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I launch a doomed campaign to banish peakiness: eyebrow tweezing, a jojoba oil face massage for diminishing eye puffiness and dark circles, and the old Amish trick of cheek-pinching for instant blush.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2012

He would begin to think of it as a thing possible some day, at some very distant date--if there were more peakiness.

From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.