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 up your pecker, my hearty; you'll make yer fortune when Mr. Barnum sees yer!
From Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies by L. P. Jacks
I think we shall run in the kidnappers; keep your pecker up.
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
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 Neltje Blanchan
The young ’un, despite this friendly advice, felt very far from keeping up his pecker.
From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed
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
Of course the swallows had long since departed, and with the advent of the blue-jays and golden-winged wood peckers a few heavy-pinioned hawks had appeared, wheeling all day over the pine-woods, calling querulously.
From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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