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

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

"Keep your pecker up, old feller! and put your trust in old beans," was Mr.Bouncer's reply.

From Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green by Bede, Cuthbert

The other cause is the very imperfect mode of its preparation for market; this being invariably accomplished by the primitive pestle and mortar, or the old-fashioned "pecker mill."

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

“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