"Peg away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you will. I'm going to have Blair give you a bit of coaching in it next week. He'll have more time then, after he has finished with this golf business. Don't get discouraged. Peg away. It's worth the work, March, and you have the making of a good back as soon as you learn how to kick a goal and run a little faster. And whenever you're puzzled about anything come to me and we'll work it ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... Swiveller, 'when relations fall out and disagree. If the wing of friendship should never moult a feather, the wing of relationship should never be clipped, but be always expanded and serene. Why should a grandson and grandfather peg away at each other with mutual wiolence when all might be bliss and concord. Why not jine hands ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... instant, and then abruptly he laughed and released her work. "Bless your funny little heart!" he said. "Peg away, if you want to! It looks rather as if you're starting at the wrong end, but, being a woman, no doubt you ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... had such reason to know; "but it's too late, too late. I must just peg away here and not mind. I've after all a great ...
— The Tragic Muse • Henry James
... run any further," said the Irishman, after a hasty glance at the situation. "We are cotched as fairly as ever was a mouse in a trap, and it now remains for us to peg away, and go under doing the best we can. Have ...
— The Cave in the Mountain • Lieut. R. H. Jayne |
