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  • Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

  • The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

    Feminist   Body   Should  
    "Modesty be damned. If you've got it, you've got every right to flaunt it". www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.
  • A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

    Dirty   Eye   Sight  
  • For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

    Hope   Light   Shadow  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.901, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brian: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

    Mean   Cutting   Animal  
  • I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!

    Night   Long   House  
  • I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

    Summer   Taken   Garden  
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Over 120 Short Stories Including Rare Sketches From Magazines of the Renowned American Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.703, e-artnow
  • For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.

    Judging   Heaven   Looks  
    "The Constitution and Administration of the United States of America". 1897.
  • Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

    Night   Giving   Church  
    Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Sir John Tenniel (1868). “Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son”, p.17
  • He laced his fingers through mine and lifted my hand to his lips. I had gloves on, but he kissed exactly where I wore his ring. “Why are you so sweet?” I asked, my voice small. My heart beat rapidly, and every star peeping through the clouds seemed to be shining just for me. “I don’t think I’m that sweet. I mean, I just told you to be quiet. That’s one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.” “You know what I mean.” Seth pressed another kiss to my forehead. “I’m sweet because you make it easy to be sweet.

    Sweet   Stars   Heart  
    Richelle Mead (2012). “Succubus Dreams”, p.117, Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.

    Funny   Humor   Lovers  
  • Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

    "The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2018.
  • O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back the friendship of the sun; The gilded evenings, calm and late, When merry children homeward run, And peeping stars bid lovers wait. Bring back the singing; and the scent Of meadowlands at dewy prime;- Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summertime!

    Summer   Running   Stars  
    William Allingham (1865). “Fifty Modern Poems”, p.49
  • Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?

    Kings   Army   Thinking  
    Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.204
  • Did you ever hear Of the frolic fairies dear? They're a blessed little race, Peeping up in fancy's face, In the valley, on the hill, By the fountain and the rill; Laughing out between the leaves That the loving summer weaves.

    Summer   Blessed   Race  
  • You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

    Summer   Stars   Fall  
  • Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

    Heart   Forever   Youth  
    Lucy Maud Montgomery (1982). “Spirit of Place: Lucy Maud Montgomery and Prince Edward Island”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.

    Easter   Spring   Long  
    Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press
  • And here I thought they were called Peeping Toms." I didn't need to see him to know he wore a smile. "Stop laughing," I said, my cheeks hot with humiliation. "Get me down." "Jump." "What?" "I'll catch you." "Are you crazy? Go inside and open the window. Or get a ladder." "I don't need a ladder. Jump. I'm not going to drop you.

    Crazy   Laughing   Hot  
    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.418, Simon and Schuster
  • The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

    Spring   Eye   Azure  
    Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.184
  • Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

  • POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?

    People   May   Faces  
    Allen Tate (1947). “Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection”
  • There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

    Faith   Stars   Heart  
    J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”
  • I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.

    Shade   Looks   Window  
  • He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.

    Creepy   Trying   Rooms  
  • Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

    Snow   Lips   Peeping  
    Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.45
  • Life is like a rose, peeping through the hardships of life to bloom with color.

  • Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.

    Dirty   Clouds   Fog  
  • You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.' 'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.' 'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.' 'Well, now I feel much better.' 'You should.

    Girl   Country   Sleep  
  • A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

    White   Rose   Erotic  
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