Meanings of espial in English

Then wisdom altered its method and spoke of espial and discovery.

The system of espial, too, was carried out with increased severity.

From his new point of espial Kent checked off the members of the party.

How could he keep an espial on the house?

I saw not what was to be gained by any such long-range espial in the darkness.

His rat-tat-tat brought to the door a thin yellow face, cautious in espial, through the narrow opening.

Hugh's espial was at an end.

Wondering we come into this lodge of watchmen, this office of espial; let us not retreat astonished and ashamed.

Among the crowd entering the Exhibition he could easily keep her in sight without risk of his espial being detected.

He remembered his reluctant consent to McCloskey's proposal touching the espial upon Hallock, and was sorry he had given it.

Daddy John bent to pick up the saddle, and the mountain man, safe from espial, looked at her with burning eyes.

At the moment of my espial, Cornwallis was speaking, and I drew back to listen, well enough content to be in earshot.

But they kept just on the verge of vision, for they did not want her to know the espial of their love.

They heard a vehicle draw up before the house, and Barbara, making cautious espial from the windows, exclaimed that it was Mr. Musselwhite.

But Laure refused to condescend to an act of espial which no curiosity could justify, and she consequently became the object of much reprobation.

This ambition of course involved a second Arthur; but no espial on the part of those about her had as yet discovered Rochefide's secret rival.