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Word: peeped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Usage:

...that you may know them the better, I will mention a few of their chief characteristics. They sit around on benches and pretend to be reading, but beware, they are fooling thee! They sit on the benches, and, having pricked the newspapers they read full of pin-holes, they peep out and await their chance. It soon comes, and as a cat, from behind some garden shrub, pounces upon a poor robin picking a worm from out the earth, so pounce they upon the unsuspecting student picking a crib from out his pocket. Then internally they chuckle to themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 3/9/1877 | See Source »

...summer's sun from sylvan waters peep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INDIAN LEGEND. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

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