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

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

Shields rode out and hunted in the morning without Suckcess he returned at 11 A.M. having killed only a black wood pecker with a red breast as discribed hereafter.

From The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Lewis, Meriwether

All around reigned holy silence, Only heard there was the hammering Of the pecker on the pine-trees.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

The natural home of Taxus—the Exchequer— Harbours a creature that keeps up its pecker.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891 by Various