In their eyes they are at the top of any pecking order.

So you're right at the head of the pecking order?

Children from schools, areas, parents low in the pecking order.

But their eyes are set on the very top of higher education's pecking order.

A family name alone was enough to place someone in the pecking order.

There was clearly a pecking order about who sat where.

Status What people really seem to want most is a better place in the pecking order.

His answer told them clearly what the pecking order would be: mother first.

By evening's end, the pecking order will have been stood on its head.

As a result, he is at the bottom of the school's social pecking order.

To find the center of power, get close to it, and work your way up In the pecking order.

After people have determined their pecking order, they line up.

Certainly I'm too far down the pecking order to be any sort of threat to him.

If you are low down in the pecking order like we were though, forget it.

Our players have to recognize that the team has a pecking order.

Existing staff, on the other hand, are well down the pecking order and must share out what's left.

Whoever she was being taken to see, they weren't low down the pecking order.

It is this pecking order that gives them a special place in society.

It is as though each man must have his turn against the fellow below him in the pecking order.

I guess that proved where she stood in the pecking order of things.

The city was completely hung up on its own pecking order.

Put 10 people in a room and a pecking order soon emerges.

"And you don't have to worry about status or pecking order."

Often, that meant no more than some light pecking and heavy conversation.

Nature's pecking order, it existed in every form of life.

He would run up to me and peck out of my hand.

The white guy and the black kids watched the women peck their way along the street.

They peck at each other and aim for the eyes.

They started pecking one another and it was a job to get them stopped.

A second chicken can peck all the others except the first, and so on.

He used to peck at his food as a child."

They may sometimes peck at their own reflections during this time.

Soon the birds would peck at the dead thing in the tree.

Her thin face looked ready to peck him as she said "If your paper has anything to do with it."

I felt him peck the side of my neck with his lips.

The others peck at the stains until there's real blood.

The moral of all this is to keep pecking away at your personal computer.

He pecked me once when I was little, and it hurt a lot.

Even though he was dead, it still wanted to peck out his eyes."

Instead of saying so, she pecked him on the cheek.

Park officials worry about children getting pecked by the male if they get too close.

So, there are chickens pecking their way into my most recent work.

She looked down and pecked a few more times at her keyboard.

Ever since the Tunnel, he had simply pecked at his food.

I pecked her on the cheek, and turned out the light.

She went to peck him on the cheek and got his lips.

I'd get behind in the count and they'd peck at the corners.

"It's the kind of thing you have to keep pecking away at or they never adopt them."

At last Miriam let the bird peck from her hand.

He began to kiss back, at first with just little pecks.

Jimmy finally took me and we moved out to where the water was up to our pecks.

He used a record of lever presses or key pecks.

The man kissed up the woman's chest in small pecks until he reached her neck.

After a half minute of love pecks, I told her, "kiss it all over."

And the kisses they gave were no mere pecks on the cheeks.

He gave her a hug and they exchanged pecks on the cheek.

Even now we feed the horses but seven pecks of the eight they need."

Just enough shots to get my pecks in shape.

They'd hugged many times before, giving friendly pecks on the cheek as they came and went.

The Pecks were flattered, and asked him if he was from an architectural magazine or what.

Pecks of them must have been devoured in Carlisle that summer.

But on weekdays, the Pecks live in the 90's.

Several sharp pecks with his beak loosened the red one.

The Pecks have sued the school for religious discrimination and denial of free speech.

The schedules of reinforcement arranged for pecks on the two keys can be different.

Once again life became a succession of swan pecks.

I rolled him over, and Sue immediately started massaging his pecks.

In direct attacks of young birds pecks are directed at the eye patch.

The birds were rewarded for pecks at a picture showing a moth.

If a smith make a copper box, his wages are one hundred pecks of barley.

The kids gave me quick pecks on the cheek before racing off to chase frogs.

No meeting of the lips, chaste pecks on the cheeks, or air kisses.

At this time, adherents were also expected to donate the five pecks of rice that gives the movement its name.

This was nothing like the quick pecks and almost apologetic exchanges she'd experienced with Carl.