Do we say peaking or peeking

peaking 4 occurrences

that way he went, And now comes peaking.

And, I suppose, if I was just a little more effeminate and pale, with a nice retreating under-jaw and a drooping lip, and a meek, peaking simper, like your starved Romish saints, I should be "so spiritual!"

A little, peaking, puling creature, desperately hen-pecked by a second wife; but madam overshot the mark, and the knight was roused to assert and maintain the mastery.

His spirits began to fail him, and his small, puny, peaking daughter did not comfort him much.

peeking 17 occurrences

If Toby here hadn't discovered him peeking, and pointed that way, chances are he wouldn't have shown up at all.

One summer there came a road-runner up from the lower valley, peeking and prying, and he had never any patience with the water baths of the sparrows.

You know, just when the sun is coming up, all red like, and peeking over the hill, just as if it was stalking.

Though Mooney had sworn that the streets were practically empty at the time of the homicide forty-one Chinese witnesses swore positively that they had been within easy view, claiming variously to have been behind doors, peeking through shutters, at upper windows and even on the roofs.

Is there anything the matter with you?" Tutt regarded him with the air of a small boy caught peeking through a knot hole.

He wandered along the upper hall, peeking into the different rooms, until finally he came to a beautiful chamber finished entirely in pink silk.

" "N-o; I just happened to be peeking in there you know.

Well, the American girls got scared seeing a man's face peeking at them like that, so one of them caught hold of a cord just above the window and pulled it down.

" Too badflickit's changed againit's Madeline on the doorstepshe's fallen asleepoh, say, look at that man coming near to her on tiptoes, and peeking at herwhy, it's Edward, it's the Roobut he doesn't waken herwhat does it mean?

Anyway, one of the cusses got himlike as not the same one that did this to-day while I was peeking at them," and he showed them a bullet-hole in his hat.

Brian Oakley chuckled; "If I'd acted upon impulse when I first saw you peeking through those cedars, you would have been more surprised than you were.

"You have been peeking again.

It appeared to be a great pie with bluebird heads peeking through the crust.

Enough that the first and most important step had been taken, the land was bought,a few acres, with a smart little house peeking up, a crazy little barn tumbling down, and a dozen or so fruit-trees that might do either as opportunity offered, and I set out on my triumphal march from the city of my birth to the estate of my adoption.

A little girl peeking at me from an orchard beside the tow-path tossed me an applea nice, red juicy apple.

After ransacking the house up-chamber, I ran down-stairs and went into the room from which Rucker had come, where I found the girl hiding behind a sofa, peeking over the back of it at me, and screaming "Go away!"

"Let me look at you," said they, peering and peeking about him for the solution of the mystery.

Do we say   peaking   or  peeking