Pyke, peaked.

For instance, seeing the high, narrow forehead, peaked face, the gray-flecked hair of Pete Reeve, his nervous step, his piercing and uneasy eyesseeing this man with his body from which all spare flesh was wasted so that he remained only muscle and nerve, it was easy to conjure up the figure of Bull Hunter by thinking of opposites.

Then John died, and soon enough Susie got peaked-face an' lost her relish fer food.

Do I look peaked?

At 3.45 halted on a large stream-bed, with a few brackish or rather salt pools in its sandy channel, which was in some places nearly 100 yards wide; from our encampment we observed a very remarkable peaked hill, distant about twenty miles, and from its outline conjectured it to be composed of the same vein of trap-rock as that which forms similar ranges further to the eastward. 21st September.

The throne is the first object you see on entering the hall, being close to the door; a chair of antique form, with a high, peaked back, and a square canopy above, the whole richly carved and quite covered with burnished gilding, besides being adorned with rows of rock crystalswhich seemed to me of rather questionable taste....

And there was a mighty peaked volcano that grew out from the side of the mountain so high up as five miles, as I did guess that height; and this was upon the far side.

I.The Old Pyncheon Family Half-way down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely-peaked gables, and a huge clustered chimney in the midst.

She is thin and peaked and tired-looking."

In the parlour he found Monsieur Tudesco, wearing his waistcoat of ticking and holding a peaked hat in one hand.

And he went from group to group holding out his peaked felt hat, into which, amid an icy silence, fell coin by coin a dribble of small silver.

Following Mr. Bernard's wishes, Abel at once took off the high-peaked saddle and the richly ornamented bridle from the mustang.

He was startled, but made what excuse he could, smiling askance, a pale, peaked smile that haunted me.

Or at the chapel-door stand sentry; 27 In peaked hoods and mantles tarnish'd, Sour visages enough to scare ye, High dames of honour once that garnish'd The drawing-room of fierce Queen Mary! 28

Then the brother came up to the bedside, his face invisible under the peaked hood that hung over it.

I advanced with deep interest by the peaked group of rocks, and passed the wreck of a brig lying high and dry on the sand just before me.

From Novorossisk to Batoum, eight hundred and fifty versts, I have explored all that coast of the Black Sea that lies at the feet of the Caucasusto left of me the snow-peaked mountains shoulder to shoulder under heaven, to right the resplendent, magnificent sea.

Grey granite of several varieties; from a peaked hill under Mount Cook and its vicinity.

Hawthorne begins The House of the Seven Gables as follows: Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.

PEAKED HILL.

In the view annexed the reader will perceive a representation of the conspicuous headland called Peaked Hill, with its peculiar profile outline, lying about five miles south-west of Bald Head.

They call these pretty old houses the best examples of domestic architecture, but warn you that the quaint peaked roofs are Gothic and the surprises are Renaissancea mixture of which purists do not approve.

Leagues of brown chocolate slopes, scarred by slashes of yellow and cream, and shadowed black by sailing clouds, led up to the magnificently peaked and jutted summits.

This little peaked infantry cap is a damnable outrage.

Against the spires and gables of the town The white fog drifted, catching here and there At overleaning cornice or peaked roof, And hungweird gonfalons.

I had climbed up to pa and put my arms around his neck, and kissed him, and a girl kissed the female, when the gong sounded, and both four-horse teams made a jump, before I could get out of the chariot, so I got right in front of pa and peeked over the dashboard of the chariot, and, gee, but didn't we fairly whizz by the poles, and the audience looked like a panorama.

"I jest happened to be passin' by," she told me, "and I peeked in throughthrough the winder.

He chuckled, as he added slyly "I peeked in to some o' them high-toned joolery stores on Montgomery and Kearney Streets.

'Thin as a rail, and peeked as a pin' were the words she used.

I peeked out, this way, through my lashes, to see if you wouldn't come back.

If you could have seen your own face as you peeked through those glasses" Peggy stuffed the binoculars into her brother's brown hands.

After a while I opened the parlor door and peeked in.

" This is the way it runs in the first version; but you will want to read it also in its complete form: Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown, An' peeked in thru the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender.

When I peeked down again she was dropping something into a little drawer, and I came on as still as I could.

You will find them staring blankly at the stone walls; and their plaint is: "What do they find to rave about in this town?" Sophy Gold had been eight days in Paris and she had not so much as peeked through the key-hole.

One night Cake, returning all weary and played-out from dish-washing at Maverick's, heard him speaking in this loud voice of his, pushed the door open a crack, and peeked in.

" Joe peeked around the corner.

"It is true, I haven't been here many times for dinner (there have been so many invitations), but breakfasts and luncheonsalways I have peeked into the farthest corners hoping to see youbefore I sat down alone.

o' heaven, There you slep' like a babblin' baby, a-kep' in the bed-room, Secret, and tenderly cared-for: and eye o' man never saw you, Never peeked through a key-hole and saw my little girl sleepin' Sound in her chamber o' crystal, rocked in her cradle

" "Whetted?" says I to myself, "and a spirit?" and peeked from the window.

The woman came in bowing and scraping to me, and the two little boys hid behind her skirts and peeked around at me with big white eyes.

Virginia crept forward and peeked over the back of the seat after them until they disappeared over a hillock.

"I didn't think, when you were playing the needle's eye with me, that you acted as if you would be a very good husband!" I peeked up at her through my eyebrows, and saw she was grinning at me, and sort of blushing, herself.

" I peeked into the courtyard.

"My uncle, he liked those blow horts mighty well, and one day, when he had some baked in the fireplace, Ole Massy Hoover, he came along and peeked in through the "hold" in de chimley wall, where the stones didn't fit too good.

"He stood there and peeked in an' saw my uncle eat in' those blow horts.

Raised up my head, 'n' peeked over my stumick down the box.

Peeked through, 'n' see a lot o' lights 'n' folks, 'n' hearn 'em talkin'.

Some hours later the doctor peeked into the room and found that the body was still there.

"I peeked out through the curtain and saw him."