spyer

Moscow, and of how some German fellow had been brought to Rostopchin and accused of being a French "spyer" (so Count Rostopchin had told the story), and how Rostopchin let him go and assured the people that he was

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

Nor would he have the THOU GOD SEEST ME! fallacy — this reduction of the Omnipotent and Eternal to the level of spyer and peeper — instilled into their young minds; while such a purely human invention as the Devil — “That scapegoat on which man piles the blame for the lapses in his own nature!” — was never to be so much as mentioned in the nursery.

The Way Home 2003

It took brains and a genius for disguise to make a man a successful creeper and spyer.

The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories 1928

There was no answer, but the spyer was heard breathing hard at his vent.

The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

“spyer” (so Count Rostopchin had told the story), and how Rostopchin let him go and assured the people that he was

War and Peace 2003

It strikes me that even if you do choose criticism, it should be more strongly in the direction of our educating responsibilities and less as the arranger of technicalities, the spyer out of small things, the dragger together of all and everything which can be brought forward as a witness for or against the author, which is all frightfully welcome in a contemporary critical epidemic in Copenhagen, but, God help me, is nothing and accomplishes nothing.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

It strikes me that even if you do choose criticism, it should be more strongly in the direction of our educating responsibilities and less as the arranger of technicalities, the spyer out of small things, the dragger together of all and everything which can be brought forward as a witness for or against the author, which is all frightfully welcome in a contemporary critical epidemic in Copenhagen, but, God help me, is nothing and accomplishes nothing.

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

"Bow-puller, jiber, thy bow for thy glorying, spyer at virgins!

A Reading of Life, Other Poems George Meredith 1868

"Bow-puller, jiber, thy bow for thy glorying, spyer at virgins!

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

"Bow-puller, jiber, thy bow for thy glorying, spyer at virgins!

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868