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
Keep your pecker up, old feller!" said Mr. Bouncer, in an encouraging tone, as they drove into Oxford, "and don't be down in the mouth about a dirty trick like this.
From Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green by Cuthbert Bede
Keep your pecker up, old man, Georgie and I are both going to back you up.
From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
"Them strangers an' grandpap an' Uncle Arch—an' another rock- pecker."
From The Heart of the Hills by John Fox
“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 William Heysham Overend
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
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
She lingered uncertainly among complacent wood peckers from the north.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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