peg away
Example Sentences
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Oh, by jingo, no: it's quite enough to peg away at it when you are with us, without going at it while you are away.
From Bijou by Gyp
"Oh! well, you'll only peg away at it when you've a mind," said Alexia carelessly, and setting lazy stitches.
From Five Little Peppers Midway by Sidney, Margaret
And in the fallacious hope that the chops were coming, did the unconscious couple "peg" away till the driver clacked his long whip, and summoned his passengers to resume their seats in the diligence.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
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.
We begin about four o'clock in the afternoon, and peg away till any hour to-morrow morning that one or two Members please.
From Punch Among the Planets by Various
