Now the grime-filmed upper-level windows of their facades peered sadly across at each other over gape-mouthed loading bay entrances whose shutters were all jammed somewhere uncommitted between open and closed.

Through the rear passenger window of their automobile peered a sulky replica of myself and Robert at the age of five.

Moving onto the passenger compartment, he ordered the soldier to scrub away the frozen coating from one of the side windows then peered inside.

With no windows to peer into, consumers sometimes walk into the new stores, discover they are in the wrong chain - wrong gender, wrong stage of life and the wrong fashion sensibility - and promptly race out.

Windows looked out onto the landing field and the wrecked jetter . . . more windows peered into shadowy woods . . . gigantic rock fireplace at one end, smoke blackened.

Half a mile up the brook was the only house in sight--an old, rambling, gray one surrounded by huge willows through which its windows peered, like shy, seeking eyes, into the dusk.

A door in one short wall led into the corridor, while a window opposite peered from the outskirts of the city toward the gleaming skyline of the urban center.

Doors were firmly closed, windows too dark to peer through.

Dull, furtive windows in old tottering brick Peered at me oddly as I hastened by, And thinking what they sheltered, I grew sick For a redeeming glimpse of clean blue sky.

These are the much-photographed 'old bits' The remainder of the High Street is 70 per cent Georgian-I should, perhaps, say 35 per cent, because the shopfronts have eaten up half the façades and sash windows peer over the enormous flashing fascias of the chain stores...