[Vocabulary] Can a stone peep out of the water?

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Marina Gaidar

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Can a stone peep out of the water? Or I need some other verb?
 

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Can a stone peep out of the water? Or do I need some other verb?
Stones, of course, cannot peep. However, in certain poetic styles of writing, a stone can indeed peep out of the water.
 

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It might jut out of the water.
 
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