Lakme, the daughter of Nilakantha, returns for them, espies Gerald, and there is a case of love at first sight.
The second act opens with the couplets of Ganymede ("We Grecians"), at the close of which he espies Galatea gathering flowers.
While there he espies Rebelledo, the chief coiner, and two of his comrades examining the contents of his trunk.
Oh, when the Christian lord this town espies How merry were their hearts?
This counsel pleases good Orlando so, That for the holy place he bids him steer; Who never swerving from his course, espies The lonely rock, upon Aurora's rise.
Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove: A sweet Athenian lady is in love With a disdainful youth; anoint his eyes; But do it when the next thing he espies May be the lady.
What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love?
Suddenly he espies a rabble of crows squabbling over a piece of meat.
Sparrow-hawks and peregrines are made to wear these hoods when taken out, until the falconer espies quarry, when he unhoods his hawk and lets the ends of the jesses go.
What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady[1623] in the fountain of our love?
Ship in sight is none; three stags he espies straying on the shore; behind whole herds follow, and graze in long train across the valley.
Volscens is mad with rage, and nowhere espiesthe sender of the weapon, nor where to direct his fury.
At the Valley of Blood she espies other unfortunates.
The anxious father espies a merchant wending slowly along the highway and hails him.
Marthereau, as he espies an over-ripe infant on whose bladder-like cheeks are shining deposits of jam, for the ensnaring of the dust in the air.
Through a gap in the mutilated wall one espies a recess where the bodies of soldiers of the Prussian Guard seem to kneel in the pose of suppliants, run through from behind, with blood-stained gaps, impaled.
While Hecuba is fetching water with which to bathe the body of her daughter, she espies the corpse of her son Polydorus.
Fierce Volscens raves with anger, nor espies The wielder of the weapon, nor which way To rush, aflame with fury.
Now, borne along, beneath him he espies The sides precipitous and towering peak Of rugged Atlas, who upholds the skies.
It flies over the open country, and every now and then hovers on rapidly vibrating wings over some spot where it thinks it espies some lizard or other animal.
These remain for hours high up in the air motionless on expanded wings, until one espies something to eat on the earth below; it then descends, and its companions, observing this, follow suit.
But most of all, his Mother dear, She who had fainted with her fear, Rejoiced when waking she espies The Child; when she can trust her eyes, And touches the blind Boy.
One of them is not quite satisfied with his position; he espies another bough which seems more exposed, so to this branch he flies, although it is so slender that it can scarce support him.
If this be so, the labour of obtaining material must be great, for the creature must fly about until it espies a feather or piece of straw floating in the air.
Every bird of prey in the neighbourhood espies it and, seeing the bundle of feathers and remarking the laboured flight, jumps to the conclusion that it is carrying booty, and promptly gives chase with the object of relieving it of its burden.
When the woodpecker espies a crack in the bark it inserts into it the long ribbon-like tongue.
If, however, he espies a purple sunbird, with an unusually short bill, a bird that sings like a canary, he may be certain that that particular one is A.
While we watch the festival, the shining hurly-burly, murmuring and eulogistic, the Baroness espies me, smiles and signs to me to go to her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "espies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
