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Helen Roach put her arm around her husband’s waist and gave him a peck on the cheek
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“You are nothing less than a vision my love,” and gave her a peck on the cheek
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Finding my first seed did not grow, which I easily imagined was by the drought, I sought for a moister piece of ground to make another trial in, and I dug up a piece of ground near my new bower, and sowed the rest of my seed in February, a little before the vernal equinox; and this having the rainy months of March and April to water it, sprung up very pleasantly, and yielded a very good crop; but having part of the seed left only, and not daring to sow all that I had, I had but a small quantity at last, my whole crop not amounting to above half a peck of each kind
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her a grateful peck on the cheek, I went to have a look
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Three sestertii equal to about sixpence sterling, was the price which the republic paid for the modius or peck of the tithe wheat of Sicily
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When the Romans, therefore, had occasion to order more corn than the tithe of wheat amounted to, they were bound by capitulation to pay for the surplus at the rate of four sestertii, or eightpence sterling the peck; and this had probably been reckoned the moderate and reasonable, that is, the ordinary or average contract price of those times; it is equal to about one-and-twenty shillings the quarter
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A goodbye kiss is a peck on the cheek or a chaste one on the lips! I told you it was all or nothing, because it would be too complicated to be halfway
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From little things he said and did, it was clear to her that he wanted the physical side of their relationship to move to a higher level – beyond holding hands and a peck on the cheek
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He had obviously meant that he wanted more than merely holding hands and a peck on the cheek
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And she quickly, shyly, delivered a peck on his bristly cheek
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They kissed very briefly, a peck of
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morning when everyone else was out and the gentle peck on the
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The evening ended well and now there were only a few of us left in the pub finally it was time for us to leave and we got up to go Anne and Ivy were weeping and there were kisses all round and the kiss that Ivy gave me was anything but a peck on the cheek
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must have blushed, for she laughed, came over and with a peck on my cheek, asked, “See
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"And much appreciated Hobart, much appreciated," Aunt Martha assured him, with a soothing smile and a peck on the cheek
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“How wonderful to have you here in San José, Gordy!” she gushed and offered her hand and cheek for Edward to peck at
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The old woman certainly had been strongly opinionated in the past, having called me a ‘beelze-bob’ and a ‘a peck of a cock’ among other less colourful and not as endearing terms
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She nodded, giving him one last peck and noting, as she did, the pistol stuffed into his waistband
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That little peck he couldn’t hold inside
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Alexander Peck, teacher, writer, and editor, has lived and worked in Australia, the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
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” He said after giving me a brief peck on both cheeks “You look ravishing as always
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While Sean leans in to give me a peck and a hug, Zachary roars the engine, and my heart warms to its alluring sound
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With two steaming mugs in her hands, she hugs me, careful not to spill the drinks while I peck her cheek
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Kami, hearing this, gave a peck to Yania’s forehead
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“They want us to die so they can eat us!” shouted Kami while several vultures began grabbing her shirt with their claws, trying to peck her
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“to arrest,” another peck, “all those who love us
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” Said Cody, as they started towards the main entrance, “I'm a wee bit peck 'ish myself
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He seated himself on a low retaining wall beside her and gave her a quick peck on the cheek, not wanting to break her concentration by giving a more thorough greeting
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They peck at his mind like wild birds and he cannot shake them away
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Right now he seemed to be Gregory Peck in Twelve O'Clock High
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peck at my hands when I placed pieces of fruit between the bars
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After giving the girl a playful little peck on the cheek, George slid out of the bed
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swing it further open, sharp beak open as he tried to peck at her, should she be within striking
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Zach gave up trying to untie Bryony’s legs, and let Edwin peck at the twine instead
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He gave me a peck on the cheek and bounced
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Kirk of Star Trek; Charlton Heston as Moses and Judah Ben-Hur; Gregory Peck as
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His wife had been up since dawn and at ten, after a quick peck on Sean’s cheek and a cautionary nod at me, she stumped up the stairs to the waiting taxi
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She moves her hands, fingers lock behind your neck, another little peck and she lets a hand run down your chest
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I thanked her with a peck on a withered cheek, and regretfully declined – it had been wonderful but I was promised to a Camp in Scotland
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"It will never find its parents," Daniel watched it peck the last bit of grass out of its wing
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the expected peck on the cheek and promised I would eat regularly as I backed
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He invited me in and as I walked past him, he tried to give me a peck on
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Charlie slung his arm around Mal’s shoulders and gave him a peck on the cheek
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” He leaned over and gave Jean a peck on the cheek, then folded the sweater neatly
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was just a little reassuring peck that let her know he loved her and
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flowers and she gave him a peck on the cheek as a thankyou and
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" Then she gave him a peck on
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peck and prod at it with more
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would peck and prod at it with
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ensures that they don't peck at each other
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toes of pigeons and inducing them to use their vision to peck at
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He struggled to pry Marie from his face as she continued to rambunctiously peck at his lips and cheeks
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hand) to hunt, find and then peck out the
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hunt and peck with two fingers in a sorry
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An avidactyl peck Joey on his hand and held on, ripping the clothes and the skin on it
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Then he gripped the handheld navigation device that was wirelessly locked onto the location of Hank Evans's implant and began to peck harshly on the tiny keys with his thumbs
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me three kisses, one on each cheek and a peck on the mouth
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a peck on the cheek
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Short finished the call and hugged Star, gave her a peck on the cheek, smiled and left
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will spur and peck until it is nothing but a stinking, unrecognizable pile
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I got about the same, a pick-up hug and a peck on
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friendly peck on the cheek
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” Asia gave Otto a peck on the cheek
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He kissed her on the lips as they parted, not a long, lingering kiss as he would have liked but a quick peck so as not to unduly antagonize the watching parents
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He gave her a peck on the cheek that gave her more thrills than she had had in the last four years and then stood up
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Then again, he thought while glancing back, that wasn’t just a peck on the cheek she had just given him
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She put her hands on his shoulders and stood on tiptoe to reach up and peck him on the cheek
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“And I want to marry you, too,” he told her, giving her a chaste peck on the cheek and an encouraging smile
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In seeing her pain; he gave her a peck on her forehead
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“I tried to call you,” he said giving her a peck on the cheek
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There will always be those who will peck at us trying to chip away at our resolve
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’ I gave him a peck on the cheek, but he didn’t seem to notice
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‘It was only a peck though, nothing to worry about
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seat, he gave Bev a quick peck on her lips
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quick peck on the lips and a hug
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followed this with a peck on his cheek, a wink, and not another word
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hug and a peck on his cheek, Molly began to speak with the news crowd
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gave each other a happy, quick peck on the lips
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a quick peck on the lips
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I gave Sue a little peck of a kiss on the tip of her
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Sue and I gave each other a quick peck on the lips and I
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Then we gave each other a peck on the lips and chewed
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To him, a peck on the cheek was sex, to me, it was much more
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We then gave each other a quick peck on the lips
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” Bev gave Zem a happy peck on
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And not a peck on the cheek
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• Divine Reflections in Times and Seasons, Eva Peck
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• Divine Reflections in Living Things, Eva Peck
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Eva Peck has created several websites with spi-
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Could he tell? Apart from the usual peck on the cheek, I’d never locked lips with anyone before
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With a twinkle in his eye, he laid a brief peck on Regina’s cheek, causing her to blush profusely
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I gave him a peck on the cheek
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” He gave her a peck on the cheek
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It was just a peck, really
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Kinsley a peck on the cheek as she floated past
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" He gives her a peck and a gentle shove, but she won't be moved, choosing instead to thread her fingers through his
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She approached, quacked and pecked at the boots of
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They squawked and pecked at each other as she broke a trail from the tire to the coop
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” He reached in for another hen, which was waiting in ambush, and pecked at his hand until she, too, was encouraged to give up her ground and leave
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When I stepped back and became more of an observer than a participant, when I watched my cousins interact with those chickens in the same ways that I did when I was younger, it was quite clear to see just how important those chickens truly were (even if they did smell like poop and pecked at my hands whenever I’d pick one up to hold it)
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Birds pecked at the corpses, but they recognised the men by the clothes they wore
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pecked thrice on his head
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“I know”, Levi stated as he pecked my nose
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The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree
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Loose sand grains, that had taken flight in the breeze, pecked at his cheek causing his eye to squint
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Loose sand grains, that had taken flight in the breeze, pecked at
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pecked the other three from the ground in rapid succession
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And pecked at his head, which killed him quite dead
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Their faces were dotted with red pinch marks, and their clothes riddled with holes where the chickens had pecked at them
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" She pecked her unresisting parents on the cheek and they followed her to the door like lost sheep
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Returned birds pecked at seed on the floor of the aviary
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Before I could answer she ruffled her hand through my bristles, pecked me on the cheek and shut herself in her room
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After they had fed the lonely seagull it came up to Jezzabell and pecked her dull black shoes
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The seagull then pecked at Daniels foot and gave a huge yawn at Slinks
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pecked the chubby finger and the hand went out
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“If you could climb up and take one small bite, it would look as if a bird had pecked it,” she said
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He pecked me on the lips
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I pecked her lips once, not wanting Nathan to see our PDA
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He raised his body and then pecked my lips before pulling himself off me
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Aidan smiled and pecked my lips
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I pecked her lips twice before I ended our kiss
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He grinned and then pecked my lips, our first PDA in front of his colleagues
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Lily pecked my lips and leaned away before I could deepen the kiss
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Pon held her again and pecked her on the cheek
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They couldn’t recognize him immediately, the roosters had pecked out his eyes, ruining his cheeks and lips, all a mess
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Fearing that wasn"t enough I pecked her on the lips and told her that I loved her ever so deeply
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The words just came to him and he pecked them out onto the paper
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Sitting in her wicker rocking chair, she would recall the past, reconstruct the grandeur and misfortunes of the family and the splendor of Macondo, which was now erased, while Álvaro frightened the crocodiles with his noisy laughter and Alfonso invented outlandish stories about the bitterns who had pecked out the eyes of four customers who misbehaved the week before, and Gabriel was in the room of the pensive mulatto girl who did not collect in money but in letters to a smuggler boyfriend who was in prison on the other side of the Orinoco because the border guards had caught him and had made him sit on a chamberpot that filled up with a mixture of shit and diamonds
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Marie pecked him lightly on the temple
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“Sure,” she said and pecked him on the cheek
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I then pecked at the ground and began to gather twigs
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There was a wide-eyed pause, then he pecked his nose in the direction of the flapper on the opposite side of the circle
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Saffyre threw up her hands to protect her face as they pecked viciously at her
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Who pecked out his eyes as they grew
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Rhone melted as her moist lips pecked at the side of his
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pecked her cheek, and watched her as she walked slowly away
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hugged and kissed lightly, and she pecked me on the cheek
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’ He said and pecked her on the chic, before sitting up on the kitchen cabinet
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She passed him his keys and pecked him on the cheek
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with their wings and pecked one another on the head
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The falcon took his toothed beak and viciously pecked one of the man’s eyeballs repeatedly in the socket as the man screamed and writhed with pain
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He pecked her cheek and vanished
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Moving down he pecked and kissed her savouring every essence of her body
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” I quickly pecked his cheek, then laced his fingers with mine
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She practically pecked his father to death, until they separated
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"Barnes! Not another corner! That doesn't work!" Barnes had flown into a corner on the other side, edging against stacks of yellowed paper and dusty jars networked with cobwebs; he pecked against the wall, as if he could somehow work through it
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He pecked at the cardboard, trying to break in, get to the egg timer
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” Wrapping her arms around Pop's shoulders and kissed his bald head then pecked Nan on the cheek before leaving
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The eyes could have been pecked out without altering their gaze, as if they were still desperately holding on to something
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A blonde Swede brushed her teeth while studying the notices tacked to a decaying corkboard; a black backpacker with bright red braids kicked back reading a Lonely Planet guidebook; and a waif of a girl who looked like she couldn’t have been more than sixteen pecked out an e-mail at an aging computer terminal
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He was standing with Derrick, Josh, and Alicia at Claire's locker, glaring at Cayden and Claire as Cayden pecked Claire's lips, but once Claire turned back to face them, the glare disappeared, making him seem as if nothing bothered him
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They developed an addiction for experiencing vicarious pain, the pain of living flesh pecked at by dead beaks
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Especially while sleeping when the human subconscious mind can be attacked and pecked at by the conscious minds of these undead filth
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First it was the typewriter: where hundreds of millions of humans hunted and pecked at keys, now it the computer where hundreds of millions hunt and peck at keys
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Now all businesses have workers pecking away at cash registers, and organizers, and anything that has a keyboard that can be pecked at
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After every explosion: birds: birds of death: carrion birds: vultures, Ravens, Crows… came back to these areas of devastation: and hunted and pecked at the shiny pieces of flint… which the destructive volcanoes of the Inorganic Baby Earth had vomited up
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The short, incredibly thick-headed, stupid Russian bearded scum was a hen pecked husband who was dominated by his Germanic aristocrat of a wife
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That genetic retard, that-hen pecked husband of a freak with his massive inferiority complex and his massive stupidity and stubbornness, and his willingness to ignore all facts and reality in his fucking attempt to ‘keep up personal appearances’ signed his own death warrant and committed political suicide when he decided to take over the running of the war and his army personally
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It was hard because they felt glued shut and foreign to me, but there was something moving nearby and then something pecked my leg hard
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Swallowing reflexively I rose up on my toes and gave him a quick kiss that landed off-center so much so that I more or less just pecked at his cheek
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“Well I best be off,” and he pecked me on the cheek as he left for the power station with cheese and crackers in hand
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James shifted, pecked a good morning kiss on the back of my shoulder and patted my bottom, before abruptly rolling away
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He pecked her on the cheek and headed for the door, Tyrone behind him
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With a few graceful steps, she moved near him and pecked his cheek
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He pecked at the keys with one extended figure
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And the Greeks could paint fruit so that birds pecked at it
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I could have kissed the chickens that pecked on the common;
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Paul took a bite at his forgotten apple, looked at the miserable cabbages in the garden, pecked into lace by the fowls, and he wanted to pull them up
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The fowl pecked at the rabbit, and the next day was
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The bird pecked frantically, slashing his knuckles
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Bullets of rain pecked vigorously at the windshield
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She pecked her father on the cheek and promised to call later
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” He pecked her on the cheek and disappeared
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She opened the door, and without as much as a squeak Jeff appeared from the dark stairs and pecked her on the lips
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She hugged Samantha, pecked her ex properly on the cheek, and sat down
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He pecked her on the cheek and said, “I’m off
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I had hardly noticed them when I waited for Will during his check-ups; I had read magazines, pecked out messages on my phone, strolled downstairs for too-strong hospital coffee on an overpriced concourse, worried about car-parking charges
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By observing which of them were pecked by the birds we avoided all danger of poison and added a delicious variety to our food reserve
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Daddy, dignified in his summer-weight wool, pecked her on the cheek
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So I’ve got it out and away from my body, trying to avoid getting pecked to death, and I climb up on the wobbly toilet seat and very slowly when the wingbeat subsides put bird and board and then my head out through the transom, where the sun is just coming up, praise be to the dashboard Jesi, red morning, streets beginning to articulate again, but there’s no time to commune with you, New York, I disengage the wing from the glue, and then I’ve got to do the legs, too, but soft, so as not to rip anything, which occasions another flurry, and all of a sudden I’m furious at the position I find myself in, I don’t know if I mean in the bathroom or in this city or as a human being or what, but I’m yelling, ‘Hold still, goddammit’—and everything I ever told you is a lie if the thing doesn’t go completely still, pluck pluck, the legs come unstuck, and without thinking I open my hand and it just … plummets
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Crows always pecked a corpse’s eyes out first, he had heard, but maybe the tongue went second
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I winked at Bree and pecked her cheek
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The horses were eating oats from their movable troughs and sparrows flew down and pecked the grains that fell
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"Be off with you!" Two sparrows pecked in the shuttling loom
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Out of the hood hung lank shreds of brown, at which the hungry birds pecked and tore
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They stood and looked in my eye or pecked at my shoe significantly
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They were so familiar that at length one alighted on an armful of wood which I was carrying in, and pecked at the sticks without fear
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But as soon as the drum beat and the prisoners massed themselves at the great gate, out ran the geese after them, cackling and flapping their wings, then they jumped one after the other over the elevated threshold of the gateway; while the convicts were at their work, the geese pecked about at a little distance from them
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What matter were those figments of some computer’s imagination, puffing about their silly tribal pecking orders when he was standing on a world which had outgrown such savagery thousands of years in the past?
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Why had she left? What was the sense in this? So many questions flying about in his head, then pecking away at him like a flock of trapped, panicking birds
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I imagine that some of my first nightmares were about those shrieking hens pecking and biting off my little sausage fingers as I tried to gather eggs for breakfast (this may or may not, also, be why I slept with a pocket knife underneath my pillow for the majority of my youth — to keep those psycho chickens from making num-nums out of my nose pickers)
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I was too afraid of those pecking hens and the pain of their sharp beaks
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With her eyes wide from my quick offensive, she tried to counter attack, pecking at me wildly
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He was quick, clawing and pecking at my shins
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Tearing free of the talons, the robin attacked the crow, pecking at its eyes with such ferocity that the crow cawed in terror, frightening the crows in the nearby rookery, so that they all took off as one, turning the sky turned black
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He’d never used a credcom before, but soon worked out how to turn it on, his dirty fingers pecking at the screen
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“Women still have the nesting instinct, and men and children still have the pecking order
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Animals have a pecking order, but only a basic, instinctive ego
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The most complex hierarchical development in animal societies seems to have been an alpha male surrounded by a coterie of slightly lesser males arranged in some kind of pecking order
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I noticed that there seemed to be something of a pecking order with the Choson on the top, the Leni lenape and Hasinai in the middle position, and the other two on the bottom
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outside the shell would have been of little use to it, but pecking
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had become the leader of the gang because that was the pecking
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Concentrating intensely, Kami commanded that all the seagulls on the beach start pecking the aggressors
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And then a flurry of other words and thoughts chopping, pecking at his blood
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murmuring sounds, pecking at unseen things in the grass
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Yeah, but I just got the picture of you with a roadrunner in your hair pecking at
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The clucking reached an excited crescendo as the chickens surged forwards, pecking ravenously at the fallen grains
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“Don’t you know there is a pecking order on this farm?”
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He started pecking at the inside of the sack
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The chickens flew at Dawes and Katya, driving them back with a furious frenzy of pecking and flapping
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“That's much better,” he said, pecking her on the cheek and
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In the distance, you could see the little red roofing of the village’s hovels and further away the figure of a few pines pecking the leafy clouds that the wind was dragging fast
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Those wise and brave men entrusted us with ensuring Homo sapiens never again became top of the pecking order
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As for safety procedures, those are well down the financial pecking order
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He sat and stared at a tiny wren sitting in his garden and pecking at the grass
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Maybe plants don't like you pecking away at them either
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A fellow director in HR told me that many of our key-punch ‘girls’, young women who worked eight hours a day pecking away at a typewriter keyboard, had deliberately omitted their degrees on their job applications, afraid that we would think them over qualified
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It was still scratching and pecking the floor when he was within its reach
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"In the pecking order of things,
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He was a friendly sort of fellow, grinning at me and then gently pecking me between the ears
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Chickens in the wild live according to a pecking order
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Frustrated, Joey put the knife in his mouth and fired a Noiburst at the avidactyl pecking on his foot the other bird had stretched out in its talon
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He pulled out the ancient keyboard and began pecking at the keys with his index fingers until Simon's monitor brought up the log of his brain activity
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The bodyguard that was doing the night shift on the bridge of the yacht was a relatively junior one in the pecking order of Roman Abramovich’s small army of bodyguard, thus had been given with two other junior bodyguards the shift when the threat would be the least
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These large fowl were pecking, knocking over, picking up and puking on the ones closest to the bottom of the refuge, but also those who already starting up
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Then he disappeared for a week the only indication he was still in the office was a continuous pecking away at a keyboard sounding like a man possessed
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Blake started off by pecking her on the cheek
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A swarm of seagulls swooped in and started pecking at the stray pizza slice
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bottom of the pecking order were ignored or insulted
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It was a surprise that they’d stolen her shredded marmalade if she was that high up in the pecking order!
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Now, a single card would decide the pecking or-
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because he’d be pecking me on the head all day
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because he'd be pecking me on the head all day
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While the prospect of boating across it shocked her water phobic psyche, Rao’s coaxing of her, which bordered on pecking, amused the travelers and the boatmen alike
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me any hint of what the pecking order was
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It had a sign reading PECKING GRAPPLER-BIRDS
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Pecking Grappler-Birds swarmed out, quickly filling up the space of Subterranean Layer 53
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It’s just that I—” Terminus fluttered over him, pecking Andrew on the head
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Pecking Order: Law of the Coop
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father their offspring, the women would form a pecking order as to who
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Men have a pecking order as well, but I have not seen the catty
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The General, Chestnut, Rambo, and Rusty were the most stubborn of the herd, all constantly vying for the upper ranks in the pecking order, and Therese didn’t like having to hit or kick or growl at the animals to get their cooperation
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they will establish a pecking order
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Silas examined one, pecking it with his beak
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The geese complained as he pushed through, honking and pecking as they surrounded him
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large raven crouched over the carcass, pecking at the eyes
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school pecking order, while trying to win the attention and respect
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gled out by the group as the one who's not getting it---it's a pecking
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only the politics and pecking orders have increased even more,
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It's the Pecking Order thing
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"That same old silly Pecking Order again
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winced, "and the stupid Pecking Order
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The pigeon was pecking at crumbs on the little table
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of roosters running around the road, clucking, pecking, and
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Jackals are the sneakiest sneaks, the worst cowards, and the worst weaklings of the African predator pecking order
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Where do you think the culture of vicariousness came from? It came from birds pecking at living mammals dying in pain
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Hunting and pecking at things: is what birds do instinctively
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Now all businesses have workers pecking away at cash registers, and organizers, and anything that has a keyboard that can be pecked at
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Pecking at the earth they hate for untold millions of years
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Bowing and pecking are not signs of human love
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They are signs of reptile birds pecking at each other in spite and irritation, in hate and fear
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This gave the apes and monkeys of Africa the mistaken impression that these insane birds of death: the stupidest, dumbest birdbrains alive: were returning to worship the devastation of Volcanoes and pecking at this material called flint
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Insane reptilian birds: pecking At this shiny material of inorganic death… once hidden deep in veins under the earth: pieces of ate, eight: gold coins cut into eight pieces
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English culture is permeated with undead reptile-bird culture: the slang term for the male penis is pecker: A blind bird beak pecking at something it wants to get into
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Who were the Cro-Magnons? They were the first modern men to improve ancient tools which had not changed for millions of years; they were humans infected with the undead spirits of crows and magpies; pecking at things making tools obsessively all day with their Hunt-and- peck method of bone/flint chipping
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We observe the behavioural dynamics of ‘the pecking order’ in many species- sex drive and the survival needs of food, water and shelter
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His entire medieval culture was being taken over by the industrialized nations around him, and his reaction was to bury his head in the sand as deeply as possible and pretend it wasn’t happening, while being dominated by his imperious German royal hen of a wife pecking him to death
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swiped at the birds but they kept coming, pecking and
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Somehow managing to pull a pink cloud away from his face, he saw that the peg was actually a seagull's head, which ogled him maliciously with its black beady eye while pecking at his fingers with its hard yellow beak
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Loofah tried again, pecking out the letters on the snapping teeth: 'FIGURES'
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for the highest pecking
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real threat to her position in the pecking order?
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Where in the pecking order does the
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A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him
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He pulled her hair whenever she came near him, upset his bread and milk to plague her when she had newly cleaned his cage, made Mop bark by pecking at him while Madam dozed, called her names before company, and behaved in all respects like an reprehensible old bird
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"That's a lie! Oh, lor!" cried the parrot, pecking at Laurie's toes
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There were some gold and some white fowls pecking under the apple trees of an orchard
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This rabbit dead, the Abbe Adelmonte has its entrails taken out by his cook and thrown on the dunghill; on this dunghill is a hen, who, pecking these intestines, is in her turn taken ill, and dies next day
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Early one morning that September his wife, Hazel, arose to find Ulbrickson already awake, sitting in his pajamas at an old typewriter, assiduously pecking at the keys
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An apothecary was a mere merchant, well below a prior in the pecking order
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had finished the fragments of lettuce he had found, was sitting up and looking Kehaar went on pecking at the broken pieces of stale bread
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With the reassignment, other changes had taken place in the pecking order of command
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They were contemporaries, competitors in the military pecking order
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Fifteen minutes into the meeting it was apparent that there was no real pecking order in this family
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‘Ah! how sweet it is! don’t frighten it!’ Kitty said suddenly, looking at a sparrow that had settled on the step and was pecking at the center of a raspberry
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She has a bird-like style of conversation, pecking away at the subject in a way I find most engaging, and a school-monitor style of dress which I can only call "saucy"
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Mohammed comes around to John’s side of the limo, pecks on the window
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gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling
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Two shillings, therefore, was the price of two bushels and near two pecks of wheat, which in the present times, at three shillings and sixpence the bushel, would be worth eight shillings and ninepence
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But fourteen-pence was in those times the price of a bushel and near two pecks of wheat; which in the present times, at three and sixpence the bushel, would cost five shillings and threepence
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I'm tired to death and I don't believe the rooms will look much better than before we started-- though I shook out pecks of dust in the graveyard
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The Pecks live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia where they continue to write
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More than thirty gulls descended on the small group of little monsters, giving them strong pecks with their beaks
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Howard?” I laughed playing with the little bit of chest hair that was on his hard as rock pecks and abs
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They started with small pecks at first and before long they were rapidly probing each others mouths with their tongues
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She wondered if these little pecks would ever stop thrilling her
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Soren would steal pecks from Ailia, but she knew he was holding back, not wanting to embarrass her or the others with their display of affection
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He pecks you hesitantly on your
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And while I'm dumbfounded with shock, he leans forward and pecks me on the lips
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Risking a few pecks on her mouth just for the smile I would receive
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JUST AS HE REACHES HER AND PECKS HIM ON THE CHEEK
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Mistaking the Nautilus for the corpse of a whale, some of them alighted on it and prodded its resonant sheet iron with pecks of their beaks
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There have been the Leylands, Polly Pecks and the like over the years, but that is still pretty unusual, and massive collapses such as the 2008 folding of Lehman Brothers, one of Wall Street’s largest banks, are thankfully rarer still
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In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering little pecks on the bark
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"D'ye mark him, Flask?" whispered Stubb; "the chick that's in him pecks the shell