...Clambering down, she took from the table a small one-bladed penknife, with which she began to peck at the hard wood of the shutter...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...One even ventured to peck at his boot, but he ran away quickly...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...Oneday a woodpecker come erlong en 'mence' ter peck at de tree; en de nex'time Sandy wuz turnt back he had a little roun' hole in his arm, deslack a sharp stick be'n stuck in it...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The Conjure Woman」
...So he tuk a peck er 'taters en went downter her cabin one night...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The Conjure Woman」
...The slaves on our plantation were provided with very little meat In addition to the peck of corn or meal, they were allowed a little salt and a few herrings...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...One fellow grew bold enough to peck open a paperbag...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Tap-tap! Pick-pick! The Hen began to scratch and peck upon the roughbark of the log, but Oh dear me! suddenly she began to feel veryseasick...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...I have seen one alightin the middle of my canoe and peck away at the carcass of a beaver Ihad skinned...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897]」
...If you do not provide a liberal supply of mixed grit in asuitable hopper, you should keep at least a peck of clean sharp sand onthe floor of each pen all the time...
Carl Dare 「Profitable Squab Breeding」
...Durham, Arellano, and Peck (1952), Olsonand McGrew (1941), and Stirton (1954) have provided geological evidencethat there probably was no Cenozoic seaway in the Isthmus ofTehuantepec...
William E. Duellman 「A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico」
...Again he pauses; listens again; hops, perhaps once or twice,scarcely moving his position, and pecks smartly on the sod;then is once more motionless as a stuffed bird...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...A single peck ofcorn a week, or the like measure of rice, is the ordinary quantity ofprovision for a hard working slave; to which a small quantity of meat isoccasionally, tho' rarely, added...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
..."That is the cottage of Peck, the gardener...
Victor Rousseau 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930」
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