Pegs

I spent my whole childhood being told by my mother that I was from Romany stock I don’t think those were her exact words – but she said Romany – I have never tried to sell pegs from a trailer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the pegs were his hat and coat; he took them and passed into the street. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Ten Mile Bank: Again, another venue affected by ice and pegs, which is becoming very slippery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I agree with everything you said. we have a worldwide structural problem and the pegs are a big part of it. this is why I foresee us going more like Argentina compared to Japan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My '74 sportster and' 60 Duo Glide, essentially had 90 degree foot pegs, that is, the knee was at a right angle, which, for me, on the sporty sucked, and on the Panhead was perfect.

A search for my last name pegs my blog at number six while Google had it at number five. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"pegs" -- those vile concoctions of spirits, ice, and soda-water, which have destroyed so many splendid constitutions under the tropical sun. ❋ Unknown (1881)

China "pegs" their currency to the dollar so when the dollar drops the Yuan drops along with it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The pegs on these boards are used to mark, and thus remind, of key elements to be remembered, and Draper suggests that keywords which turn up in similar places and orders in various vice catalogues show that words could serve as memory "pegs" in a similar way. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

Now with candles inserted, which are the 'pegs' for the strings which an unstrung harp does not have ... ❋ Ceciliatan (2007)

But the contrivance, instead of being attended with good effects, led to greater excess; for those who formerly strove to avoid intoxication, were now, they thought, obliged to drink to the "pegs," it being understood that it was imperative to drain the vessel to the pin. ❋ James Grant (N/A)

Climate has a good deal to say to the craving for a stimulant, and men in India, who never drink in England, there consume "pegs" and cheroots enormously. ❋ Alfred Arthur Reade (N/A)

I accepted his invitation to whiskey "pegs" and subsequent dinner at his bungalow. ❋ Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves (N/A)

In fact it is only just to say that they have always lances and bullets for an enemy, and sandwiches and "pegs" for a friend. ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)

He, who rarely took an active part in the random, unedifying talk congenial to after-dinner "pegs" and cigars, had one night been moved to administer advice to a rapturous subaltern, in the shape of a few trenchant cynicisms in respect of women and marriage, bidding him not be fool enough to run his misguided head into the noose; and the subaltern had collapsed like a pricked air-ball. ❋ Maud Diver (1906)

He felt more like drinking half a dozen 'pegs' in succession. ❋ Maud Diver (1906)

Twenty years of active service in Upper India had seriously damaged that physiological function, and "pegs" no longer mellowed him. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)

Boulder Creek, they could trust one another, and were satisfied to leave their patches under the protection of their "pegs," more especially as things were becoming decidedly lively round what was already referred to as the "reward" claim. ❋ G. Firth Scott (1900)

'I qualified for dental treatment on the NHS to have them removed and preparatory work done on my gums to create' pegs 'for implants to be secured to, but then I went travelling to New ❋ Unknown (2010)