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

He's half a wife, yon pecker bill; A book and likewise preacher.

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George

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.

He never bores a tree to get insects as his cousins do, for only when a nest must be chiseled out is he a wood pecker in the strict sense.

From Birds Every Child Should Know by Blanchan, Neltje

The young ’un, despite this friendly advice, felt very far from keeping up his pecker.

From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Reed, Talbot Baines