keekin

"Reasonable here, reasonable there, up you'll be, keekin '(peering) through the blind to see if the post's comin', ay, an 'what's mair, the post will come, and a registerdy in his hand wi' fifteen shillings in't at the least."

A Window in Thrums 1898

First cooms t 'choir lads i' their supplices, an 'happen a peppermint ball i' their mouths; then t 'choir men, tenors and basses; then t' curate, keekin 'alang t' pews to see if squire's lasses are lookin 'at him, an' at lang length cooms t 'vicar hissen.

More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

Till Wee Davie Daylicht comes keekin 'owre the hill.

The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children Various 1889

"But thae young birkies gie oot 'at they see naebody comin' in, an 'cover their face wi' ae hand sae solemn, that if ye didna catch them keekin 'through their fingers tae see what like the kirk is, ye wud think they were prayin'."

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

'There's ae thing, though, Shargar: gin ye want to be a gentleman, ye maunna gang keekin' that gate intil ither fowk's affairs. '

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

When I was keekin inta t 'winda at the nags, he comes behint me and claps his claw on ma shouther, and he gars me gang wi' him, and open the aad coach-house door, and haad the cannle for him, till he pearked into the deed man't feyace; and, as God's my judge, I sid the corpse open its eyes and wark its mouth, like a man smoorin 'and strivin' to talk.

Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

"Come in, my bonny little lassie -- ye needna keep keekin in that gate fra ahint the door" -- and in a few minutes the curly-pated prattler is murmuring on our knee.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

Black as a blackamoor, blin 'as a mole, "and holds dominion over earth till" Wee Davie Daylicht comes keekin' owre the hill "(230. 73

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain