Darker insinuations were made, but had there been truth in them, it could not have escaped the Spies the Count sent to watch him, and the servants the Count bribed to inform on him.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
They find him dead: "Under his foot the badge: still, Palma said, A triumph lingering in the wide eyes, Wider than some spent swimmer's if he Spies Help from above in his extreme despair,...."
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
These Fetish men and women, too, for there are Fetish women, and, consequently Fetish children, have Spies in different directions, forming as many links of communication between the priesthood in various parts of the country, so that very few occurrences take place of which they have not the means of making themselves acquainted.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham