1 The rain obscured her vision as the buggy came abreast, but she saw the driver peer over the tarpaulin that stretched from the dashboard to his chin.
2 Kennicott stooped to peer through the windows.
3 She saw Maud Dyer peer at Erik with moist possessive eyes.
4 A hundred black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit.
5 The man went out and closed the door; Jurgis, who was as sharp as he, observed that he took the key out of the lock, in order that he might peer through the keyhole.
6 He stopped then and began to peer as best as he could through the smoke.
7 He wished to come to the edge of the forest that he might peer out.
8 Danglars make a speech at the Chamber of Deputies, and at his wife's this evening I shall hear the tragedy of a peer of France.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 9 Made a peer at the Restoration, I served through the first campaign under the orders of Marshal Bourmont.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 10 At length an honorable peer, Morcerf's acknowledged enemy, ascended the tribune with that solemnity which announced that the expected moment had arrived.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 86. The Trial. 11 I used all my influence with one of the committee, a young peer of my acquaintance, to get admission to one of the galleries.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 86. The Trial. 12 They peer at me and their eyes seem to ask me something.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 13 Or if Mangan's sister came out on the doorstep to call her brother in to his tea we watched her from our shadow peer up and down the street.
14 I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.
15 The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden times, all are subjects of this fairy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...