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Example sentences for "peephole"

Lexicographically close words:
peen; peep; peepe; peeped; peepers; peepholes; peepil; peeping; peeple; peeps
  1. We look through another peephole that makes men out as angels, and we call it the New Theology.

  2. We look through one peephole that makes men out as devils, and we call it the new art.

  3. He put his eye to the peephole and looked.

  4. He looked through his peephole and saw the Moon.

  5. He looked out the peephole from his upside-down perch, stared musingly at the panoply of the stars.

  6. He glued his eye to the peephole and tried to determine where he was.

  7. Meanwhile, Captain Campbell lay prone on the bridge, looking through a peephole for the appearance of the submarine, constantly talking to his men through the tubes, even joking them on their painful vigil.

  8. All that the watchful eye at the peephole could see, however, was the periscope; this would sail all around the vessel, sometimes at a distance of fifty or a hundred feet.

  9. A peephole in the brain through which one sees the pomp and ceremony of the Absurd.

  10. A covered walk to the interior of ourselves; a subway to some other form of trespass; a peephole into the enemy's fortress.

  11. The spectacles of the brain; the peephole of consciousness.

  12. When the peephole opened he asked, "The Boss in?

  13. He knocked peculiarly on a door, and a peephole was opened.

  14. Rockwell looked quickly through the peephole window and then opened the door and jumped out.

  15. In a moment he was staring intently through the peephole window in the back of the taxi.

  16. To set the peep sight, the index lines on either side of the peephole are set opposite the range desired and the slide clamped.

  17. Peep sight=: Always center the tip of the front sight in the center of the peephole when aiming with this sight.

  18. PEEP SIGHT: Always center the tip of the front sight in the center of the peephole when aiming with this sight.

  19. The hole for this bolt should be exactly below the peephole in the mirror and run through one end of the baseboard, which is 3/4 in.

  20. The mirror is then turned so that it reflects a beam of light with a small shadow spot showing in the center made by the peephole in the mirror, which is directed to fall on the center of the cardboard sighting disk.

  21. But a glimpse through the peephole showed that the bear had no intention of doing anything of the sort.

  22. Tom found a peephole in the sod covering of the shack and peered through.

  23. All the boys were thinking hard, from time to time approaching the peephole to watch the bears.

  24. Who is there who has not seen it, if only through the peephole of a dream--the whole earth lying still and strange in the hollow of his hand, the sea waiting upon him?

  25. Knowing that he had never set eyes on my face (thanks to the convenient peephole at the red-brick house), I thought my meeting with him was likely to be rather advantageous than otherwise.

  26. I drew back the little shutter from the peephole in the wall, and looked through it.

  27. I cautiously opened the peephole once more.

  28. I instantly closed the peephole and got behind the door.

  29. Two little women, dressed for the third act, were chatting by the peephole in the curtain.

  30. Bordenave drew back the slide over a grated peephole of the kind used in convents.

  31. He sat down in a corner where the eye of a prying warder at the grating of the peephole could not see him.

  32. The camp-bed is so firmly fixed that it is impossible to move it without an amount of labor that the warder would not fail to detect, for the iron-barred peephole is always open.

  33. I looked in through the peephole a minute ago," the hunchback informed.

  34. Then she slipped into the closet of the bedroom and fumbled for the peephole opening.

  35. Penny closed the peephole and stole out of the dark closet.

  36. Several moments elapsed and then a peephole panel just above their heads shot open.

  37. The brief conversation with Penny through the closet peephole encouraged her to believe that almost at once help would come.

  38. The sound of the peephole panel moving again, aroused her momentarily from the stupor into which she rapidly was falling.

  39. A creaking of locks responded, and through the narrow bars of the peephole he saw the hairy face of an old crone.

  40. The peephole was closed and the old man waited.

  41. Strangers from Europe travelling through the country were allowed to look into the prison through the round peephole of the door kept by the Kaid el habs, who played the ginbri.

  42. In the wall of the last room (61) to the south there is a small peephole that enabled the owners to see from within the room anyone entering the street from the court.

  43. He had a peephole at the forward end of the car and another in the floor, and these he frequently visited.

  44. Out of the peephole she looked like a stupendous black circle, blacker than the sky itself, but round the rim was a beautiful ring of light.

  45. It was only a glimpse, for Edmund was nervous about meteors again, and would allow us only a moment at the peephole because he wished to be continually on the watch himself.

  46. Here, look through the peephole in the bow.

  47. Soon it was so large that we could no longer see its boundaries through the peephole in the floor.

  48. We need go no further, sirs; the house is clearly on fire, and smoke has made its way through the peephole that I spoke of.

  49. When they had finished, the Fleming said: "Now we will go upstairs; there is a peephole in the carving of the panel, and we can see how matters stand.

  50. We look through one peephole that makes men out as devils, and we call it the New Art.

  51. Through that peephole he saw something that almost turned him livid, rooted him to the spot, and for a moment held him helpless.

  52. I watched him, gentlemen, watched him through a peephole cut in the wall of his cabin, which is next the pantry.

  53. I spied through a peephole but could see nothing of our foes.

  54. A reconnaissance made through a peephole could at the best satisfy one that no stump in the clearing concealed an Indian.

  55. Through a peephole Daoud saw that Sordello had awakened.

  56. He put his eye to the peephole again, just in time to see a slip of paper disappear into the woman's deep sleeve.

  57. But they discovered the peephole in the side of the tent, and a man put his finger in and looked through the hole, but I was lying against the folds of the tent on the same side, so he could not see me.

  58. Sometimes I sat and drew a panorama through a peephole in the tent cloth.


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    Other words:
    beacon; bleachers; bridge; cringle; eye; eyelet; gallery; gasket; gazebo; grandstand; grommet; guide; keyhole; knothole; lighthouse; lookout; loop; loophole; manhole; observatory; outlook; overlook; peephole; pigeonhole; pinhole; placket; porthole; ringside; spiracle; tap; tower; vent; watchtower