Denis peeped at them discreetly from the window of the morning-room.
He opened the cupboard door and peeped inside, as though he hoped to find the rest of the books behind it.
She did not feel quite at home in this strange, sweet, sunny place; and she peeped in cautiously through the half-open iron gate before entering.
I looked round when we were out of the house, and caught a glimpse of his withered face, and ragged white hair, as he peeped from behind the curtain at us.
They had a cowed and frightened expression, and peeped askance at us as we went in behind madame.
And she held up her scrawled slate to ward off his look, and peepedat him round the side of it.
The pink rose-leaf tongue peeped from between the budding rows of teeth, and the innocent considering eyes questioned him only a moment before the smile came.
The lace-trimmed frills of a white cambric petticoat peeped under the hem of her green cloth skirt; below there was a glimpse of slender, crossed ankles in brown silk hose, and the little brown shoes laced with wide silk ties.
From under her tangled hair she peeped from side to side, wondering what it was she had left undone?
He opened the window at the top, and through the crack, where the stars peeped brightly, there came, louder than before, the uproar of human voices floating through the night from far away.
And an hour later, when the tutor peeped in upon him, the boy was calmly sleeping.
The first stars peeped and twinkled, hanging loosely in the air as though they could be plucked like golden berries; and the sun was already below the Libyan horizon, where gold and crimson faded through violet into blue.
He opened the door of a hut and peeped in: three or four bodies were stretched on the floor, their bones showing through their skin, dead of starvation; for after the boy had gone to the mountains there was no one to bring them food.
As soon as the stars peeped out the poor little boy who had been looking on also ran down to the beach, as his uncle had done, and laid himself upon a rock.
At last a night came when the princess could not sleep, and hearing a movement she rose softly and peeped through her curtain of skins.
Having said this, the old woman went away locking the door behind her, and that was the last the girl saw of any human creature for four weeks, except the eye of a person who peeped through the keyhole.
The husband was glad in his soul at her words, and then proposed that they should get up and play a game as usual; and, while they were playing, the man behind the curtains peeped through.
As the boy turned round to the schoolmaster he caught sight of Marit with the many names, sitting on a little red painted box in the chimney corner: she hid her face in both her hands and sat and peeped at him.
They both of them peeped to see whether the lad could hear them where he sat.
It entered his books, itpeeped out of every word the schoolmaster said, and crept stealthily round the school-room when all was still.
The children waited long for him; at last they became impatient, and one and another came and peeped in and called to him, but he pretended not to hear.
How small, and poor, and shabby she felt, as she peeped out of the parlour at that beautiful, blooming mother and son!
Algernon--who had often gazed at the outside of it rather wistfully--peeped into it with some eagerness when it was opened; but its contents were chiefly papers and a huge ledger.
Maxfield was weaving speculations in connection with the young man, of so wild and fanciful a nature as would have astonished his most familiar friends, could they have peeped into the brain inside his grizzled old head.
The wind peeped out too, however, and, unlike the sun, it stayed out.
Saturday was cold, raw and cheerless at dawn, but in the middle of a long forenoon the sun peeped out for a few minutes.
Turning his back on the others, he cut four splinters of varying lengths, and, arranging them so that the ends peeped evenly from his big hand, he held them out.
She brought it forth now and arranged it about her shoulders, but in spite of this covering the fair flesh beneath peeped through its wide interstices most brazenly.
The children danced about with their beautiful playthings; no one looked at the Tree except the old nurse, who peeped between the branches; but it was only to see if there was a fig or an apple left that had been forgotten.
He flew up in a fiery mantle," said another; "the most lovely little cherubpeeped forth from among the folds.
We have peeped in at the windows in the town below!
That night, as he lay asleep, he heard a strange noise near his pillow; so he peeped out from under the bedclothes and there he saw the kettle that he had bought in the temple covered with fur and walking about on four legs.
One of them slid aside the kara-kami and peeped through.
Jack motioned me to be silent, and advancing to the bower on tiptoe, we peeped in.
The night was wild and windy, and the sky dark with scudding clouds, through which the moon peeped out at times.
Eric cried again, while the women who peeped behind sent their long wail of woe echoing down the panelled hall.
He seemed so terrible in his woe and rage that Swanhild shrank from him, and, throwing her hair about her face, peeped at him through its meshes as once she had peeped at Asmund.
We beckoned to them to come down, and one immediately withdrew her head, and the next moment peeped over the old woman's shoulder.
Lem had peeped out at the bath-house door upon this spectacle with awesome eyes.
Tempted by curiosity to see the sight, she opened the gate a little and peeped out.
That night, as he lay asleep, he heard a strange noise near his pillow; so he peeped out from under the bedclothes, and there he saw the kettle that he had bought in the temple covered with fur, and walking about on four legs.
I peepedout through the willow branches, and there it was--a skiff, away across the water.
And I peeped out, and in a little while Tom's Aunt Polly shook herself loose and stood there looking across at Tom over her spectacles--kind of grinding him into the earth, you know.
I peepedthrough a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
We done it, and then peeped down the woods through the leaves.
I peeped into the parlor, and it was as cosy and inviting as a glowing fire, a shaded lamp, and a comfortable sofa wheeled near the table, could make it.
After a time she peeped out again, and made another effort.
Its discovery by myself and dog probably opened the door for ill luck, as one day, not long afterward, when I peeped in upon it, it was empty.
I peeped through a crack and saw the old birds feed the nearly fledged young within a few inches of my face.
He didn't find any one in, but he peeped through the letter hole and saw the carpet and furniture still there and went away.
Mrs. Belcovitch's head was not completely shaven and shorn, for a lower stratum of an unmatched shade of brown peeped out in front of the shaitel, not even coinciding as to the route of the central parting.
Sugarman himself was rigged out in a handsome manner, and the day not being holy, his blue bandanna peeped out from his left coat-tail, instead of being tied round his trouser band.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peeped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
