peg away
Example Sentences
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And to have to do it every day for a whole term, and peg away at scales and arpeggios!
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Brazil, Angela
They had to peg away for dear life, pushing themselves forward with their skee-staves, laboring like plough-horses, panting, snorting, perspiring.
From Boyhood in Norway by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
He was not always successful at the first attempt, but his self-reliance caused him to peg away in the face of every difficulty and even seeming failure, and he invariably succeeded in the end.
From The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President by Rutherford, William G.
You must read Dash," said B. "If you take my advice," said C., "and you know I'm not easily pleased by modern fiction, you'll get Dash and simply peg away till you've finished it.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
"Heaven grant that they may be of a kind sufficiently noxious for the doctor to let me peg away at them!"
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules
