Do we say peak or peek

peak 1498 occurrences

One includes the higher part of this enclosure, from, the peak of that rock buried in clouds, whence springs the rapid river of Fan-Palms, to that wide cleft which you see on the summit of the mountain, and which is called the Cannon's Mouth, from the resemblance in its form.

I left you all in the Refuge sleeping soundly, even to the mules,"Maso laughed at his own fancies, as he included the brutes in the party,"and I reached the convent just as the first touch of the sun tipped yonder white peak with its purple light.

In the miniatures of that time we find Charles the Good, Count of Flanders, who died in 1127, represented with a cap with a point at the top, to which a long streamer is attached, and a peak turned up in front.

Here and there a darker spot suggested a break for a mountain peak; rarely a fleck of white marked a mountain road.

Dying together is then figured, perhaps, as climbing hand in hand the radiant topmost peak of life, with a last splendid leap together into some immortal morning; and such a marriage in death, a last union of two lives in some fiery consummation of dying, has been the lot of some lovers supremely blest.

Early starts are necessary these days as the sun blazes after 11 a.m., but nothing can equal the bodily comfort and well-being enjoyed at midday, lunching at the top of some peak or pass, basking in the blaze and imagining the run down cool slopes.

It is infinitely preferable to learn the knack of Ski-ing tidily, and thereby keeping dry and, in a few days, running well enough thoroughly to enjoy a day out with its slow climb to the top of some peak or pass, and then the slide down under control.

Muskwa did not look up to the crest of the peak again after he had started.

SKULLThe skull should be flat rather than domed, and have a slight indentation running up the centre, the occipital peak not prominent.

HEADLong, straight, and fine, the skull not broad, with a slight peak at the back.

The length from end of nose to stop (midway between the eyes) should be not less than that from stop to back of occipital protuberance (peak).

SKULLThe skull is long and narrow, with the occipital peak very pronounced.

With a narrow forehead, ascending to a moderate peak.

* DESCRIPTION OF THE BEAGLE: HEADFair length, powerful without being coarse; skull domed, moderately wide, with an indication of peak, stop well defined, muzzle not snipy, and lips well flewed.

In many respects he favours the Bloodhound, and one may often see Dachshunds which, having been bred from parents carefully selected to accentuate some fancy point, have exhibited the very pronounced "peak" (occipital bone), the protruding haw of the eye, the loose dewlap and the colour markings characteristic of the Bloodhound.

He can see every crag which juts from the green walls of Galt-y-Wennalt; and far past it into the Great Valley of Cwn Dyli; and then the red peak, now as black as night, shuts out the world with its huge mist-topped cone.

He groped his way between them; saw some fifty yards beyond a higher peak; gained it by fierce struggles and many falls; saw another beyond that; and, rushing down and up two slopes of moss, reached a region where the upright lava-ledges had been split asunder into chasms, crushed together again into caves, toppled over each other, hurled up into spires, in such chaotic confusion, that progress seemed impossible.

He was Prometheus on the peak of Caucasus, hurling defiance at the unjust Jove!

Where now my vines and violets grow, And fill the breeze with odors sweet, Two thousand years and more ago Some Roman had his loved retreat, And watched the sun and snow-peak meet.

The chief peak now hath caught the glow, And, soft, o'er sloping walls And buttresses of dazzling snow, The flood of splendor falls; While miles of tender pink and gold Incrust the blue of space, And bands of amethyst enfold

The full moon sailing by; From a crystal creek in a glaciered peak It slipped to the open sky, And now rides free in a clear, blue sea, With not an island nigh.

A bright sheet of water separated the peak on which we were standing from another rocky ledge, connected with the main land by a narrow strip, called Marblehead Neck, that looked like a wall inclosing the quiet bay.

Peak after peak of dazzling snow dwindled away to the left.

But as I neared it, and as I rememered all it stood for, I thought that in the atlas of history it would loom higher than the highest peak of the great Himalaya range.

If, on Teneriffe's Peak, You'd wish for a steak, Or dip in Vesuvius your spoon, Or slip all the dog-days, The rain-days, and fog-days, Go, call for your air-balloon.

peek 54 occurrences

I'll peek out at it all day long.

"Is it a big town playing peek-a-boo among those hills, Uncle John, or is this really all there is to the place?"

Yea, for such wry-necks all the world's a lawn To peek and peer and pounce a sinful worm; The fatter, the more luscious.

I show up to marry one man to a girl and nex' thing I know I peek in a winder and see" "Never mind that," cut in King hastily.

I used to peek in at them, never so softly, in Dona Ina's living-room; Raphael-eyed little imps, going sidewise on their knees to rest them from the bare floor, candles lit on the mantel to give a religious air, and a great sheaf of wild bloom before the Holy Family.

But wait till you hear about the fun we had with him when we landed and took a peek at Peekskill.

He had to stop at Peekskill and he took us all ashore for a peek that's what he said.

"I couldn't help givin' a peek tew the will, and there I see not Hiram Flint nor Josiah Flint, but Bewlah Flint, wrote every which way, but as plain as the nose on yer face.

sartin, little sister; but that only make him want peek um some more," said the little hunter.

Shy and wild as he naturally is, a duck, like a caribou or a turkey, must take a peek at every new thing.

"I lose him in the crowd and then take a peek at the entries again and find the gee-gee I intended betting on didn't even start.

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.

"M-m," he sighed, "you know how I come to peek in your door like that?"

"Would you care to have a peek at him?" "I should think so," said his wife, jumping to her feet.

Ah! here's a little peek-hole....

A sweater, a sarong and a peek-a-boo bang.

A sweater, a sarong and a peek-a-boo bang.

A sweater, a sarong and a peek-a-boo bang.

A sweater, a sarong and a peek-a-boo bang.

Pikes Peek or bust.

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 from Turkey to New York.

No more 'n they want Sunday to pry an' to peek Into wut they are doin' the rest o' the week.

Haul in the slack end 'n' let's hev a peek at it.

Why he's so handsome and good the very birds in the trees will stop singin' to listen to his talk, and the grass turn brighter green where he's stepped on it, and the May-flowers peek up and blush with happiness if he looks at 'em.

Bringa da peek!

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