Granny saw a crowd of people peering excitedly through the doorway, and reached up automatically to straighten her hat.

"That's all right," replied the young woman, rising from the table and peering excitedly around the room.

He peered excitedly upward, squinted at the darkness.

"Rrala is good for things from Terra too," Todd remarked, suddenly peering excitedly outside.

Crane put on all the magnification he had, and the girls peered excitedly at the familiar outlines of continent and oceans upon the lighted half of the visible disk.

Safely ensconced in the ladies' room, she peered excitedly into her plastic goody bag, the donor's version of a child's birthday party bag.

As their great journey began-away from the complexities and politics of the crowded inner worlds, off to the wide-open emptiness, the calm and cold precision of the outer system-Malenfant thought he glimpsed the squid themselves, rushing this way and that, peering excitedly from their rising bubble ship.

With a group of businessmen and commuters, Keith Pellig stepped eagerly down the metal ramp and emerged in the sunlight, blinking and peering excitedly around him, at his first view of the Directorate buildings, the endless hurrying people and traffic-and the waiting network of teeps.

But when it comes to doing so with modern technology instead of excitedly peering through a hole in the wall of the women's shower, the stakes are higher as concerns about privacy and identity theft become more common.

Libby peered excitedly out the window as the shuttle rose into the air, but Kim, out of force of habit, found himself analyzing the ship itself.