Word: peck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Peccant Peck Sir: Apropos of the Catholic "venial kiss" discussion | Oct. 8]: one imagines countless exchanges like this on Irish lanes: "Gi! Said a me lad a to a venial lass, kiss." "To Hell wi' ye, son. I kiss mortal, like this...
...College. This amounted to about 30 pounds a year, mostly in fake wampum. More money came from gifts and, sometimes, from community subscriptions. But the chief source of revenue was the plain generosity of the people of New England. From 1644 to 1652 enough families contributed a peck of wheat or a shilling of money to support the entire teaching staff of the College, excluding the President, and to assist ten or twelve poor scholars...
Moby Dick. Captain Ahab harrows the oceans in his search for the great white whale; with Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Orson Welles (TIME, July...
...have no worries about the 'egghead vote,'" Peck stated, "but only about the regular people who sat on their hands four years age. And there is a question as to whether (University supporters) are the right people to cope with this problem...
Both Travers and Russell H. Peck, assistant Dean of the Law School, and one of the most prominent Stevenson supporters in the University, emphasized the need to reach the non-University Cambridge vote...