Peake
/ (piːk) /
Mervyn. 1911–68, English novelist, poet, and illustrator. In his trilogy Gormenghast (1946–59), he creates, with vivid imagination, a grotesque Gothic world
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How to use Peake in a sentence
His agent Tony Peake told me Jarman would have been “You Tubeing like mad” had he lived.
From the year 1823 until 1856, Mr. Peake was actively engaged in mercantile pursuits on the island.
History of Prince Edward Island | Duncan CampbellAnd Remson Peake's apartment had the rare, almost unique, quality of disarming criticism.
The Transgression of Andrew Vane | Guy Wetmore CarrylPeake was now questioned as to the name of his ship, the Captain, and the number of cannon on board. '
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts | Rosalind NorthcoteFor the land, it is said, Fauntleroy paid the Indians "ten fathoms of Peake and thirty arms lengths of Rhoanoke."
The Stronghold | Miriam Haynie
Will Peake hailed me civilly, and hearing of my plight, readily charged himself with the business of the boat.
Sir Ludar | Talbot Baines Reed
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