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Example sentences for "peeps"

Lexicographically close words:
peephole; peepholes; peepil; peeping; peeple; peepul; peer; peerage; peerages; peere
  1. Hence a fine, wild glen comes into view, running up into the heart of the hills, Titterstone rears his dark craggy crest away to the right, and the Wrekin peeps over the shoulder of Brown Clee Hill, towards which we now bend our steps.

  2. But anon we go astray once more in order to get a nearer look at Halford church, which peeps invitingly out from a leafy nook on the opposite bank of the Onny.

  3. Bath and London society is sketched with great vivacity and gusto; but such sketches are more common than these peeps into aristocratic country life.

  4. On all sides are vast stretches of unfenced arable land, though here and there a tiny village with its square-towered Norman church peeps out from an oasis of green fields and stately elm trees.

  5. As we pass onwards over the cornfields towards a piece of high ground from which it is our wont to watch the sun set, a silvery half-moon peeps out between the clouds.

  6. Out of it peeps again the riddle, the so quaint trait de moeurs, of my infant participation.

  7. The two Thrums ministers were naturally desirous that Tommy should win, but the younger of them was very fond of Mr. Ogilvy, and noticing his unhappy peeps through the door dividing the rooms, proposed that it should be closed.

  8. Against his better judgment he took several peeps at Tommy, whom he had lately suspected of writing his letters in school or at least of gloating over them on that back bench.

  9. And at last what sud I do but peeps into Madam Crowl's bedchamber.

  10. And as she went to the hearth I peeps beside his arm, and I sid squat down in the far corner a monkey or a flayin' on the chest, or else the maist shrivelled up, wizzened ald wife that ever was sen on yearth.

  11. In response to these orders the advance-guard now and then hurries forward and peeps around certain corners, as though expecting some hidden assailants.

  12. As the sun peeps over the wall of the garden my red-jackets reappear at their post; roses are stuck in their caps' and their buttonholes, and fastened to their guns.

  13. A slight drizzling rain is falling when the early riser of the company wakes up and peeps out at daybreak next morning, but it soon ceases, and by seven o'clock the ground is quite dry.

  14. Then there came stains upon the mist of royal purple, of scarlet, of yellow like a mandarin's robe, peeps of deep blue fading into azure as the mist lifted.

  15. And, as the sun peeps out of a troubled sky, she smiled.

  16. She must have more than a mere tolerance for him, or she would not have allowed him those peeps into her mind and soul to which he alluded with such unrestrained rapture.

  17. Hugh is not close-fisted himself: he is, in a certain way, the soul of generosity, but sometimes the old Adam peeps out in little things.

  18. Such a reception has encouraged the belief that there is a wide sphere of usefulness, and power of pleasure-giving, for a series of Peeps at Industries written from first-hand knowledge.

  19. But if De Gourmont always attains clarity with no loss of depth, he sometimes mixes his genres; that is, the poet peeps out in his reports of the psychic life of insects, as the philosopher lords it over the pages of his fiction.

  20. He peeps into the glowing core of emotion, but seldom describes it.

  21. There is a door and one window in front, besides another little window that peeps out among the thatch.

  22. Here peeps out a crag, there a village or a castle.

  23. As the season went on in London, various peeps at society were afforded Katherine, and as her eyes opened, and the keenness of her understanding developed, she learned many useful lessons.

  24. You now look over some of the nearer hills, and get fresh peeps into the valleys, discovering topographical secrets.

  25. And then there is always the view while you scramble about among the broken walls and bits of towers, getting peeps at parts of the landscape framed by a shattered window.

  26. The weather will be fine-- If lightning does not flash on high, Nor gloomy be the azure sky, And the sun peeps out to shine.

  27. Love lies Bleeding with Maiden's Blush, Sighing Forget-me-not; While the Gentle Heart with crimson flush Peeps from its cooling grot.

  28. From time to time she peeps out of window through the flowers.

  29. Peeps out between the curtain and the window-frame).

  30. Then there were white things, making me think of some small shells, as there were peeps of yellow inside.

  31. And, when she examined herself by the light of the flame thus newly kindled, she shrank back dismayed, like one who peeps over the crater of a volcano commencing its fiery work.

  32. One each side of the carriage-way there spreads a garden calculated to make English horticulturists gnash their teeth with envy, through the bowers of which he could catch peeps of green turf and of the blue sea beyond.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peeps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.