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  • Slander! peggin is secretly married to a horse! deire once took badgermirlacca into a changing room for some "fun"! tanaise and chibiaingeal took twenty minutes to decide what to tell the paramedics and the RSPCA. windrose and neadods secretly peed in scarlettina's cornflakes. marinarusalka and girasole do things behind koimistress's back that are illegal in most of the world. aynjel read msdori's diary, but fell asleep 'cause it was so boring!

    slander! suricattus 2005

  • Elkanah, soberly, looking the old fellow in the face, -- "goin 'down to the Banks year arter year in cold an' fish-gurry, an 'peggin' away all winter, like mad.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

  • Or would the sample be tainted (especially from the alcohol). peggin and I were wondering (don't ask, we have some straaaaange conversations).

    odd question suricattus 2006

  • Welcomes to newcomers joyslin, peggin (!!!) and msagara!

    June 24th, 2004 suricattus 2004

  • I'd like to tell you how I enjoyed the talk -- but I don't use that kind of language; anyhow I'll lay a small peece of change that this bird knew less about what he was trying to talk about than you could drive into a turkey gobbler with a peggin 'awl.

    Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie Barney Stone

  • She then brought forth a peggin of milk and a cake of barley-bread.

    The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales Edmund Leamy

  • "And who wouldn't give welcome on a night like this?" said the huntsman's wife, coming forward with a peggin of milk and a barley cake in her hand, "and sorry we are we have not better fare to offer you."

    The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales Edmund Leamy

  • But Dow in his well kept a peggin 'in his usual ridikilous way.

    Dow's Flat 1912

  • Well, about a month ago two fellows called Bowen was riding along a bush track between Winfield an 'their camp when they came across one o' the ol 'mates peggin' along the track for all he was worth.

    A Little Bush Maid 1910

  • "It's not sore -- not after peggin 'a bushel of potatoes on a cold day?"

    The Young Pitcher Zane Grey 1905

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