In such cases green food and mortar rubbish should be supplied, exercise allowed, the injured fowl should be removed to a separate place, and the pecked parts rubbed over with sulphur ointment.
In his terror he got right under the hen's wings, and she sheltered him, and pecked at the dog's eyes, and kept him off till help came.
They were very happy little creatures, and chased each other about the room, and flew on Miss Laura's head, and pecked saucily at her face as she sat sewing and watching them.
The cock ate the wheat, pecked the hen, and pushed her off the table to the floor.
The cock pigeonpecked at the hen and pushed her off the table.
I was that morsel of flesh pecked to pieces on a tomb by a flight of crows.
To the same crumb, perhaps pecked at at once by the beaks of evil and good, one gave the bite, the other the kiss.
Gradually the summer passed by; the migrating birds had flown away, the song of larks was no longer in the air; only in front of the barns, where they pecked at the grain in thrashing time, one could hear some of them scream as they flew away.
They ate greedily the chopped egg, and pecked at the sponge cake and apple.
It was pecked all over by voracious little beaks, and was quite thin in places.
And she pressed against the wire netting of her pen and stuck her head through it as far as she could, as if she would have pecked Henrietta had she been able to.
She pecked at the cabbage in an absent-minded fashion, pretending that it was no treat to her.
Really, she had never felt quite so important before--not even when her first brood pecked their way out of their shells.
But they flew at and peckedhim all down the elm-tree.
The old hen resisted, and pecked furiously at Gardener's legs, and the chickens ran about in frantic terror, chirping wildly in answer to her clucking.
The Hen-Pecked Husband ¶ Whenever you see a hen-pecked husband look at his wife.
The countryman spat into the ditch and stared solemnly in reply, and the gray fowl, still craning its neck, pecked steadily at the leaves upon the stones.
On examining it I found many a little bare stalk where buds had been, which suggests that they had been eaten and not merely pecked at.
They climbed the perpendicular or overhanging trunk with ease and swiftness, clinging to the roughnesses of the bark, at which they pecked from time to time, I imagine for insects.
Miss Deemas strode up to Miss Tippet, and pecked her on the right cheek, much as an eagle might peck a tender rabbit, which it could slay and devour if it chose, but which it preferred to spare for a time.
Going up to Miss Tippet, she put a hand on each of her shoulders, and stooping down, pecked her, so to speak, on each cheek.
Miss Deemas, pecking a piece of cake out of her fingers as she would, metaphorically of course, have pecked the eyes out of the head of Frank Willders, or any other man.
At this moment a Martin stopped to rest on a bare twig of the apple-tree which grew close to the house and almost touched it; and at once fell to ruffling up its feathers, and pecked at them with great energy.
The Canary sat still and frightened on his perch, and for a full hour neither sang a note nor pecked a seed.
Thistles, charlock, all sorts of tall plants grew there, on which we perched and hung, and pecked the delicious seeds.
The roses tumbled to the ground; Adolfo did not glance at his fallen blossoms, but Carlos, stalking forward, pecked at the finest ones.
He will not take anything except from me," answered Garda; she gathered a rose, and stood holding it by the stem while Carlos Mateo pecked gravely at the petals.
Many of the crows settled about the window, making a dismal cawing; but one of them alighted upon the bed where Cicero lay covered up, and with its bill by little and little pecked off the clothes from his face.
But Sam pecked a grain of corn out of my mouth this mornin' and never teched a tooth.
She drew him down and kissed his cheek, while he pecked at her lips.
She drew him down and kissed his cheek while he pecked at her lips Piggy Pennington .
Illustration: She drew him down and kissed his cheek while he pecked at her lips.
One of them, during a long day in camp, grew so tame that it pecked crumbs off the toe of my moccasin, and in another day or two would, one feels sure, have eaten out of the hand.
On this journey more than once they alighted on a moving sled and pecked at the dried fish that happened to be exposed.
Then Baijal went back and told his brothers-in-law that the peacock had peckedtheir hound to death.
You pecked a piece of sedge thinking it was a frog's leg!
But the nilkanth bird peckedandpecked at the jackal's tail until it not only pecked itself loose but hurt the tail so much that it became festered and swollen.
Whenever the crow saw anyone coming, it gave warning to the crocodile, and the crocodile then seized the traveller as he entered the river, while the crow pecked out his eyes.
He showed no fear of the Scrapper and never got out of his way as the others did, but it was noticed that the Scrapper never tried to take the white squab’s food away, nor ever pecked at him to make him get out of his path.
He did not have a very fair chance with the other stronger pigeons, for they crowded him out of the way, and even pecked him when he attempted to seize upon a piece of bread.
Then he sat down before his typewriter, on which he pecked methodically with the rigid forefinger of his right hand.
Nevertheless he sat him down to his typewriter, and with one rigid forefinger, pecked out such a request.
I didn't go ter do it, suh, but he pecked on me an' pecked on me twel I didn't have the sense I was born with.
The cage door stood open and the wires were bent out, showing where his powerful bill had pecked until he gained his freedom.
She put them in the cage with the owl and he pecked at them hungrily.
New life came with this gain, and he pecked away, till just before the sun went down he had made a hole that his head, his neck, and his ever-beautiful ruffs could pass.
Redruff had pecked and pecked at the under side all day, till his head ached and his bill was wearing blunt, but when the sun went down he seemed as far as ever from escape.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pecked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
