Peg Quotes
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
Eileen Caddy (1992). “Footprints on the Path”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.8, Penguin
He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.143, Cambridge University Press
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
"The Big Sea: An Autobiography".
But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.
"How to Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2005.
You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.66, Univ of California Press
Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.221, Read Books Ltd
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.739, e-artnow
Canadian Pacific Railway Company, William Cornelius Van Horne “Van Horne Letter Book: Dec. 3rd, 1884-Feb. 3rd, 1885”
Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.145, Penguin
Winston Churchill (1955). “The World Crisis”
Sandra Tsing Loh (1996). “Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles”, Riverhead Books
c.1907 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.7.