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Peake
/ piːk /
noun
- PeakeMervyn19111968MEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: poetARTS AND CRAFTS: illustrator 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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His agent Tony Peake told me Jarman would have been “You Tubeing like mad” had he lived.
From The Daily Beast
From the year 1823 until 1856, Mr. Peake was actively engaged in mercantile pursuits on the island.
From Project Gutenberg
And Remson Peake's apartment had the rare, almost unique, quality of disarming criticism.
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Peake was now questioned as to the name of his ship, the Captain, and the number of cannon on board. '
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For the land, it is said, Fauntleroy paid the Indians "ten fathoms of peake and thirty arms lengths of Rhoanoke."
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Will Peake hailed me civilly, and hearing of my plight, readily charged himself with the business of the boat.
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