"Peek" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... several hours. Even Pepperill could not avoid a decorous smile. Then the clerk pulled out the copy of Al-Hoda and rustled it, and His Honor, who had been dreaming that he was riding through the narrow streets of Bagdad upon a jerky white dromedary so tall that he could peek through the latticed balconies at the plump, black-eyed odalisques within the harems, slowly came back ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train
... He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... observe that it ought to be easy enough to best you, if we was on horseback—just because you peek at your sights when you shoot—I shall ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... you. Choose a perfectly calm day. Have a rest prepared on which not only the gun may be laid, but a support may also be had for the elbows, the shooter being seated. By this means, and with the aid of globe- and peek-sights, (which should always be used in trying a gun,) it may as certainly be held in the same position at every shot as if it were clamped in a machine. For your target take a sheet of cartridge-paper and draw on it a circle of a foot, and, inside of that, another of four inches in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various
... "If Mose could just peek in wouldn't he stare?" said she, casting her eyes on a pile of silks that had been ...
— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour
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