Inevitably, such vibration cracks the plaster and tilts the pictures on our tired old walls and allows strangers to peer into our windows.

The dark stranger peered at the lettering.

"When you live like this," says Jesse as he watches a stranger peer into his bathroom, "you have to be open to everyone and you have to get along."

As we watched, the stranger peered into one of them, peered across the canyon at the sacred cairn of Musk-Watz, the god of the winds, and then into his device again.

The stranger peered inside at the linoleum floor, the antique stove and icebox.

And as, half revived, I lay against the boulder, I observed that the strangers were all peering at me with curiosity and wonder.

Occasionally, a stray workman putting his coat on, traversed the hall, or a stranger peered about there, or a distant clink was heard across the courtyard, or a thump from the golden giant.

It was as if a small, befuddled stranger were peering through the imposing mask of my father's features.

The stranger peered.

The stranger peered between and beyond the silent, uneasy company, but he could not glimpse the boy.