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
Well, keep up yer pecker, my pippin, and keep down yer natural rage.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry
“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
All around reigned holy silence, Only heard there was the hammering Of the pecker on the pine-trees.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
He never bores a tree to get insects as his cousins do, for only when a nest must be chiseled out is he a wood pecker in the strict sense.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Blanchan, Neltje
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 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
