Meanings of espy a man in English

Soon I espy a man below me sauntering down among the rocks.

Near the entrance is a hole-in-the-wall sort of a shop wherein I espy a man presiding over a tempting assortment of cantaloupes, grapes, and pears.

Half-way to Red Roof, he espied a man walking briskly along the road ahead of him.

Suddenly he espied a man coming up the road and soon saw it was Quincy Adams Sawyer.

But before long Aling espied a man in the distance at work with a huge buffalo, and exclaiming, Hi-yah!

At the castle gate I espied a man of right noble mien, who greeted me courteously, and bade me enter.

I espied a man with an immense load of chairs, from a factory in our neighborhood, as I supposed, on his way to Boston.