Then those gossipy spotters started saying that for one who made only forty yen a month to take a first class bath every day was extravagant.
"Botchan (Master Darling)"
Mr. Kin-nosuke Natsume, trans. by Yasotaro Morri
Often, being strangers, the landseekers did not know that these "spotters" were not land agents.
"Land of the Burnt Thigh"
Edith Eudora Kohl
By the way they drove or rode back and forth, we could spot the "spotters."
"Land of the Burnt Thigh"
Edith Eudora Kohl