Thee doctor, who had been on the old apple tree trunk to peck at the trunk, examined the body, and when he heard the empty sound, it said that the trunk had been eaten by worms.
Deal with the question seriously, do not just peck at it.
In some of the grainy pictures, scrubby and deserted patches of creosote and mesquite sway in a gentle wind; in others, herons peck at fish in the shallow trickle of the Rio Grande.
The penalties ranged from pelting the students with pebbles to having his pet parrot peck at them.
The whole flock swirled down to her shoulders to peck at the apple.
The siskin is stretching out its neck to peck at the mantis, not knowing that a man carrying a slingshot is under it.
The budgerigar gave a quick peck at the seed.
The birds of night peck at the first stars.