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  • They led down into a small room half full of gardening tools, on the far side of which was a heavy door with a spy-eye in it.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • She paces the room, measures the bars and the thickness of the doors, plans traps to capture us as we enter the room — were it not for the spy-eye you installed in the ceiling above the door, we would not have seen the very clever trap that she built from portions of her bed, the covers, and some of the garment hangers in her wardrobe.

    Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

  • He had a spy-eye fixed on Chudak and the human ambassador, and a unit in his control console transcribed their words into a written summary.

    DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000

  • He was holding an unfamiliar badge up to the lens of my spy-eye, in a wide hand with short, thick fingers.

    A Hole In Space Niven, Larry, 1938- 1992

  • September's finger continued to point until Ethan spotted the spy-eye in the ceiling.

    Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

  • Tim Hamner, looking at her through the spy-eye in the door, suddenly remembered that she had given up Penelope too.

    Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977

  • a spy-eye when Cousin Pete kissed Polly Currier, and guide me to lead a blameless life.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

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