See peakèd on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1871 [1850], Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Soul’s Travelling”, in The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Complete in One Volume. Corrected by the Last London Edition., Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co, stanza IV, page 53, column 2:",
"text": "O blue sky! it mindeth me / Of places where I used to see / Its vast unbroken circle thrown / From the far pale-peakèd hill / Out to the last verge of ocean— / As by God’s arm it were done / Then for the first time, with the emotion / Of that first impulse on it still.",
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"ref": "1873, Frances Ridley Havergal, Bruey: A Little Worker for Christ, 2nd edition, London: James Nisbet & Co., […], page 131:",
"text": "“I did not ask her name, miss; but she’s a poor-looking, peakèd little thing” (“peakèd” signifying thin in the face).",
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"ref": "1876 August, Richard Henry Stoddard, “Hospes Civitatis”, in Scribner’s Monthly, volume XII, number 4, page 587, column 2:",
"text": "[…] Rivers, with low squat bridges; every where / Women and children; beardless men, with queues, / In tunics, short wide trowsers, silken shoes, / Some with the peakèd caps of Mandarins; […]",
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"ref": "1879 October, [Richard Jefferies], “Greene Ferne Farm”, in Edmund Yates, editor, Time: A Monthly Miscellany of Interesting & Amusing Literature, volume II, London: […], published 1880, page 22:",
"text": "The shepherd he stood on the side of the hill, / And he looked main cold and peakèd; […]",
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"ref": "1898 January, Carolyn Wells, “The Lay of the Lady Lorraine”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XXV, number 3, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., page 195, column 2:",
"text": "And as he spoke, / He threw off his cloak, / He flung to the floor his peakèd hood, / And a gallant knight before her stood!",
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"ref": "1904, Carolyn Wells, “The Debate”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 10:",
"text": "City life would doubtless soon reduce her to a thin, pale, peakèd specimen of humanity, unrecognisable by her friends.",
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"ref": "1915, Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord, “The Little Sand-Men”, in Sandman Time, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, page 13:",
"text": "They’re the funniest, cutest little Elfin men, / And they dress in the strangest way, / With queer little peakèd caps on their heads, / And tight little suits of grey!",
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"ref": "1931, Frank Allaben, Poems, New York, N.Y.: The National Historical Society, page 89:",
"text": "Forgive us, sin-pale, peakèd, wizen, / Deaf, blind, and dead, that blaspheme Thee!",
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"ref": "1931, Thornton Wilder, “The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden”, in The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, Inc.; New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, published 1932, page 109:",
"text": "(She follows the dog with her eyes.) Looked kinda peakèd to me. Needs a good honest bowl of leavings. Pretty dog, too.",
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"ref": "2008, David J. Murray, “Our Limitations”, in Surface Tension and Other Poems, New York, N.Y., Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 113:",
"text": "Sequesterèd and lonelier than clouds / Are quixexoticicities and wants / That outstride needs and drag us, unsublime, / Unto the peakèd caps of jostling Alps; […]",
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"ref": "2010, Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Courtship, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 125:",
"text": "“I thought you looked a bit peakèd last time I saw you.” / “Very observant.” / Barry looked around. This was not the place for a consultation. “I’d like to take a look at you.”",
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"ref": "2012, Don Gutteridge, Dubious Allegiance, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 157:",
"text": "“I did not want to trouble you, sir, when you first come in, as you looked quite peakèd, but the courier left a message for you, the one that come from Montreal.”",
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"ref": "2014, Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You, New York, N.Y.: Ecco, →ISBN, page 54:",
"text": "“I’m yanking your schwantz, Frank. You look a little peakèd. You takin’ care of yourself?” I’m down off this berm now, my shoes full of cold sand, my ass damp. Arnie, for his part, looks robust, which was what his cosmetic work was in behalf of. He looks to have swelled out his chest a few centimeters and deepened his voice. I don’t like being said to be peakèd.",
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"ref": "2014, C.D. Hopkins, “One Good Man”, in The Nipple of the Queen, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse LLC, →ISBN, pages 245, 250, and 252:",
"text": "“I’m concerned about you, Janet. You’re looking peakèd.” It’s winter, she says. You’re supposed to look peakèd. […] He says, “You’re looking good—not so peakèd.” […] She looks as though she might have been crying; she looks peakèd.",
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"ref": "2023, Henry Grinberg, Wild About Harry, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:",
"text": "It was the first time I seen ’im since that day of that picnic, weeks ago, and he looked real changed—thin and peakèd-like.",
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"text": "O blue sky! it mindeth me / Of places where I used to see / Its vast unbroken circle thrown / From the far pale-peakèd hill / Out to the last verge of ocean— / As by God’s arm it were done / Then for the first time, with the emotion / Of that first impulse on it still.",
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"text": "The shepherd he stood on the side of the hill, / And he looked main cold and peakèd; […]",
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"text": "And as he spoke, / He threw off his cloak, / He flung to the floor his peakèd hood, / And a gallant knight before her stood!",
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"text": "City life would doubtless soon reduce her to a thin, pale, peakèd specimen of humanity, unrecognisable by her friends.",
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"ref": "1915, Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord, “The Little Sand-Men”, in Sandman Time, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, page 13:",
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},
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"ref": "1931, Frank Allaben, Poems, New York, N.Y.: The National Historical Society, page 89:",
"text": "Forgive us, sin-pale, peakèd, wizen, / Deaf, blind, and dead, that blaspheme Thee!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1931, Thornton Wilder, “The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden”, in The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, Inc.; New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, published 1932, page 109:",
"text": "(She follows the dog with her eyes.) Looked kinda peakèd to me. Needs a good honest bowl of leavings. Pretty dog, too.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, David J. Murray, “Our Limitations”, in Surface Tension and Other Poems, New York, N.Y., Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 113:",
"text": "Sequesterèd and lonelier than clouds / Are quixexoticicities and wants / That outstride needs and drag us, unsublime, / Unto the peakèd caps of jostling Alps; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Courtship, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 125:",
"text": "“I thought you looked a bit peakèd last time I saw you.” / “Very observant.” / Barry looked around. This was not the place for a consultation. “I’d like to take a look at you.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Don Gutteridge, Dubious Allegiance, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 157:",
"text": "“I did not want to trouble you, sir, when you first come in, as you looked quite peakèd, but the courier left a message for you, the one that come from Montreal.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You, New York, N.Y.: Ecco, →ISBN, page 54:",
"text": "“I’m yanking your schwantz, Frank. You look a little peakèd. You takin’ care of yourself?” I’m down off this berm now, my shoes full of cold sand, my ass damp. Arnie, for his part, looks robust, which was what his cosmetic work was in behalf of. He looks to have swelled out his chest a few centimeters and deepened his voice. I don’t like being said to be peakèd.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, C.D. Hopkins, “One Good Man”, in The Nipple of the Queen, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse LLC, →ISBN, pages 245, 250, and 252:",
"text": "“I’m concerned about you, Janet. You’re looking peakèd.” It’s winter, she says. You’re supposed to look peakèd. […] He says, “You’re looking good—not so peakèd.” […] She looks as though she might have been crying; she looks peakèd.",
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"ref": "2023, Henry Grinberg, Wild About Harry, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:",
"text": "It was the first time I seen ’im since that day of that picnic, weeks ago, and he looked real changed—thin and peakèd-like.",
"type": "quote"
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