peepers

Example Sentences

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The trees were mostly banians, peepuls and mangoes, and there were many large fields of rice and corn.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various

Towards evening, after passing the little village of Amboa, they came to a grove of peepuls filled with green parrots and monkeys screaming and jabbering as though engaged in a competition.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert

But setting aside this weakness, it is a fascinating place—this jumbled city of straight streets and cool gardens, where gigantic mangoes and peepuls intertwine over gurgling watercourses, and the cuckoo comes at midday.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

Twenty-five miles down the road, an hour is spent beneath a grove of shady peepuls, watching the amusing antics of a troop of monkeys in the branches.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas