He might have put me out of countenance, but that I saw King Richard clasp his knee and smile into the rafters, and knew by the peaking of his beard that I had pleased him.
I looked to the glass door, and there stood Susan Reed, a holding back the curtain with one hand and peaking through a square of glass to be sartin it was me.
Wal, I was jest a sticking that into my shirt bosom, and a thinking what a consarned harnsome feller was a peaking at me out of the looking glass, when somebody knocked at the door.
They listened to the eastbound densities peaking at twenty-six thousand vehicles in the same block, all heading into the metropolis and their jobs.
Excepting the sublime breach-- somewhere else to be described--this peaking of the whale's flukes is perhaps the grandest sight to be seen in all animated nature.
High over all this billowing and peaking tower the Pitons of Carbet, gem-violet through the vapored miles,--the tallest one filleted with a single soft white band of cloud.
A beautifully wrinkled mass of green and blue and gray;--a strangely abruptpeaking and heaping of the land.
Under the peaking of Montserrat we steam,--beautiful Montserrat, all softly wrinkled like a robe of greenest velvet fallen from the waist!
