Suddenly, amid a furious clamour of the drums, Bakahenzie, Marufa, and one other of the inner cult of the five who had not deserted, led the body of the doctors in a rush into the sacred enclosure, seized upon the startled King and hustled him to the base of the idol where, yielding to the whispered instructions of Marufa, he took the idol once more upon his shoulders and guided by Bakahenzie, walked out of the gate and through the village to the yelling and screaming of the wizards, some of whom, according to precedent, ran about screeching and rattling hut doors, pulling thatches and howling ferociously in search of any sacrilegious peeper.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
They staid in his room till the sun was high: But still did the feathered one give no sign Of opening a peeper-he might be a sleeper Such as rests on the Northern or Midland line.
"Verses and Translations"
C. S. C.
"It is, indeed," said Mr. Slick, "particularly to him that loses his peeper.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton