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

“Keep your pecker up, and if you’ll take the advice of an old sailor, I’d recommend you to write to your friends and go home.”

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

That's a matter of doubt, cross-hedges my pathway still chequer, The clue I've let slip, but you just take my tip; we'll get clear—if you keep up your pecker!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 by Various

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 Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

Our people met with other small birds there, but in no great variety and abundance; such as the wood pecker, the bullfinch, the yellow finch, and a small bird called a tit-mouse.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert