Chris swept his eyes from my hair down to my bare toes that just barely peeked from beneath my long gown, and his eyes told me something they'd never said quite as eloquently before.

He did not extend himself beyond its confines, but instead kept his arms in front of him, barely peeking above the lip of the lectern.

The sky was dark, the sun just barely peeking through.

Sandy, however, even loved the gray, misty mornings when the mountains barely peeked over their flannel shrouds and the world was wrapped in silence.

Borrowing one of the old quilts, he had bundled it around himself till his face barely peeked through a small gap at the top.

Using my son as a shield from prying eyes, I slowly pulled myself up so I was barely peeking over the edge of the log.

The gown was breathtaking, in the most glorious colors of silver and scarlet, with a wide, square neck above which the snowy white chemise barely peeked.

A dull, coppery sun hung low in a duranium gray sky, barely peeking over the huge slabs of ice-slicked rock that extended to the horizon in every direction.

And yet the luxury rooms are on sandbars barely peeking above the horizon.

"Before I started fighting for the rights of labor, I used to be 6 foot 5," joked the diminutive Mr. Reich, whose head barely peeked above the podium.