Peake listened and was drawn into an admission that it was a good scheme and deserved to succeed.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories|Arnold Bennett
The interior of the drawing-room realized very well Peake's ideals.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories|Arnold Bennett
Peake stared at Vodrey, and then took two steps forward, stamping his feet.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories|Arnold Bennett
During the next few days Peake went through a novel and very disturbing experience.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories|Arnold Bennett
Peake was perplexed, he felt that he was weakening; but, being a man of resourceful obstinacy, he was by no means defeated.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories|Arnold Bennett
Peake
/ (piːk) /
noun
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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