pecker
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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
The bark of the squirrel, the cooing of mated doves, the “rat-ta-ta” of the pecker, and the constant and measured chirrup of the cicada, are all ringing together.
From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.
I think we shall run in the kidnappers; keep your pecker up.
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
The natural home of Taxus—the Exchequer— Harbours a creature that keeps up its pecker.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891 by Various
Now were G-SCH-N seen collecting cash for his dry Exchequer With pole and net, it were nicer, you bet, than keeping up his financial pecker With Spirit Duties!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 by Various
Concrete peckers will be used to take the old bridge away before the debris is removed and the new bridge will be wheeled down the motorway and fitted into place.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
A perennial headache is the exotic structures' attraction for curiosity seekers and peckers.
From Time Magazine Archive
She lingered uncertainly among complacent wood peckers from the north.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
It wasn't your fault, only your instinct, so I quite forgive you; but no wonder the peckers wear better than the pecked.
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
