859 examples of pegged in sentences

I was too pegged out to wash or fix, so I flung off my cowhides, jumped onto the bed and slept clean through till next day.

"You're thinkin' about the times I pegged outdidn't do my share.

The spectacle of a pair of pegged boots sticking out from under a bed, and a razor and a hone grouped on the mantle-shelf, is not such as I should desire to encourage in the dormitory of a pupil under my tuition.

A square, somewhat less than a mile each way, was pegged out with poles, and the Maghrabi astrologers, in whom Moizz reposed extravagant faith, consulted together to determine the auspicious moment for the opening ceremony.

Hundreds of hides were pegged to the ground.

"At last, I have got him: his skin will be pegged out to-morrow, drying before the tent door."

The front corner of one tent is not pegged down, but is thrown back to permit an opening into the tent.

Muskwa pegged valiantly after him.

" Then Remsen passed on to the next man and Joel pegged away, doing better and better, as he soon discovered, every try, until a whistle blew from the middle of the field and the players gathered about the captains on the fifty-five-yard line.

The way these limestone streams are netted is as follows: About two in the morning, when there is enough light to commence operations, a net is laid across the stream and pegged down at each end; the water is then beaten with long sticks both above and below the net.

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!)

Before they had been at Ahalala twenty-four hours they also had their tent and their frying-pan and their fire, and had pegged out their claim, and were ready to commence operations on the morrow.

I pegged away at it pretty steady, leading a lonely life and hoping every day that I'd cut my way down to a good lead.

The process is simple, it merely requiring a notch to be made in a branch of two or three years' growth, which is then pegged down 2 or 3 in.

long, firmly and deeply planted in a shady situation, mulched with leaf-mould, and kept watered in dry weather, will take root; but the surest method of propagation is by layers, pegged down in the soil and detached the following year.

They may also be used for bedding if planted thinly and kept pegged down; or may be grown in window-boxes.

It seeds freely, and roots rapidly by being pegged down.

Once a bonga haunted the house of a certain man and became such a nuisance that the man had him exorcised and safely pegged down to the ground; and they fenced in the place where the bonga lay with thorns and put a large stone on the top of him.

So when they had led him back and forth along the lines, they saw that the ends of his ropes were pegged down tightly.

It was formed of nine small poles pegged together, and measured ten feet in length by four in breadth; the greatest diameter of the largest pole was three inches.

They had their galleries, too, all tightly pegged to place.

Again the musketry opened behind us, and both sides pegged away for a while.

They have it pegged at 106, but there is an ugly rumour just in that Bob, under cover of a general attack, is unloading Anti-People's on to the Reinhart wing for Rogers and Rockefeller, and the rumour is getting in its work.

What happened was this: When the awful news came to-day of your aunt's death, you were naturally, and even creditably, excited, especially as the poor lady was killed by being pegged down on an ant-heap.

They were earthed up as for potatoes, and the strongest shoots were pegged down and partly covered with soil, though the latter proved unnecessary.

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