"Peephole" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her turn at the peephole, and that they might see him the better, the negro stood by him with a lighted flambeau, which he moved up and down before the maestro's body. After all the women, from the lady of the house down to the two negresses, had thus gratified their eyes, Loaysa ...
— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... somewhere afar (as a matter of fact the gate which had admitted my weary self to La Ferte upon a memorable night, as already has been faithfully recounted) tanged audibly—whereat up jumped the more strenuous inhabitants of The Enormous Room and made pell-mell for the common peephole, situated at the door end or nearer end of our habitat and commanding a somewhat fragmentary view of the gate together with the arrivals, male and female, whom the bell announced. In one particular case the watchers appeared almost unduly excited, shouting ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings |
