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Example sentences for "spies"

Lexicographically close words:
spied; spiel; spielen; spieler; spier; spight; spigot; spigots; spik; spike
  1. At last I spies a light at a distance in the fields aff the road, and away we set, I and my horse, full gallup.

  2. The word tirtha here means, as Nilakantha rightly explains spies and not holy spots.

  3. Let all the spies engage themselves in the search according to the directions already given.

  4. I cannot tell whether they are spies or not, only it is quite likely that they are.

  5. And wasn't one of the spies Nick Carter himself?

  6. Spies were already afield when the sun rose this morning, and while their return with the required information was eagerly expected, those of Asni who would be warriors took a hasty breakfast and looked to their horses and guns.

  7. Not quite half a century before the Israelites had been scared away from the borders of Palestine, after the spies had spread the report that the inhabitants of the land were too strong to be vanquished.

  8. This remnant of the Anakim filled the Israelite spies with such abject terror that they made the entire nation despair of ever obtaining possession of the country.

  9. Secret spies and informers were placed in all parts of the city, who converted the most harmless actions into subjects of offence.

  10. Even his thousand and one spies who had served him so well ever since he had placed foot upon English soil could tell him nothing.

  11. Constantly our sentries were on the alert along the wharves, and in the riverside warehouses, watching for the approach of the enemy's spies in boats.

  12. Within one week their numbers rose to over 8,000, and, being well served by the villagers, who acted as scouts and spies for them, the Germans found them very difficult to get at.

  13. His spies reported that each hour that passed rendered the populace the stronger, yet he did nothing, devoting his whole time, energy, and attention to matters in that half of London he was now occupying.

  14. Audacious spies had, in secret, in the night actually posted copies of Von Kronhelm's proclamation upon the Griffin at Temple Bar, upon the Marble Arch, and upon the Mansion House.

  15. Similar damage had been done by German spies to the line between London and Birmingham, two miles south of Shipston-on-Stour; and again the line between Loughborough and Nottingham had been similarly destroyed.

  16. Arrests of alleged spies were reported from Manchester and other large towns.

  17. For the past three years Germany, while sapping our industries, had sent spies into our midst, and laughed at us for our foolish insular superiority.

  18. The lines destroyed by the enemy's spies in the early moments of the invasion had long ago been repaired, and up to the present railway and telegraphic communication south and west remained uninterrupted.

  19. During the turmoil daring German spies were actively at work south of London.

  20. The city is watched by our own special corps of detectives, and the instant 'The Purple Kangaroo' is used in a suspicious sense we arrest the spies and unravel the plot.

  21. There was a sensational escape of a lot of Spanish spies from New York this noon.

  22. And the man who should have been master was taking cooling draughts, and composing couplets, so her spies brought word.

  23. As for the letter to Major Erlton, it was no doubt true that the number of spies sending information to the Ridge had made it difficult of late to send any, since the guards were on the alert.

  24. But these in the center were all white men, and they were standing, as men stand to look at a holy shrine, upon the place where, as the spies had told them, English women and children had been murdered.

  25. The soldiers, unable to retreat, unwilling to fight, swore loudly that they were betrayed; that there were too many spies in the city.

  26. She has a lot of treasure--eight lakhs, the spies tell me--and is anxious to keep it.

  27. Spies were plentiful, and if Jim Douglas had been able to get about, he could have set Major Erlton's mind at rest without delay.

  28. He must see Hodson first, and find out if the letter he had had from his spies about an Englishwoman, concealed in Delhi, referred to Kate Erlton.

  29. There was discontent and murmuring amongst the true friends of the royal family, but Reuterholm's spies were ubiquitous, and a frowning brow or dissatisfied look was punished as a crime.

  30. Her spies swarmed in all cities, and in every village; her agents ranked among the leaders of social and commercial life, and among the sweepings and outcasts of great communities.

  31. That the spies of Germany had every motive to put an end to his activity in ferreting them out, was quite plain.

  32. The authorities know full well that there are hundreds of spies among us to-day, and yet they deliberately close their eyes to them.

  33. Surely I know how strenuously you have worked in order to ferret out and expose the horde of spies surrounding us, and how you constantly helped poor Dr Jerrold.

  34. He had steadfastly defied the master-spy, and had, indeed, in order to retrieve his past, boldly sought out spies and denounced them.

  35. I wonder if there really are any spies still among us, Jack?

  36. I know that, like poor Dr Jerrold, you are trying to discover and punish the spies of Germany.

  37. No, dearest," he went on; "I quite agree with the doctor that the officials whose duty it is to look after spies have not taken sufficient advantage of patriotic civilians who are ready to assist them.

  38. Remember that they are the spies of the most barbarous race on earth and, in order to gain their ends, they'll stick at nothing.

  39. These spies of Germany, swarming over the country as they do, will hesitate at nothing in order to gain victory for their barbarous Fatherland.

  40. Well, speaking in the House of Lords, he admitted that we have not only to fight a foe in the open field, but that their spies are in every land and that the webs of their intrigue enmesh and entangle every Government.

  41. I have tried, since the war, to help my friend Dr Jerome Jerrold of Wimpole Street, to inquire into spies and espionage.

  42. He scented acts of espionage as a terrier does a rat, and by his efforts half a dozen, or so, dangerous spies have been arrested and punished.

  43. The spies remained in Hayil and watched the preparations, which the Amir declared were for the purpose of suppressing the tribes dwelling in the mountains to the south.

  44. Of course we have spies everywhere, but we cannot rely on them entirely, and in any case the views and opinions of two intelligent Englishmen will be of more value to us than the information supplied by a hundred Bedouin spies.

  45. I do all that I can to keep out of the newspapers, but they keep paid spies to catch one's chance expressions, to circulate over the earth as substantial news.

  46. His spies and ambassadors in Paris had not spent their time simply sipping wine on the boulevards.

  47. Meanwhile, the intense agitation manifested on this occasion, in the ranks of the Believers, was notified by spies to the Quraish.

  48. Although a belligerent acts lawfully in employing spies and traitors, the other belligerent, who punishes spies and traitors, likewise acts lawfully.

  49. But it must be specially observed that article 31 concerns only such spies as belong to the armed forces of the enemy; civilians who act as spies and are captured later may be punished.

  50. The spies went forth from among tribes which had so far made a good journey under the Divine guidance.

  51. The spies who searched Canaan were sent from Kadesh (xiii.

  52. The report of the majority of the spies was one of exaggeration and a certain untruthfulness.

  53. Here, indeed, a spirituality of view was needful which the spies could not be expected to have.

  54. The spies were to climb the hills which commanded a view of the promised land.

  55. And the ten false spies had been among the first to die.

  56. The spies went supposing that the Israelites were to conquer Canaan and dwell there purely for their own sake, for their own happiness and comfort.

  57. In the first instance, these men might be zealous helpers of Moses, but they proved, like the rest, angry critics of his leadership when the spies returned with their evil report.

  58. The report of the spies would answer this question.

  59. The spies were to climb the heights visible in the north, and look forth towards the Great Sea and away to Moriah and Carmel.

  60. He recalled the spies and the evil report they brought, by which a former generation had been disheartened and made to murmur against the Lord.

  61. The one account taken by itself would make the journey of the spies northward about a hundred miles; the other, three times as long.

  62. I read the reports of your scouts with interest," he said, but added, "I usually prefer to make my estimate of the enemy from general reasoning rather than from the words of spies or deserters.

  63. He knows where his enemy must be and what his force ought to be, better than his spies, or the enemy's deserters who, by a common stratagem, may be really hostile spies stuffed with the disturbing information they are sent to reveal.

  64. He had not forgotten that Mr. Jason had warned him that he might find German spies on board; and though there was no direct proof, the evidence, as given by Rudolf Stork, was very black against the boy.

  65. They were very brave men, these French spies who voluntarily entered the occupied territory in this hazardous manner.

  66. This method of landing spies was not popular with R.

  67. He hangs a' spies an' messengers aff hand; sae it's no worth naebody's while to greet.

  68. We can't have German spies running up and down the Thames as if they owned the blessed place.

  69. I may appear stupid not to have seen through the doctor earlier, but after all a gang of professional spies is hardly the sort of thing one expects to run up against in a Devonshire village.

  70. Men like those don't work without spies watching the house to give alarm.

  71. No secret is safe from them, and their spies are far better watchers than the most skilled detectives of Scotland Yard.

  72. His spies are no doubt dogging your footsteps everywhere.

  73. You can see these ten spies in camp the night they returned; great crowds are gathered around them listening to their reports.

  74. They were worth more to Israel than all the camp of unbelievers and the other ten spies put together.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.