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

Well, keep up yer pecker, my pippin, and keep down yer natural rage.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry

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 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.)

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