Go with staff to cover hospital observation point

Usage examples of peephole.

But, he reminded himself, an office that had soundproof walls, a peephole from the next room where an armed guard sat watching every move, and a rear exit to an areaway where a car always waited.

But with Aunt Elizabeth safely tucked away, she had tiptoed down to the front door and peered through the fisheye peephole that provided a good view of the vestibule from the elevator on the left to the stairwell doors opposite.

He built a fence 3 miles long and 12 feet high around the steelworks and topped it with barbed wire, adding peepholes for rifles.

When the clock flipped over to 2:00, I pulled on a pair of black sweatpants, black sweatshirt, and black gloves, tiptoed out to the front door, and peeked through the peephole.

Its buildings are of two kinds: in the first the builders have disregarded the character of the local stone and permitted themselves an orgy of campaniles, baroque staircases, Norman arches, Moorish peepholes and bits of grisly Scottish chinoiserie and bondieuserie, if such terms may be allowed.

At this point his eye fell on the gourd-and even from a distance his consciousness was drawn into the peephole, and he was back among the brassies.

Driftwood and small sand heaps weigh down the cotton twill of the defunct Prussian Army and the checkered, stiff-dry yield of the latest flood, inhibiting their tendency to flutter away: nightgowns, morning coats, pants without seats, kitchen rags, jerkins, shriveled dress uniforms, curtains with peepholes, camisoles, pinafores, coachmen's coats, trusses, chest bandages, chewed-up carpets, the bowels of neckties, pennants from a shooting match, and a dowry of table linen stink and attract flies.

Bitterly reviling himself for not having planned for this contingency, he kept his eye to the peepholes The guards were not opening the gates, there was the sandbagged machine-gun emplacement to one side of the guard house, and Craig could see the barrel of the weapon traversing slowly to keep them covered as they approached.

Now I realize there must have been a peephole and Madame Bellaire was watching.

They'd been repainted so many times that the decorations in the woodwork, the peephole and the bell push were all clogged with paint.

Invited to slide back the door over a peephole, the inspectors saw an elderly though still sleek male specimen of Felis concolor, drowsy but alert enough to curl his lip in annoyance.

But Felton had advised Viaselli when he rented the floor in the Royal Plaza to reconstruct the entrance, eliminating the hallway in favor of a box-like entrance with peepholes.

It is not so easy, lying here in this scrubbed hospital bed under a glass peephole with Bruno's eye in it, to give a picture of the smoke clouds that rose from Kashubian potato fires or of the slanting October rain.

There were two keyholes, Yale and Chubb, and a discreetly situated peephole.

They stuck their ruby eyes to the peepholes and kept them firmly aimed at Nuri Bey's green, arched door way.