naked beggar asking alms.
The strangers had espied them, for they also crowded on canvas in pursuit.
Scarcely were the three ships out of sight of land when several sail were espied coming from the west.
Now on one hand, now on the other, islands were espied and visited; but no information was obtained.
I shook my head and resolutely cried, No, thank you, for that moment I espied Jane opening shutters, so I quickly pushed Aside the gate, and out exulting rushed.
Shortly after came Angelica, but, approaching in a different direction, she espied the other fountain, and there quenched her thirst.
By chance she espied on the bottom of the valley this pond of clear water, where the country people were at work gathering willows and osiers.
And then he espied that he had taken his armor and his horse.
Travelling thus alone, and on foot, I espied one day a pavilion, pitched near a fountain, and entered it, intent on adventure.
Rinaldo had now reached the scene of action, and was looking on as an unconcerned spectator, when he was espied by Galafron.
So the child espied his time, and lightly he took his horse with the spurs and departed as fast as he might.
As they approached the hermitage, they espied a knight riding in the forest, whom they at once recognized as Sir Launcelot.
They had not gone far, however, before they espied our hero, and at sight of him Joe stood stock-still and held his sides.
It was a warm July evening, and Benny espied the old man long before he got to him, sitting on a block of wood outside his hut, apparently buried in thought.
I made my search in an ever-widening circle, and at length espied some dry grass spears in a tuft right at my feet; then the little prospective mother flitted from her nest and went trailing on the ground, feigning to be fatally wounded.
The tidbit in her bill gave me a clew to the situation; so I scrambled up the steep place, and presently espied a nest in a bush, about a foot and a half from the ground.
As we approached the house we were espied by Genevieve, a half-breed servant of the family.
But as soon as the Jinni espied it, he flew and made for it, and caught it up; then, smiting it with a single stroke of his hand, he cut it in two and presently he returned and settled down upon the ground.
And as soon as he espied the youth and saw him seated beside his daughter, he commanded him be arrested and they arrested him;--And Shahrazad was surprised by the dawn of day and fell silent and ceased to say her permitted say.
However the Minister espied him a second time occupied in like guise and quoth he to the Sultan, "Look, O King of the Age, at yon labourer who is hiding something in his pocket and smelling thereat.
Now when the Princess espied him, the tears poured down her cheeks, whereat the youth sprang to his feet in haste, and unsheathing his sword, went forth to meet the foe, who at the sight of him gnashed his tusks at him.
So he dismounted from the Jinni's shoulders and looked about that wady where he espied pleasant spots and he descried trees and blooms and rills and birds that trilled and shrilled with various notes.
While I was looking around, I espied a man passing by and leading in an iron chain a dog-faced baboon and crying "Haraj!
FN#118] Then the Sage bade him go about the city and the youth obeyed his commands and fared forth; but whenas the folk espied him they cried out, "A miracle!
So he went in and found her sitting in her own apartment and he marvelled as he espied her and drew near her and threw his arms round her neck of his fond love to her and asked her concerning her absence.
A German guard espied him from the other end of the car.
Even as he spake they espied armed men who, bold and assured by reason of the solitude, moved in the garden below; and on back and breast of each was the sign of the Bloody Hand.
Now before we were out of the wood, we espied some ten peasants, of whom part were armed with musquets, while the rest were busied with burying something.
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