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1. Helen Roach put her arm around her husband’s waist and gave him a peck on the cheek
2. “You are nothing less than a vision my love,” and gave her a peck on the cheek
3. 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
4. her a grateful peck on the cheek, I went to have a look
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. He had obviously meant that he wanted more than merely holding hands and a peck on the cheek
10. And she quickly, shyly, delivered a peck on his bristly cheek
11. They kissed very briefly, a peck of
12. morning when everyone else was out and the gentle peck on the
13. 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
14. must have blushed, for she laughed, came over and with a peck on my cheek, asked, “See
15. "And much appreciated Hobart, much appreciated," Aunt Martha assured him, with a soothing smile and a peck on the cheek
16. “How wonderful to have you here in San José, Gordy!” she gushed and offered her hand and cheek for Edward to peck at
17. 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
18. She nodded, giving him one last peck and noting, as she did, the pistol stuffed into his waistband
19. That little peck he couldn’t hold inside
20. Alexander Peck, teacher, writer, and editor, has lived and worked in Australia, the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
21. ” He said after giving me a brief peck on both cheeks “You look ravishing as always
22. While Sean leans in to give me a peck and a hug, Zachary roars the engine, and my heart warms to its alluring sound
23. With two steaming mugs in her hands, she hugs me, careful not to spill the drinks while I peck her cheek
24. Kami, hearing this, gave a peck to Yania’s forehead
25. “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
26. “to arrest,” another peck, “all those who love us
27. ” Said Cody, as they started towards the main entrance, “I'm a wee bit peck 'ish myself
28. 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
29. They peck at his mind like wild birds and he cannot shake them away
30. Right now he seemed to be Gregory Peck in Twelve O'Clock High
31. peck at my hands when I placed pieces of fruit between the bars
32. After giving the girl a playful little peck on the cheek, George slid out of the bed
33. swing it further open, sharp beak open as he tried to peck at her, should she be within striking
34. Zach gave up trying to untie Bryony’s legs, and let Edwin peck at the twine instead
35. He gave me a peck on the cheek and bounced
36. Kirk of Star Trek; Charlton Heston as Moses and Judah Ben-Hur; Gregory Peck as
37. 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
38. She moves her hands, fingers lock behind your neck, another little peck and she lets a hand run down your chest
39. 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
40. "It will never find its parents," Daniel watched it peck the last bit of grass out of its wing
41. the expected peck on the cheek and promised I would eat regularly as I backed
42. He invited me in and as I walked past him, he tried to give me a peck on
43. Charlie slung his arm around Mal’s shoulders and gave him a peck on the cheek
44. ” He leaned over and gave Jean a peck on the cheek, then folded the sweater neatly
45. was just a little reassuring peck that let her know he loved her and
46. flowers and she gave him a peck on the cheek as a thankyou and
47. " Then she gave him a peck on
48. peck and prod at it with more
49. would peck and prod at it with
50. ensures that they don't peck at each other
1. She approached, quacked and pecked at the boots of
2. They squawked and pecked at each other as she broke a trail from the tire to the coop
3. ” 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
4. 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)
5. Birds pecked at the corpses, but they recognised the men by the clothes they wore
6. pecked thrice on his head
7. “I know”, Levi stated as he pecked my nose
8. 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
9. Loose sand grains, that had taken flight in the breeze, pecked at his cheek causing his eye to squint
10. Loose sand grains, that had taken flight in the breeze, pecked at
11. pecked the other three from the ground in rapid succession
12. And pecked at his head, which killed him quite dead
13. Their faces were dotted with red pinch marks, and their clothes riddled with holes where the chickens had pecked at them
14. " She pecked her unresisting parents on the cheek and they followed her to the door like lost sheep
15. Returned birds pecked at seed on the floor of the aviary
16. Before I could answer she ruffled her hand through my bristles, pecked me on the cheek and shut herself in her room
17. After they had fed the lonely seagull it came up to Jezzabell and pecked her dull black shoes
18. The seagull then pecked at Daniels foot and gave a huge yawn at Slinks
19. pecked the chubby finger and the hand went out
20. “If you could climb up and take one small bite, it would look as if a bird had pecked it,” she said
21. He pecked me on the lips
22. I pecked her lips once, not wanting Nathan to see our PDA
23. He raised his body and then pecked my lips before pulling himself off me
24. Aidan smiled and pecked my lips
25. I pecked her lips twice before I ended our kiss
26. He grinned and then pecked my lips, our first PDA in front of his colleagues
27. Lily pecked my lips and leaned away before I could deepen the kiss
28. Pon held her again and pecked her on the cheek
29. They couldn’t recognize him immediately, the roosters had pecked out his eyes, ruining his cheeks and lips, all a mess
30. Fearing that wasn"t enough I pecked her on the lips and told her that I loved her ever so deeply
31. The words just came to him and he pecked them out onto the paper
32. 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
33. Marie pecked him lightly on the temple
34. “Sure,” she said and pecked him on the cheek
35. I then pecked at the ground and began to gather twigs
36. There was a wide-eyed pause, then he pecked his nose in the direction of the flapper on the opposite side of the circle
37. Saffyre threw up her hands to protect her face as they pecked viciously at her
38. Who pecked out his eyes as they grew
39. Rhone melted as her moist lips pecked at the side of his
40. pecked her cheek, and watched her as she walked slowly away
41. hugged and kissed lightly, and she pecked me on the cheek
42. ’ He said and pecked her on the chic, before sitting up on the kitchen cabinet
43. She passed him his keys and pecked him on the cheek
44. with their wings and pecked one another on the head
45. 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
46. He pecked her cheek and vanished
47. Moving down he pecked and kissed her savouring every essence of her body
48. ” I quickly pecked his cheek, then laced his fingers with mine
49. She practically pecked his father to death, until they separated
50. "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
1. 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?
2. 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
3. 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)
4. I was too afraid of those pecking hens and the pain of their sharp beaks
5. With her eyes wide from my quick offensive, she tried to counter attack, pecking at me wildly
6. He was quick, clawing and pecking at my shins
7. 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
8. He’d never used a credcom before, but soon worked out how to turn it on, his dirty fingers pecking at the screen
9. “Women still have the nesting instinct, and men and children still have the pecking order
10. Animals have a pecking order, but only a basic, instinctive ego
11. 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
12. 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
13. outside the shell would have been of little use to it, but pecking
14. had become the leader of the gang because that was the pecking
15. Concentrating intensely, Kami commanded that all the seagulls on the beach start pecking the aggressors
16. And then a flurry of other words and thoughts chopping, pecking at his blood
17. murmuring sounds, pecking at unseen things in the grass
18. Yeah, but I just got the picture of you with a roadrunner in your hair pecking at
19. The clucking reached an excited crescendo as the chickens surged forwards, pecking ravenously at the fallen grains
20. “Don’t you know there is a pecking order on this farm?”
21. He started pecking at the inside of the sack
22. The chickens flew at Dawes and Katya, driving them back with a furious frenzy of pecking and flapping
23. “That's much better,” he said, pecking her on the cheek and
24. 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
25. Those wise and brave men entrusted us with ensuring Homo sapiens never again became top of the pecking order
26. As for safety procedures, those are well down the financial pecking order
27. He sat and stared at a tiny wren sitting in his garden and pecking at the grass
28. Maybe plants don't like you pecking away at them either
29. 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
30. It was still scratching and pecking the floor when he was within its reach
31. "In the pecking order of things,
32. He was a friendly sort of fellow, grinning at me and then gently pecking me between the ears
33. Chickens in the wild live according to a pecking order
34. 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
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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
39. Blake started off by pecking her on the cheek
40. A swarm of seagulls swooped in and started pecking at the stray pizza slice
41. bottom of the pecking order were ignored or insulted
42. It was a surprise that they’d stolen her shredded marmalade if she was that high up in the pecking order!
43. Now, a single card would decide the pecking or-
44. because he’d be pecking me on the head all day
45. because he'd be pecking me on the head all day
46. 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
47. me any hint of what the pecking order was
48. It had a sign reading PECKING GRAPPLER-BIRDS
49. Pecking Grappler-Birds swarmed out, quickly filling up the space of Subterranean Layer 53
50. It’s just that I—” Terminus fluttered over him, pecking Andrew on the head
1. Mohammed comes around to John’s side of the limo, pecks on the window
2. gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. The Pecks live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia where they continue to write
7. More than thirty gulls descended on the small group of little monsters, giving them strong pecks with their beaks
8. Howard?” I laughed playing with the little bit of chest hair that was on his hard as rock pecks and abs
9. They started with small pecks at first and before long they were rapidly probing each others mouths with their tongues
10. She wondered if these little pecks would ever stop thrilling her
11. 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
12. He pecks you hesitantly on your
13. And while I'm dumbfounded with shock, he leans forward and pecks me on the lips
14. Risking a few pecks on her mouth just for the smile I would receive
15. JUST AS HE REACHES HER AND PECKS HIM ON THE CHEEK
16. 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
17. 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
18. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering little pecks on the bark
19. "D'ye mark him, Flask?" whispered Stubb; "the chick that's in him pecks the shell