They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.
The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.
I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.