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  • With grass-green banks, where cluster'd villas peep,

    The Age Reviewed 2010

  • Tonight I think I'll get some sleep, your night time serenades are done!, because if I hear just one peep,

    To My Neighbor's Cat 2010

  • And safe from prigs who plague and nymphs who peep,

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891 Various

  • Where the daisies, like stars, through the green grass peep,

    The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses J. C. Manning

  • Breathes of Beauty unabating, eyes of love that glance and peep,

    Oine 1918

  • As they passed by the hazel-tree, the two white doves cried, “Turn and peep, turn and peep,

    Cinderella 1909

  • They were, however, obliged to pass the grave, and there, on the hazel-tree, sat the two pigeons and cried, “Turn and peep, turn and peep,

    Cinderella 1909

  • He took her on his horse as his bride, and rode away with her, but when they passed by the hazel-tree, two little pigeons sat on it and cried, “Turn and peep, turn and peep,

    Cinderella 1909

  • Only notice how de sun shine w'en he's comin 'out to peep,

    The Voyageur and Other Poems William Henry Drummond 1880

  • Following his directions, Robert saw, amidst a little group of gentlemen surrounding a seated lady, of whose face he could not get a peep,

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

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