The jewel I have myself beheld three times stained, as it were, with the blood of my fellow man, so that it now has so little value in my sight that I would not give a peppercorn to possess it.
"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates"
Howard I. Pyle
And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Filfla, from the Arabic word filfel, means a peppercorn, and the place is thus called on account of its diminutive size.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou