The pictures are formed bypecking away the weathered surface and exposing the lighter color of the basalt below.
Some designs were made by peckinggrooves in stone.
The material is a soft gray stone which shows the marks of the pecking by means of which it was shaped.
Near the middle of one side, and opposite it on the other side edge, there are signs of pecking which suggest an attempt at grooving.
The cylindrical surface has been formed by pecking except in one place where the natural surface shows.
Similar pebbles were used in the Thompson River region,[80] some of them having indications of pecking or a slight pecked depression in the middle of one or both sides.
Mr. Owen says such objects were used in pecking pestles, mortars, and similar implements into shape.
Spinden, bears two longitudinally pecked grooves in addition to pecking on much of its surface.
Pecking was also the process employed in forming the sculpture shown in Fig.
Near the same place, a party of the Protestants had been surprized sleeping by the Popish Irish, were it not for several wrens that just wakened them by dancing and pecking on the drums as the enemy were approaching.
She did it on purpose," I heard Miss Furness whisper; while the Fraulein nodded her head ever so many times, so that she looked like a bird pecking with a hooked beak.
They often spoil deer saddles by pecking into them near the kidneys.
Then he took a sword, but the hawk flew past him, and fixed on the back part of his head, tearing up his hair by the talons, and pecking over his forehead at his eyes.
Every five or six seconds a rifle cracked somewhere along the line--very different from the ceaseless pecking of Gallipoli.
Instantly the black iron-beaked crows flew down, took up the carcase, carried it to the mountain, and fell a-pecking at it.
He is not at all 'handsome is that handsome does--' pecking that dear little yellow chicken!
Happy for me will be the day when you see my enemy (if that day ever comes); the bird will warn you of his neighborhood by pecking your hand.
The red-headed woodpecker is fond of sitting on fence posts and telegraph poles; and both he and the flicker frequently alight on the roofs of barns and houses and gopecking and pattering over the shingles.
And all the time the bullets from no living man knows where kept pecking at them and pecking at them.
Is it possible," enquired the old lady in the manner of her pecking parrot, "that he does not wash his face?
These, however, are as a rule small, and wherever available the larger caverns have been appropriated and enlarged by stone implements, as shown by the pecking on the walls.
In the former, elongated slabs of stone, without pecking or dressing, were universal, while in the latter the squared stones were laid in courses and neatly fitted together.
The roof of the cave was the natural rock, and showed over its whole surface marks of a pecking implement.
It must have succeeded in pecking it, for the great lizard roared out with the pain; and rushing forward a bit, writhed and lashed the sand with his tail.
However this might be, they soon after saw something sticking in the side of one of the macaws, and could see the bird peckingat it with its great beak, and trying to pull it out.
After flapping him with their wings, and pecking him with their filthy beaks, and clawing him with their talons, the zamuros saw it was all to no purpose, and desisted.
For an instant one of the birds clung to the eaves and seemed to be pecking away at a bit of mud which was stuck to the eaves.
Thanks," said the bird, pecking away at the fruit.
Jack read in a book that you were fond of pecking at meat bones.
By this time the robin was on the ground, pecking away at the grain.
During all May and June I watched these birds pecking away at the rotten wood and throwing the bits out.
They generally used to engage in this work during the heat of the day; and, although I several times searched the hole, no eggs were found; the pair were not pecking at the decayed wood for insects, for I watched them through a glass.
Below in the meadow the cock had started crowing amid his flock of peacefully pecking pullets.
Then he stood and watched them washing their beaks and wings and splashing in the water, pecking at their troughs now full of seed and at their sugar and cheerfully hopping on and off their perches.
I had not seen a blue-jay for weeks, yet that very day one found my corn, and after that several came daily and partook of it, holding the kernels under their feet upon the limbs of the trees and pecking them vigorously.
They peep in curiously through the window upon me, pecking away at my bone, too often a very poor one.
Out in the sunny yard, some pigeons were pecking at grain, and a spaniel lay asleep in a corner.
I go out among the horses and cows, and stop to watch the hens pecking at their food.
Now it is a tiny footfall, a pat-pat upon the leaves, and a little brown bird is seen, hopping in and out among the undergrowth, scratching and pecking like a little hen among the leaf mould.
Bullets from the church were pecking up the dirt about him.
Jim Taylor caught up a child in his arms, and with bullets pecking up the dirt about him and zipping against the wall, he dodged behind a corner of the house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pecking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
