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  • The concept is good, but I simply use the portable PStart ([www. pegtop.net]) app to do the same thing, and assign shortcut keys to apps as I want them, in a much cleaner interface.

    Keyboard Tweaker Manages Your Keyboard Shortcuts | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • I tend to go in to scan the bookshelves or to rummage for pegtop high-waisted trousers discarded by retired colonels (I've never found any, and if I ever did they wouldn't fit me without an unseemly struggle).

    Bamboo & China Doves Peter Ashley 2007

  • I tend to go in to scan the bookshelves or to rummage for pegtop high-waisted trousers discarded by retired colonels (I've never found any, and if I ever did they wouldn't fit me without an unseemly struggle).

    Archive 2007-11-01 Peter Ashley 2007

  • How often have I seen him, intent upon a match at marbles or pegtop, looking on with a face of unutterable interest, and hardly breathing at the critical times!

    David Copperfield 2007

  • At the thicker end of these saplings he fastened, by a piece of fishing line, a small cross – bar, which swung loosely, like the stick handle which a schoolboy fastens to the string of his pegtop.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • Well observed and those pannier pockets of the skirt and slightly pegtop effect are devised to suggest bunchiness of hip.

    Ulysses 2003

  • She gave a pat, more approbation than correction, to a rose on the bonnet, smoothed the lapels of her Alexandra jacket -- so-called after the newly-made Princess of Wales -- and pulled up her gloves under its pegtop sleeves.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • What, after all, as a topic of conversation, was Loveday's ill-gotten gaud compared with the thrill of the new Alexandra jacket with its pegtop sleeves?

    The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse

  • In section, the shape is substantially that of a pegtop with a flat "table" top and a small flat base.

    The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin

  • Mossoo, the French master at Greyfriars, is the usual comic-paper Frog, with pointed beard, pegtop trousers, etc.

    Boys' Weeklies 1940

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