Example Sentences

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It is said by my enemies, and they are many—and some of them are crackajacks, I admit—that I am a squealer, that I have peached on my pals.

From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Lawson, Thomas William

I should never have known you," Steel Spring whispered, "if you hadn't have peached about the toggles vot you vas going to vare.

From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by Champney, James Wells

It is true that he might have "peached" on the foreman, complained to the head-superintendent, and got them to test the walls with a testing-hammer.

From The Red Mouse by Osborne, William Hamilton

Don't you see he can never have peached?

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

He would have peached, Joey—have had me transported, to work in chains for the rest of my days, merely for taking a few pheasants.

From The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook by Marryat, Frederick