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Example sentences for "pesky"

Lexicographically close words:
pesce; pesche; pese; peseta; pesetas; peso; pesos; pessaries; pessary; pessimism
  1. Say, be you the pesky varmints that tore down my fence and scared my bull out'n two years' growth?

  2. Old Crabtree, "and you tore down my fence to git at a pesky bit of rock?

  3. But in ther meantime ther pesky coyote had gone and got himself killed in a quarrel over cards and so there they was up agains' a blank wall ag'in.

  4. Las' week tew pesky dod-ratted balloonists hit Hi Holler on ther head with a bag of sand, and now yew come along in thet thar contraption and try to bust up my dryin' roof.

  5. No use going there now, nor anywhere else, long as that pesky Frenchman's on the lookout.

  6. But we cannot for you kno The pesky moskeeto Our blood does take.

  7. I read a book last night, by a man named Buckle, about civilization and that sawt of thing, and the pesky thoughts stick to me like a nightmare.

  8. Right then, Mate, I made a vow to study the pesky things as they have seldom been attacked before--even though I never had much use for pictures in which you cannot tell the top side from the bottom, without a label.

  9. All because of a pesky microbe with a surplus of energy.

  10. One's etarnally thinkin' it's always July, it's so pesky hot.

  11. Yankee; "the pesky critter's on t'other side of the island afore this.

  12. I'll hist up this pesky mashine and set him on his legs, if he hain't damaged 'em.

  13. He heard that pesky Jay and circled around so as to get my scent.

  14. That Deer probably was lying down somewhere near here, and I might have had a shot but for that pesky Beaver.

  15. But one thing is certain, you must be got somewhere, and a little reconnoitring be done, before we try to go through or round the pesky place.

  16. It's pesky strange he should hang back in a woman affair so!

  17. As I listened to her swearing softly to herself because she couldn't read the pesky figures in the fading light, I realized that the voyage had begun in earnest and that very soon it would be night--my first night at sea!

  18. If he has a clear week to get thoroughly interested in his natural history again--marine stuff, his dream of seeing the floor of the ocean and all that--there may be some chance of his consenting to leave this pesky place.

  19. Wasn't he with the Injun as scalped Rufus Charlie and Pesky Bob?

  20. You see the pizen young skunk has been braggin' all over the section how he scalped Rufus Charley and Pesky Bob, them two fellers we buried down by Burntwood Creek.

  21. The pesky Sioux are still on the war-path, as I judge you'll have learned even in Great Britain, but they're in a fair way of being soundly whipped.

  22. Now if that pesky spy would show up we'd skip out for the prisoner.

  23. The pesky critters like to hang around here, looking for a nice calf that happens to stray away from its mammy's side.

  24. P'raps they got kicked out of their pesky old village.

  25. Yes, yer pesky brat come stumblin' into the kitchen when the bar was down, a-lookin' for ye.

  26. The pesky calf should be treated right, if it took the whole barrel.

  27. One o' them pesky barn doors got loose in the night, and it's beat itself 'most off the hinges, I guess.

  28. Give me one o' them pails, then, and we'll try ef we kin git through these pesky bushes.

  29. I'm so glad to learn you're not one of them pesky wreckers.

  30. I'll git out the duck gun, though land knows it ain't much use against a pesky swordfish!

  31. Yes, and with a pesky swordfish too close for comfort!

  32. No danger to the light, now that them pesky wreckers have been caught," remarked one of the fishermen.

  33. It's where that pesky swordfish rammed us, I reckon.

  34. The pesky fish is coming back at him again.

  35. She'd git out of the barn nights, and knock down fences, and tramp down flower gardens, and everybody said she wuz a pesky noosance.

  36. You needn't be so pesky smart with your tongue, Mandy.

  37. He said it was "pesky cruel," and seemed to prefer the more humane way of wounding them with shot, and breaking their necks afterward to end their sufferings.

  38. Wa'al, naow, it's pesky good to see yeu agin arter sech a long spell.

  39. But I lay most store on them ar pesky tree-tuds.

  40. Some does it with dunnamite; some does it with mules and swearin'--anything to root out the pesky things.

  41. Come vacation I'm goin' ter put the twins to scrapin' them pesky mossback shingles; then I may go with the tide and buy me a fancy tin roof.

  42. These pesky Indians ought to be wiped off the face of the earth.

  43. I was comin' down the road last month," he began, "and the pesky train half a mile away scared my mules nigh out of their wits.

  44. As he reached the door and fumbled with the latch, John and Ben heard a soft but rapid patter of feet and then his muttered exclamation: "Plague take those pesky wolves, howling at a man's door in the dead of night.

  45. Ain't I been all over the face of the earth tryin' to find a safe place to hide this pesky bag!

  46. I would if it warn't that I have to tinker with that pesky cream separator.

  47. It was long after dark when I reached camp and was greeted by my friend and guide with “Gol durn your pictur tenderfut, if it hain’t tuk you longer to get a pesky mess of yaller fish than it orter to kill a bar.

  48. Hewers of wood and drawers of water, the good Book calls them, and I'd like to know what else the pesky things are for.

  49. You mean in case we lose the pesky trail that seems so faint, we can keep going in the right direction all the same; is that it, Frank?

  50. It was that person, then, who hid the pesky old cup under the loose plank; that goes without saying, Frank!

  51. Amos an' I crack the walnuts,--they call 'em hickory nuts out in this pesky country of sagebrush and pasture land.

  52. We had tied up the colt in the cow shed and I wuz congratulatin' myself on bein' shet of the pesky critter when I heerd him nicker.


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