pecker
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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 up your pecker, my hearty; you'll make yer fortune when Mr. Barnum sees yer!
From Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies by Jacks, L. P.
"Them strangers an' grandpap an' Uncle Arch—an' another rock- pecker."
From The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John
Concrete peckers will be used to take the old bridge away before the debris is removed and the new bridge will be wheeled down the motorway and fitted into place.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
A perennial headache is the exotic structures' attraction for curiosity seekers and peckers.
From Time Magazine Archive
She lingered uncertainly among complacent wood peckers from the north.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
Sez Dick o’ Grate Beckers, just keep up yor peckers, Yo’ hevn’t much longer to wait, For blue milk an’ porridge, yo’ll get better forridge, Wen th’ railway gets fairly agait.
From Th' History o' Haworth Railway fra' th' beginnin' to th' end, wi' an ackaant o' th' oppnin' serrimony by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
