...What was more important, the shell-fish on which I lived grew there in great plenty; when the tide was out I could gather a peck at a time: and this was doubtless a convenience... 
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...“A peck of them will completely satisfy me, my boy...
Harry Collingwood 「The Adventures of Dick Maitland」
... Lewis Peck was a man six feet high, and of the darkest hue...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...So he tuk a peck er 'taters en went downter her cabin one night...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The Conjure Woman」
...The food he allowed them per week, was one peck of cornfor each grown person, one pound of pork, and sometimes a quart ofmolasses...
Henry Bibb 「Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself」
...The first sweet potatoes marketed always brought a dollar a peck, or four dollars a bushel...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...The five kind gentlemen, to whom I was so deeply indebted for the loan, were: Everard Peck, George A...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...()If two occupied nests within reach of one anotherthey would stretch out their necks and peck ateach other...
George Murray Levick 「Antarctic Penguins」
...She might taketo him kindly, or, as often happened, peck himfuriously...
George Murray Levick 「Antarctic Penguins」
...But the merry lark said, "No, no, gray, greedy hawk, no, no! Youpecked at the little linnet, but you shall not peck at me...
Lenore Elizabeth Mulets 「Stories 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]」
... Always on leaving he gave her a tender little peck and ran hisbeak the length of her wing—a characteristic caress that he delightedto bestow on her...
Gene Stratton-Porter 「The Song of the Cardinal」
...Chickadees and woodpeckerswould alight upon the meat and peck it swingingin the wind, but the crows were fearful...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
...For the biggest bird of the group had suddenly seemed to take umbrage at the appearance of the stranger, and stalking straight up to it darted its head sharply, evidently giving a vicious peck...
George Manville Fenn 「Off to the Wilds」
...Occasionally a small mass ofgumbo, never so much as a peck, sometimes as small as a pint measure,would be found loose in the ashes, seemingly thrown there at random...
Gerard Fowke 「Archeological Investigations」
...We put in a peck at a time, in a dozen places...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
..."Oh, it couldn't have been Peck," insisted Mrs...
Victor Rousseau 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930」
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