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Example sentences for "peaky"

Lexicographically close words:
peahens; peak; peaked; peaking; peaks; peal; pealed; pealing; peals; peanut
  1. Not a hair was visible on this shining, healthy-looking countenance till one arrived at the chin, from which depended a peaky little beard, cut very narrow and curling forward at the tip.

  2. His peaky little beard, and the way he carried himself, as well as the quickness of his movements, told one that.

  3. And there, right over yond' on the fur bank we could see the peaky tops of some army tents standin' in rows and we heared the notes of a bugle, soundin' mighty sweet and clear in that still air.

  4. He's a peaky little chap," he said to his wife.

  5. She was unremitting, too, in her efforts to recover the lost children, and began to look quite peaky about the face and lined round the mouth.

  6. The other, clad in a dirty russet suit with a long sweeping doublet, had a cunning, foxy face with keen, twinkling eyes and a peaky beard.

  7. After him came the pale, peaky face of Mr. Sutton, who looked chap-fallen and ashamed of himself.

  8. He raised his meagre figure to its full height, and his pale peaky face assumed a dignity which the pulpit had never known.

  9. Them peaky little clams a'most puts out all my shoulder-blades, and wunna bite through a twine of gristle.


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