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Definition of Espying
1. espy [v] - See also: espy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Espying
Literary usage of Espying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... espying, stole him away for her that he represented. So much can sight enforce.
Especially if he have heen formerly enamoured, the sight of his ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"espying, stole him away for her that he represented. So much can sight enforce.
Especially if he have been formerly enamoured, the sight of his mistress ..."
3. Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with Explanations; and by Desiderius Erasmus (1814)
"time at sea, and perhaps been driven about by adverse winds, on first espying
the shore, " Thank God, I once more see land!" an ejaculation which some of my ..."
4. Nymphidia: Or The Court of Faeryby Michael Drayton by Michael Drayton (1906)
"... crying: Who sought the Faery King as fast, And had so well his journeys cast,
That he arrived at the last, His puissant Foe espying. ..."
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