The sight of one of those little white pearls peeping out of the swollen gum brings a cold sweat over me now.
And just then, peeping round the corner of my chair to see if there were any signs of cake, what should I see but a great beastly brute of a rat.
He intended to read the Encyclopaedia through, and he was not going to spoil his pleasure by peeping ahead.
They will go hopping and grinning after her, peeping down volcanoes, and punning upon coral reefs, and finding laughter in all things in this circumnavigable globe.
His two children were crammed into a pair of saddle-bags, a black headpeeping out of either side.
At our feet, as we drew nigh to the lake, were the gardens of the ancient city of Akhlat, leaning minarets and pointed Mausoleums peeping above the trees.
Going back into the house she found her father and mother peeping through the blinds.
Peeping over the edges of the chasms they could see green ferns growing in splendid clumps in clefts of the rock, and farther down darkness or a glint of water.
She could hardly realize the happy fact, and kept peeping under the cover to be sure that the dear dingy bunch at her feet was truly there.
Betty said that to the little boy peeping in beside her; but before he could make any reply, the brown beast stood straight up with an inquiring bark, while his eyes shone like topaz, and the short tail wagged excitedly.
After peeping coyly out, so that all could see and admire, she fell to counting the money from a purse, so large her small hands could hardly hold it on the window seat.
Curious as Fatima, Betty went to look; but all she saw was a group of excited boys peeping between the bars of another gate further down.
Then the sly little Dormouse peeped out of his hole, And led to the feast his blind cousin the Mole; And the Snail, with her horns peeping out from her shell, Came fatigued with the distance, the length of an ell.
Then the sly little Dormouse peeped out of his hole, and led to the feast his blind cousin the Mole; And the Snail, with her horns peeping out from her shell, Came fatigued with the distance, the length of an ell.
So he went peeping and poking about, making Little Jacket not a little troubled, for he expected every moment that he would pick up the boot in which he was concealed, and shake him out of his hiding-place.
By peeping out a little, he could just see their great feet shuffling over the wide floor.
It's all dark," said Mary; she had been peeping in.
There was a tiny window with a red curtain at the side of the waggon they passed, and Mary saw a little girl, with a nice rosy face, peeping out at her.
As he moved I saw a gold chain in the pocket of his white waistcoat, and just peeping out was the hilt of my little lost knife.
Not, as one might have imagined, because he had been caughtpeeping into our garden.
Seven dwarf simian acolytes, also in red, cardinal sins, uphold his train, peeping under it.
Peeping and prying into greenroom gossip of the day, the poet's drinking, the poet's debts.
When we had been there four or five days and were getting used to the appearance of the country, we saw a Turk just peeping over the top of a little mound, with his rifle pointing towards us and in the attitude of firing.
Then she softly opened the door, and at first contented herself with peeping in.
Here, as you walked along a path which led through a thicket, you fell into a cunningly-laid ambush, and became a target for a body of musketeers, whose tattooed limbs you could just seepeeping into view through the foliage.
As we passed the houses peeping out from the groves through which our route lay, I noticed that they were entirely deserted by their inhabitants.
The delicious liquid soon bubbles round the fruit, and leaves it at last just peeping above its surface.
Come the joys of the past, Through the dimness of days long gone by, Like the stars peeping out, Through the darkness about, From the soft silent depth of the sky.
With your eyes turned towards the dawn you forgot yourself, whilst you were peeping to catch a glimpse of the first ray of the future.
The sun was just peeping above the horizon, as Mr. and Mrs. Travilla drew rein before the main entrance to the Fairview mansion.
About midnight he was awakened by a noise, and peeping out he beheld a terrible ogress approaching.
It was brought to his bedside, and as he raised the lid cries were heard, and peeping in he saw two little children.
He was rather dull, for he had never learned how to amuse himself, and was peeping through the closed blinds to see what was going on in the street, when a little carriage passed by, drawn by servants dressed in blue and silver.
The transference of the idea of the twilight and the gentle star meekly peeping through, to the struggle discerned in the features of one, is a picture that would occur to none other than a poet.
Though the trees were budding, and the young leaves were peeping from their coverts, there came on one of the last nights in March, one of those cold snaps to which this latitude is subject.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peeping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
