The Castrato, therefore, disguised himself in merchant's habit and repairing to Bahluwan's city, began to make espial concerning the youth's case; whereupon they told him that he had been prisoned in a souterrain and that his uncle had released him and despatched him to such a place, where they had slain him.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
From his new point of espial Kent checked off the members of the party.
"The Grafters"
Francis Lynde
She did not intend an espial upon Anthony; the question was born of pain and bewilderment.
"A Man's Hearth"
Eleanor M. Ingram