keening

Example Sentences

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"Hannah, Hannah," cried the voice, "come away ben; are ye daft, lass, that ye stand there keeking at a McWhinus?"

From Nonsense Novels by Leacock, Stephen

I was keeking out of the window when you came up the road, and I said to masel', 'There's Miss Melville, and she'll be wanting her tea,' so I awa' and popped the kettle on.

From The Judge by West, Rebecca

Moistening the tips of her fingers on her lip and keeking into my little oval looking-glass, she deftly arranged a stray lock of gray-black hair under the neatly goffered border of her white morning-mutch.'

From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing

At word of his coming the doors were filled with mutches and bald heads, keeking by the jambs to get a look.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

She thinks I don’t see all her capers, and her opening drawers, and keeking into cupboards, and examining this, that, and t’other, when her missus is out.

From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon