By the way, did you mean to have "espial" in your alternative rendering?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993] Reference

Stephen C. Carlson: "By the way, did you mean to have 'espial' in your alternative rendering?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993] Reference

One might understand espial which is itself a troubling hapax to refer to the father of Laris Thefarie, which is the traditional way of naming people in Etruscan inscriptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993] Reference

The house was warded during the war against espial human and nonhuman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Luna]

May 17 Corrected typo at the transcription at the very bottom from espial to estial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993] Reference

Looking at the photograph, I agree that estial seems to be a better transcription than espial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993] Reference

MacStinger, and carefully observing the behaviour of his ally, from the hole of espial he had cut in the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dombey and Son] Reference

The inscription REE 59,1993 is often transcribed thus: ecn : turce : laris : θefries : espial : atial : caθas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993] Reference

Not caring to be observed in his clandestine espial he drew back a little, still keeping the figure of the girl in sight, and listened to the music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

Based on the above picture, could it be possible that espial is a faulty transcription for what is to be read estial with the letter tau instead of pi?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993] Reference

When Feng returned, nowhere could he find the man who had suggested the treacherous espial; he searched for him long and carefully, but none said they had seen him anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

They hurt no man that is unarmed, unless he be an espial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Book. Of Warfare] Reference

Then Wisdom altered its method and spoke of espial and discovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference

The system of espial, too, was carried out with increased severity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Marie Antoinette]

Moultrassie Hall was desirous to keep up some system of espial in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peveril of the Peak] Reference

From his new point of espial Kent checked off the members of the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grafters] Reference

Not only that, but his wife sold ginger-beer, and, in the very window of espial through which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference

Page 48 house, I was able to converse with William without fear of espial, or of being interrupted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army. In Which Is Given Full Descriptions of the Numerous Battles in which She Participated as a Confederate Officer; of Her Perilous Performances as a Spy, as a Bearer of Despatches, as a Secret-Service Agent, and as a Blockade-Runner; of Her Adventures Behind the Scenes at Washington, including the Bond Swindle; of her Career as a Bounty and Substitute Broker in New York; of Her Travels in Europe and South America; Her Mining Adventures on the Pacific Slope; Her Residence among the Mormons; Her Love Affairs, Courtships, Marriages, &c., &c.] Reference

But they kept just on the verge of vision, for they did not want her to know the espial of their love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Gibbie] Reference

John bent to pick up the saddle, and the mountain man, safe from espial, looked at her with burning eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emigrant Trail] Reference

This ambition of course involved a second Arthur; but no espial on the part of those about her had as yet discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrix] Reference

Some regarded it as an act of espial, and much foolish talk arose about the covenanters and persecution and martyrdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malcolm] Reference

"Master Alwyn, forgive me; but can I forgive thee so readily for thy espial of my handiwork, without license or leave?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

So they held their peace, and arranged between them to keep her in watch and close espial, that they might catch her unawares.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron, Volume II] Reference

It was even possible, he thought, that, if she had not herself seen Cecily, some one in her employment had made the espial for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emancipated] Reference

Besides being kept under the eyes of these wretches, and exposed to their insults and mockery, she was subjected to espial from without.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07] Reference

They heard a vehicle draw up before the house, and Barbara, making cautious espial from the windows, exclaimed that it was Mr. Musselwhite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emancipated] Reference

"As for myself, I am resigning my post as espial and going into interior decorating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory Lane]

"You know what an espial is?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory Lane]

I too, for shrewd espial of their camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven against Thebes] Reference

"I'm what you'd call a freelance espial.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory Lane]

Nobody wants to listen to a lowly espial. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory Lane]

From fright of dim espial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keats: Poems Published in 1820] Reference

This by espial sure I know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady of the Lake] Reference

Hugh's espial was at an end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whirlpool] Reference

Of Pallas, grieved at that espial old.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Nature of Things] Reference

How could he keep an espial on the house?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Warburton] Reference