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

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

“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

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