"So you need not try to peep round the corner at the clock.

"Well, I might say that she was in Italy; for she is copying some fine thing of Raphael's, or Michel Angelo's, or some great creature's or other; and she looks so picturesque in her pretty gown, sitting before her easel, that it's really a sight to behold, and I've peeped two or three times to see how she gets on.

So Godiva might have looked on Peeping Tom, with more of wonder than of loathing, just at first....

Then I saw he 'ad got a light in 'is cabin, and I crept aboard and peeped down the skylight.

Chambertin, Graves, Alicant, white wine and red, sparkling and still, they lay in pyramids peeping coyly out of sawdust.

~With My Cigar.~ With my cigar I sit alone, Alone in twilight's undertone, With wav'ring shadows growing deep, While long-forgotten faces peep Midst curling mists of smoke, now blown Into a frame that doth enthrone A face that from my heart hath grown.

And peeping eyes from the barred windows of the convent school saw nothing.

The wide, wide world around: Be it east or west, and ne'er so far, In east or west shall peep no star, No blossom break from ground, But minds us of the wreath we wove Of innocence and holy love That in the meads we found, And handsell'd from the Mower's scythe, And bound with memory's living withe You and I and Burd

Yet, wheresoe'er amid the savage scene Peeps out a little spot of smiling green, Man with his babes undaunted thither creeps, And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps.

Again and again Dorothy came and peeped up the stair, but seeing the little man at his post, like Zacchaeus up the sycamore, was satisfied, and withdrew.

"Come into breakfast, papa," said Cornelia, peeping her little curly head in at the door, "Mamma wants you to come right away, because she has to go to Judy's.

I peeped out a crack it was already closed 'cept a big crack, I seed through.

A light shone on the landing, and peeping round the door he saw a woman coming along the corridora younger and better-looking woman than he had expected to see.

Bunny and Susan went back into the house and peeped out their front window to see how the animals would act when they saw the sign.

[Footnote 1: Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

The floor is covered with the oddest social circles imaginableweazles and Guinea pigs, and peeping chickens, are putting their noses together, caressingly.

Just peep another word and I'll stop your mouth with a potato.

Yes, or I'le break it: thou awaken'st me, and I'le peep i'th' Moon this month but I'le watch for him.

Mr. Kybird, first making an unsuccessful attempt to peep round the edges of this decoration, tapped gently on the door, and in response to a command to "Come in," turned the handle and looked into the room.

"He kept peeping up the road while we talked it over, and then we both see Mrs. Plimmer coming along.

This space was inclosed by a thicket of bushes, between which peeped moss-covered rocks, mighty and venerable, affording a rapid fall to an affluent brook.

Now he whirled round hernow sprang high into the airnow twined his lean arms round her waistnow peeped over one shoulder, now over the otherand at last griped her neck so forcibly, that he might perhaps have strangled her, if she had not broken from him, and dealt him a severe blow that brought him senseless to the ground.

Yet, with his infants, man undaunted creeps And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps, Where'er, below, amid the savage scene Peeps out a little speck of smiling green.

For him sod-seats the cottage-door adorn; And peeps the far-off spire, his evening bourn!

So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way, Th' increasing prospects tire our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!