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

Now were G-SCH-N seen collecting cash for his dry Exchequer With pole and net, it were nicer, you bet, than keeping up his financial pecker With Spirit Duties!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 by Various

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

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

"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