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

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

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

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

Keep your pecker up, old man, Georgie and I are both going to back you up.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)