I peered skyward again, and the image of the unbroken cloud cover quickly sent my thoughts back to a similar scene I'd witnessed at a different time, in a different place.

Richard peered skyward.

When the smoke cleared, he sidled closer and saw that the bird-thing had risen up within its cell, peering skyward and ignoring droplets that settled, mistlike, on its feathered back.

No young Japanese peered skyward to chat with cherubic Gutfreund-san.

Grinning at the futility of his action, Jaxom nonetheless couldn't resist uncovering Wansor's viewer and peering skyward.

ACROSS the middle of the country, in an area renowned for tornadoes, blizzards and thunderstorms, a new network of radars is peering skyward to tell the weatherman which way the wind blows.

She peered skyward.

She flattened herself in the wash and peered skyward.

She stopped for a moment and peered skyward into the billowing mass.

The United Architects plan creates great rooms 70 feet below ground level, from which visitors can peer skyward through openings formed by the tower footprints.