Peepi

As spring advanced, they began to venture out of their hiding-place, and were all successful in getting food to eke out their winter's stock, except the youngest, who was called Peepi-geewi-zains, or the Pigeon Hawk.

The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

For far from possessing an absolute aversion to evil, by his very nature it was the hardest thing in the world for Peepi to do right.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

Thus subject to contrary impulses, over which he had not the faintest control, Peepi was plainly denuded of all moral obligation to virtue.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

Peepi coolly begged of Media the favor, to have those same dentals drawn on the spot, and presented to him.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

And former Peepies, infant and adult, had received homage more profound, than Peepi the Present.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

It was an article of faith with the people of Valapee, that Peepi not only actually possessed the souls bequeathed to him; but that his own was enriched by their peculiar qualities: The headlong valor of the late

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

Presently, Peepi, the ruler of Valapee drew near: a boy, hardly ten years old, striding the neck of a burly mute, bearing a long spear erect before him, to which was attached a canopy of five broad banana leaves, new plucked.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

All boons from Peepi were entreated when the prodigal

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

But when they went further, and vowed by statute, that Peepi could do no wrong, they assuredly did violence to the truth; besides, making a sad blunder in their logic.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

But had all these, and similar opposite qualities, simultaneously acted as motives upon Peepi, certes, he would have been a most pitiable mortal, in a ceaseless eddy of resolves, incapable of a solitary act.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855