16 collocations for pegging

It is quite useless to attempt to keep the map as it was, and peg out claims within the Empire where we shall proclaim that Arabs and Greeks and Armenians shall live in peace, for it is exactly that plan which has formed a century's failure.

It is increased by pegging down the lower branches, which soon become rooted.

Having gotten the dinner under way, the bo'sun set about preparing our camp for the night, which we did by making a rough framework with the reeds, over which we spread the boat's sails and the cover, pegging the canvas down with tough splinters of the reed.

Goa's NT, which took only a couple of hours less to reach Margao, could not be expected to travel beyond its borders on mass circulation basis till WCT arrived, NT was in fact believed to have pegged its circulation (to avoid re-classification to a higher bracket, which implied higher minimum wages to staff and workers!)

"Gee! why didn't you peg that gobbler?" broke out Romer, breathlessly.

The technical restrictions he laboured under were incredibly great; his vocabulary was cribbed, his versification was cabined, his whole power of dramatic movement was scrupulously confined; conventional rules of every conceivable denomination hurried out to restrain his genius, with the alacrity of Lilliputians pegging down a Gulliver; wherever he turned he was met by a hiatus or a pitfall, a blind-alley or a mot bas.

" As they all pegged dismally homeward, the half-dozen thought that Mr. Mitchell had also just about cured six Volunteers.

"I peg your bardonI mean I beg your pardon!"

In order to form a fair idea of my appearance, one must imagine a youth with a six weeks' growth of hair and beard, a shirt that had to be taken off once a week to wash, a black band around his waist, to which was stitched and pegged parts of flour sacks.

Meanwhile Campbell informed me that the big crack was 30 feet across: it was evident we must get past it on the glacier, and I asked Campbell to peg out a road clear of cracks.

They may be multiplied to any extent by pegging down the side-shoots in April.

Many a time I seen him drivin' home the sheep, an' he'd have his heart scalded wid them runnin' this way an' that, an' he'd niver offer to rise a stick to them, or so much as to peg a stone at them.

"If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty intrails.

" "Oh, don't pard my begonerthat is, begon my pardno, I mean peg my bardon!

See how many different ways of ascending a vertical pole these boys are devising!one climbs with hands and legs, another with hands only, another is crawling up on all-fours in Feegee fashion, while another is pegging his way up by inserting pegs in holes a foot apart,you will see him sway and tremble a bit, before he reaches the ceiling.

"I peg your bardonI mean I beg your pardon!"

16 collocations for  pegging