| Now, a raven can pulverize an unshelled peanut in two or three large pecks. |
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| America is now the last major power to retain feet and gallons and bushels and pecks. |
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| Ratios of pecks per pace were calculated to estimate foraging rate at the time and place of observation. |
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| They eat dinner on trays in the living room, where their daughter pecks away at a homework assignment on an aged computer. |
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| Leaning in slowly, he pecks me on the cheek and says goodbye before walking out the door. |
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| Peck rates were recorded by counting the number of pecks during a period of continuous head-down posture, which was timed with a stopwatch. |
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| I could see every muscle in his body, his pecks, his six-pack, his biceps, all perfectly sculpted like marble. |
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| The mother bird started to peck at me, but I dodged all the pecks and hit her beak with my mace. |
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| The ephah was a dry measure, and the bath a liquid measure, containing about seven gallons, four pints, or three pecks, three pints. |
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| The cassowary pecks the ground, gobbling fat worms with quick chops of its beak. |
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| This act of self-vulning, in which the female pelican pecks blood from her chest to feed her young, symbolizes Christ feeding the faithful. |
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| That's why starting with the slo-mo pecks and working up to a bigger kiss is key. |
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| The pigeon presented is a symbol of peace, but it does fight its opponents to death and pecks out their eyes. |
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| They are, like hens, too busy observing the pecking order in which each bird is pecked by those above her and pecks those below. |
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| The foraging bird runs a few steps, pauses with head cocked, then pecks at possible prey or runs again. |
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| In midwinter it can subsist entirely on clover leaves and spends 95 percent of the day collecting the leaf fragments at 60 100 pecks per minute. |
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| They can be supremely wily, as when one rolls an egg off the table to smash it on the ground, then pecks at the white and yolk! |
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| The MANUALplus drills and pecks individual holes on the end face and lateral surface. |
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| Bird pecks are a natural characteristic in all the elm species and are not considered a defect. |
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| Our Red Viking starts an animated conversation with the bird, but after an highly pitched word she attacked him with a series of pecks. |
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| It was an outdoor picnic then, with pecks and bushels dispatched at sawhorse tables. |
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| Apparently the crow pecks a small hole in the toad to get at the liver. |
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| Nestlings use this beak hook in lunging pecks and bites to the backs and heads of their siblings that result in scratches, bruises, and skin lesions. |
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| Such injuries may be caused by bird pecks, insect damage, mechanical abrasion, or by tightly compressed berries which burst when the vine takes up water after rainfall. |
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| But today, the little bird pecks on this improvised table. |
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| The etymology is more likely that the order is maintained by each bird pecks subordinate birds and submits to being pecked by dominant birds., and the order determines more than who gets to eat first. |
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| Other times, though, the pigeon had to tap a tiresome 20 pecks before the light turned green and the grain was delivered. The pigeons soon learnt that the red button meant one thing and the green quite another. |
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| Which dry measure contains four pecks or eight gallons or thirty-two quarts? |
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| A U. S. level bushel is made up of 4 pecks, or 32 dry quarts. |
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| In a normal classical conditioning experiment, where the illumination of a small light regularly precedes the delivery of food, the pigeon will rapidly learn to approach and direct pecks at the light. |
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| In Ireland the crannock is used instead of the quarter. It is, however, plainly identical with it, being divided into the same number of bushels and pecks. |
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| The Pecks forged a close bond with the reclusive author after a trip to her home in Monroeville, Ala., and her visit to the set. |
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