There came a man by middle day, He spied his sport, and went away; And brought the King that very night, Who brake my bower, and slew my knight.
As she sped down yon high, high hill, She gaed wi' dole and sorrow, And in the den spied ten slain men, On the dowie banks of Yarrow.
As he gaed up the Tennies bank I wot he gaed with sorrow, Till down in a den he spied nine armed men, On the dowie houms of Yarrow.
Then he spied the five hundred men, all clad in livery of Lincoln green, and shooting with their bows on Newark Lee.
He forgot his surprise at the very next turn of the trail, when he suddenly spied a tangle of wild grape vine that hung in a canopy of the luscious purple clusters over the stag-horn sumac.
The next instant the boy spied Fleet Foot, lying helpless in the brush heap.
This time it was in real alarm, for she had spied a black snake wiggling toward them.
Suddenly Toodles spied something more entertaining to bark at and caper about than the girls' skirts.
And both rose and left the cornfield hand in hand, but at the same instant they spied Vreni's father.
He spied her at last, but there were two ladies in front of her, selecting bouquets.
And in fact Roncherolle had not been walking there ten minutes when he spied the person for whom he was looking.
Georget spied Pongo just at the moment that he was applying to a great chestnut tree, saying to it: "You see young lady who come to speak to master?
Any one could have spiedon us enough to find out which tent was Mrs. Jones' and Miss Gilder's.
To the westward we spied two or three islands close together, and nearer to us, though not much, than the island to the south-east.
In a little I spied our raft, and near by it the wreck of the mainmast, which had been cut almost clear by the seamen before they took to their boats; but never a sign was there of Mr. Lummis or the captain or Billy.
I remember the fond air of pride with which my uncle pointed to his vessel, and the smile upon his face when the captain spied him and touched his hat.
But we guessed that not having spied the canoe where it had been before, the men would imagine we had some lurking place on the island, and after a time would not keep watch on the shore.
And now, when we were, as I guessed, about two furlongs from the beach, I spied all of a sudden two boats lying close together near a small spit of land.
We had gone down to the shore for our morning swim, and as we walked over the beach we spied a crab scuttling away under a small rock.
The boys, much to their delight, spied some more steps leading to another street, and also noticed, on much of the way, the want of sidewalks.
Fancy the rage of the South-Enders the next day, when they spied our snowy citadel, with Jack Harris's red silk pocket handkerchief floating defiantly from the flag-staff.
It's he rode up, and he rode down, He rode the castle about, 30 Until he spied a fair ladie At a window looking out.
As I went forth to take the air Intill an evening clear, And there I spied a lady fair Making a heavy bier.
At last she spied a little castle, That stood near by the sea; She spied it far, and drew it near, 15 To that castle went she.
But the sharp eyes of Hera had spied out his conference with Thetis, and forthwith she assailed her indulgent lord in mocking tones: "What plot hast thou been hatching now, thou god of craft?
He is a swift trailer, but not so swift or secretive but some small sailing hawk or lazy crow, perhaps one or two of each, has spied upon him and come drifting down the wind to the killing.
Suppose now it were a man in this long-drawn, hungrily spied upon distress!
Somehow he had seen Pearl slip into the room that morning, had guessed that her secret visit boded no good for Sally; had spied on her, and then later had retrieved the bar-pin from the bundle in which Pearl had hidden it.
Clem Carson had prowled like an angry, frustrated animal, through the fields until he had spied them out.
I can safely say he spied not only to save his skin, but at any time there seemed money in it.
On the way they were spied on and Jones, besides pulling out all his teeth, had, with Hill, pretended to hang himself, kicking off from a table as they heard the guard entering.
As he was crossing the road he spied a company of soldiers coming towards him.
So when Delia spied Vickers, she cried, "There's father!
The people on the decks spied the sail-boat, raised glasses, looked down, and had their say.
His recent experience of having been followed and spied upon had so worn on his nerves that he constantly found himself suspicious of even the most casual glance.
It was just as they rounded the last corner that Lawrence spied another flying taxi which seemed to be following them.
I felt guilty for being about to break in upon such a sentimental little scene, and was going to retreat, but Enrico and Mona Lisa spied me and both gave a little cry of surprise and delight.
A serenading party, backing their boats out into the stream, had formed a small blockade, and in the group of gondolas that awaited the unraveling of the tangle I spied Enrico.
A Mount's Bay lugger hadspied them, and lying in wait, had sheered up close alongside, her crew bawling for news.
As he drew near the Parsonage, he spied a man running towards him: and behind the man the most dreadful noises were sounding from the house.
And sure enough, out of the thick weather rolling up away over Bovisand they spied now a Service cutter bearing across close-hauled, leaning under her big tops'l and knocking up the water like ginger-beer with the stress of it.
At first the stars guided her, and the slant of the night-wind on her face; but by and by, in a dip between the hills, shespied her mark and steered for it.
The squalls had eased soon after daybreak, and the sky cleared and let through the sunshine as they opened the bay and spied two sloops-of-war and a frigate riding at anchor there.
She had spied the end of a towel peeping out of one of his pockets.
John spied a tall slender woman in a car doorway arranging a paper over her hat, and raced along beside the platform until it came to a halt.
John sparred for an opening and his opponent spied the approaching figure.
And it would have gone hard with Frank Gilham's chances, if the maiden had spied any special meaning in the eyes of his dear mother.
Who has in the meantimespied the remnants of the bridge.
Hatred it was that settled in my breast, When first I spied him in the market-place.
In running so swiftly through the public streets, I thought it would be a safer course to leave the public way, and as quick as thought I spied a high board fence by the way and attempted to leap over it.
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