pecker

Example Sentences

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"Thank you so much to everyone that has bought it - I hope you're having as much fun listening to it as I had making it. Keep your pecker up and all the very best."

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2014

Shields rode out and hunted in the morning without Suckcess he returned at 11 A.M. having killed only a black wood pecker with a red breast as discribed hereafter.

From The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Lewis, Meriwether

“We’re just off Beachy Head, and you must lie where you are till mornin’; but, as you must be famished by now, I’ve brought you a bit of grub to keep your pecker up.

From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by Overend, William Heysham

He's half a wife, yon pecker bill; A book and likewise preacher.

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George

Well, keep up yer pecker, my pippin, and keep down yer natural rage.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry