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Usage examples of perk.

At that very moment the water that was boiling in the coffee percolator made a loud perking sound.

With a whirring of strained servomotors, domed, rectangular, and humaniform heads swiveled, audio sensors perked up, and countless photoreceptors came into sharp focus.

At some point the percolator had started perking, so Cate put some sugar in one of the polystyrene cups and poured coffee over it.

The IT curve, the Propper Chair, and all the other little perks of the working life had lost their sheen.

She also had a little Baggie filled with twelve saltines, the perks of being a pregnant woman.

In a scaly hollow a crowd of naked Perks fled squealing from the echo of their bounding feet.

For a fleeting second, the thought of more tea did seem to perk Steyn up.

Somebody who was probably at a university or government lab because the salaries were lower than the new biotech companies were paying, and the somebody could be tempted by an astronomical salary and great perks.

A group of coffee-bar regulars, townsmen who stopped to sample her special blend and her cardamon or poppy-seed rolls before they went to play golf at Bogey Wells, arrived before the coffee finished perking.

On that road coppers rolled drunks for their small change and assured one another that bribes were just perks, and it got worse.

Peg Guester always says you got ears like a dog, perk up at everything.

He liked to say that living barefoot was a major perk of being a househusband, but Amanda had always suspected that he simply hated caging his feet, which were huge.

One could read, chalked on a slate: Rillettes du Morvan Fillet of veal with lentils Cheese Tarte maison The plump Magistrate perked up in this atmosphere, greedily sniffing the thick scent of food.

She woke to the bitter tang of black Colombian perking in the pot, the scent mingling with a buttery aroma of pancakes, the sizzle of bacon in its lake of fat, all lacing in their steamy collaboration to make a perfect moist morning And then she snapped awake, really awake-on the hard rover bunk, hugging herself in her thermoelectric blanket.

Disjunction seems of all expedients worst: If any stay, then stay should every man, Gather, inlace, and close up hip to hip, And perk and bristle hedgehog-like with spines!