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The concept is good, but I simply use the portable PStart ([www. pegtop.net]) app to do the same thing, and assign shortcut keys to apps as I want them, in a much cleaner interface.
Keyboard Tweaker Manages Your Keyboard Shortcuts | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I tend to go in to scan the bookshelves or to rummage for pegtop high-waisted trousers discarded by retired colonels (I've never found any, and if I ever did they wouldn't fit me without an unseemly struggle).
Bamboo & China Doves Peter Ashley 2007
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I tend to go in to scan the bookshelves or to rummage for pegtop high-waisted trousers discarded by retired colonels (I've never found any, and if I ever did they wouldn't fit me without an unseemly struggle).
Archive 2007-11-01 Peter Ashley 2007
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How often have I seen him, intent upon a match at marbles or pegtop, looking on with a face of unutterable interest, and hardly breathing at the critical times!
David Copperfield 2007
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At the thicker end of these saplings he fastened, by a piece of fishing line, a small cross – bar, which swung loosely, like the stick handle which a schoolboy fastens to the string of his pegtop.
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Well observed and those pannier pockets of the skirt and slightly pegtop effect are devised to suggest bunchiness of hip.
Ulysses 2003
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She gave a pat, more approbation than correction, to a rose on the bonnet, smoothed the lapels of her Alexandra jacket -- so-called after the newly-made Princess of Wales -- and pulled up her gloves under its pegtop sleeves.
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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What, after all, as a topic of conversation, was Loveday's ill-gotten gaud compared with the thrill of the new Alexandra jacket with its pegtop sleeves?
The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse
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In section, the shape is substantially that of a pegtop with a flat "table" top and a small flat base.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin
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Mossoo, the French master at Greyfriars, is the usual comic-paper Frog, with pointed beard, pegtop trousers, etc.
Boys' Weeklies 1940
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