Picked Sentence Examples
He picked up his coffee.
She picked a toy off the floor.
She stood and picked up the blanket.
She turned around and picked up the lines.
She grimaced as she picked up her fork.
He carefully picked up the box and Yancey followed him out to the car.
As soon as anyone entered she got up quickly, changed her position and expression, and picked up a book or some sewing, evidently waiting impatiently for the intruder to go.
In a state of deep depression, she stopped by the social services office on the way home and picked up some literature and a form.
She picked up her writing.
Noticing that the light was growing dim he picked up his nine piglets, patted each one lovingly on its fat little head, and placed them carefully in his inside pocket.
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In very few words Nicholas bought seventeen picked stallions for six thousand rubles--to serve, as he said, as samples of his remounts.
She started the coffee and picked up an empty pop bottle from the counter to discard in the trash.
In which case, he'd sure picked the right girl to hound.
He picked up the toys Destiny had been playing with and put them in the toy box.
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He picked up a piece of straw and leaned his back against the tree, picking his teeth.
The lackey picked her up and carted her to the garage, which served as a makeshift barracks filled with cots and sleeping men.
She sighed and picked up his hand, placing it on her head.
It was Sofi's whisper in his mind, a new trick she'd picked up from Darian.
AdvertisementShe picked up Sunny and sat on the couch, making herself at home.
Intercepts picked up a call Talon made to one of his guys who we know plans his recruitment fairs.
Darian picked up after the first ring.
She shoved the phone and her hands in her pockets to keep them warm as she picked her way through the littered alley.
The rain picked up again.
AdvertisementAlarmed, she picked her way through the rows of machines towards the door leading to the sparring mats.
I have a few places picked out already.
He picked up the telephone and handed it to her.
He stopped and picked up the object.
Dean instinctively sniffed the air for the smell of cordite but his nostrils picked up only the scent of alcohol.
But that's not why you picked me up, is it?
We marked the way out of the mine but then he showed us he'd picked up our markings.
When Alex came home for lunch, Carmen picked up Destiny and followed him to the barn.
He picked it up on the first ring.
That night she and Jonathan picked up Destiny and then headed home.
His own Guardians stayed out of arm's reach of him, and humans picked up and ran.
She picked up the box to toss it on the chair when something slid out.
She grabbed Traci's hand, and she picked her way through the death until she found the vamp she sought.
He dropped his arm, and she picked her way through the bodies, covering her mouth to keep from vomiting.
Then out of the blue came the call from a sticky-sweet state worker informing the Deans that Martha would be picked up on Saturday morning—this was Thursday—for the introductory reunion.
I don't know where Jake picked up Larkin, but he can send her back as far as I'm concerned.
Dean crossed to the bureau, picked up his hairbrush.
The state picked her up this morning.
It wasn't as nice as hers, and it reminded her of the fact that Alex had picked her car out for her.
That evening, when she picked Destiny and Jonathan up, Katie had an interesting perspective on the incident.
He picked up the phone.
He added, "I have no idea how she picked my inn."
He picked up his suitcase.
I've been picked over six years, but our family is known to be especially long lived.
Instantly the Princess turned and faced him, and when he saw that she was picked the Prince stood still and began to tremble.
All three got into the buggy and Zeb picked up the reins, though Jim needed no guidance of any sort.
He had picked up the scrap of a grenade that had killed an aide-de-camp standing near the commander-in-chief and had taken it to his commander.
On coming home, while his valets were still taking off his things, he picked up a book and began to read.
Sonya picked it up and read it.
To remember her gave him pleasure, and when his comrades, hearing of his adventure at Bogucharovo, rallied him on having gone to look for hay and having picked up one of the wealthiest heiresses in Russia, he grew angry.
Carmen was so exhausted that after Bill picked up Katie, she went to bed.
Lathum walked beside him to their patrol car and picked up a tablet.
Feeling a little hurt by his apparent disinterest, she picked up her plate and started cleaning up the camp.
She picked up her hat.
He picked up the reins and released the break, addressing her father and the twins.
Cynthia picked at her food, pushing it around the plate more than anything else.
I picked up a stone and attempted to skim it across the water.
The LeBlanc's had picked up Howie at his Boston apartment so the car was packed tightly.
We were picked up by Martha and arrived just as Quinn and who'd ferried Howie pulled in behind us.
Others picked up the chant.
I've picked up a couple of the metal symbols to add to my often-useful collection.
Brennan picked up his phone on the first ring.
A couple of vacationers picked her up walking along the beach near La Jolla.
Her boss picked Brenda at random.
Howie drove down and picked up his beloved, along with Molly O'Malley, her nine year old daughter.
Betsy might have picked it up on her daily internet search if Howie hadn't been out of action.
I picked up the phone as Betsy closed my office door and sat next to me.
I picked up the phone for my next chore as Betsy, with Molly in hand, peeked in my office.
Brennan asked as soon as I picked up.
I picked up the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen before sinking into my easy chair in the living room.
My frustration forced action of some sort so I picked up the phone and dialed Howie and Julie's room at the Four Seasons in Santa Barbara.
They've gone into hiding, I said this as soon as she picked up.
He picked up as Betsy came in the door.
The look of shock on Betsy's face was immediately picked up by Molly and frightened the young girl.
Killing time as I waited, I picked up a discarded newspaper on a vacated seat next to me.
Nervously, I dialed her cell and felt a flood of relief when she picked up.
It was presumed Howie was summoned there and picked up Grasso.
She picked at her finger and sucked on it.
Carmen picked up her pace, heading for the house.
She picked up three eggs and put them into the basket.
Logan picked up on the third ring.
He replaced it and picked up the ring.
Gabriel smashed into him, picked him up and threw him.
She had a cute hat she'd picked out and stuffed in one pocket of her backpack.
Oh, and I picked up someone else's soul last night, she said.
As usual, the phone rang until her voicemail picked up.
He picked up what looked like a medical file and became as still as the death dealer, as if forgetting her presence completely.
The Amazonian picked out a couple of T-shirts, her thick upper arms exposed in the tank top and jeans.
She looked at him, then at the silverware, and picked a fork she recognized.
She picked her way through the first few steps, startled when he launched himself at a tree, clawed his way up, and bypassed the muddy section by leaping to the next tree.
He picked her up and replaced her in the trunk, and then locked it.
She tapped the ear piece as the conversation around picked up but the words faded in and out of translation.
The translator was dead and picked up none of the men's terse discussion.
You picked a bad time!
Fred picked up an extra fork.
Dean picked up one of the letters, glanced at it, and put it down.
She picked up the letters.
Dean picked up the comb, pen and ink bottle and passed them to her as well.
Edith looked once more at her son and then picked up the garment and the comb.
Donnie had paid no attention to their conversation but having tired of his puzzle, picked up the notebook of letters and numbers and began to study it, turning the binder page by page.
Ryland picked up on it immediately.
Penny, who couldn't have weighted more than a hundred and ten, picked up the magazine.
He picked up a menacing looking tool.
He picked up the second page.
Cynthia asked out of politeness as Effie picked up a chocolate chip cookie with dainty fingers.
Dean just smiled and picked up the local newspaper.
Dean picked up the telephone and called Sheriff Weller.
Dean grabbed the paper, gave a glance to the parlor and picked up the portable phone.
He wasn't quite ready for sleep so he wandered back to the parlor, sat in the back corner and picked up a biking magazine.
He remembered the day, just before they first opened the bed and breakfast, when he'd picked up this Jeep, the first new vehicle he'd ever owned.
Most of the climbing gear was absent, presumably picked up by Weller at the ice park.
He could have picked up the knife from the table.
It must have been picked up by mistake.
Miracle of miracles, Cynthia picked up the phone on the first ring.
He sat at the table and picked up a piece of pastry.
He picked up her bags and followed the pair to the small room.
He picked up his pad and wrote, "Lost them."
Fred picked up a pair of children's cross country skies from an ad in the paper and the group spent a number of after school afternoons on Red Mountain utilizing the free trails at Ironton.
Dean picked up the hall phone, and resting the phone book on his lap began calling lodging establishments.
The old man picked at his red suspenders.
But he didn't display an iota of love toward her that I picked up on.
He was vindictive by nature and—this is the 'guess' part—he cut his line and left my knife which he'd picked up from his wife's room.
She reached over and picked up the translated pages of Annie Quincy's notebook and began reading aloud.
Before Connor had spat out the itch in bitch, Jackson was across the room and had picked him up by the throat.
Connor stared straight ahead for a moment, picked up his glass and drained it.
Jackson always picked some condescending nickname for her beaus.
Well if you must know, I picked up an attractive, slightly long in the tooth socialite, shopped for suits with her, brought her to the Roseville and yada, yada, yada.
She picked up the glass and held it up.
She picked out an outfit right down to the shoes.
She picked up a piece of sheet music from the stand and could see it required a far greater command of the piano than he was exhibiting.
Jackson picked her up by the throat and slammed her against a tree, "I should kill you where you stand, you filthy dog!"
He had picked up a Tantalus and was about to smash it on the floor.
Jackson picked up an apple from the bowl of fruit, tossed it in the air, caught it, then bit into it.
He picked her up, and crooked an eyebrow.
Elisabeth stared straight ahead, then picked up her cell phone and walked out of the kitchen.
Elisabeth picked up her knife and started carving again.
Jackson picked up the diamond and held it to the light.
She picked up the duvet from the bed and draped it on the sofa, then undressed.
After showering and dressing, Jackson picked up the wolf's head from the bed.
He picked her up over his shoulder, and carried her fireman style to the bedroom.
Loosening his tie, he dropped into the leather office chair and picked up the envelope.
He sat up straight and picked up the picture, whistling in admiration.
Retrieving the glass of grape sparkly, he picked up the picture and leaned back in the chair.
Alex sure picked a fine time to visit, didn't he?
I don't want him practicing on my hand picked stock.
Carmen picked up the towel and hung it on the rack.
Alex picked the coffeepot back up again and she realized he had intended to push her chair in for her.
She picked up a coffee cup and met his cold gaze.
She switched on the radio and picked up the broom.
She shut the stove door and picked up the kid.
He'd even taken her dancing once, and yesterday he picked her a mess of greens.
Bill picked Katie up a half hour ago.
So when Lori picked him up again Easter Sunday morning, Carmen said nothing - except a prayer that Josh wouldn't catch him.
Katie picked at her food.
Carmen made it to the telephone on the sixth ring, gasping for breath as she picked up the receiver.
The week seemed more like a month, but finally Alex arrived and she picked him up at the airport.
He picked Penny up and set her on the stanchion.
After he left, Alex picked up the picture and sat down in the plush office chair for the last time.
He picked her up and strode out of the tent and through the camp, ignoring the catcalls of the men around him.
Brady snorted and picked up her micro.
Regretfully resolved, he rose and fixed his uniform then picked up her belongings.
She picked up a handgun-sized laser weapon, set it down, and picked up a smaller one.
Lana picked her way through the forest and stopped at the edge, peering at her destination.
Randolph was the smallest of them, so she'd picked this town to cross the River rather than the larger ones south along the Mississippi.
He picked one up then looked down the tunnel.
When the helo circled the rocks, she began to suspect they'd picked up her transmission.
The angel looked up at him doubtfully then picked his way across roots to the pocket in the tree trunk. Rhyn scavenged for what dry wood he could find and took the armful back to the tree. Toby was huddled in the small cave, shaking with cold.
I told her to keep to the stream. The demon probably picked her up between here and the Lake.
Toby gasped as the branch picked him up then waited.
Deidre paused beside the bubbling nest of beetles the size of her hand. Katie watched as she picked up one, peered at it and then flung it. Deidre giggled.
I stood up, picked up my backpack, and walked to the car.
A breeze picked up at the shoreline, wrinkling the water as the waves slowly rolled toward him in silver lines.
Both drank their coffee black and although both took a doughnut, Mrs. Byrne simply picked at hers, lifting the tiniest of crumbs with dampened fingertips.
I gave him a general overview and he picked the times, unless something hot was cooking.
Dean smiled as he picked up the evening newspaper.
Dean picked it up and examined it.
No. It was just one of those unanswered details I picked up on and figured I'd ask.
At one point, the girl dropped her napkin and the boy reached beneath the table, picked it up, and replaced it daintily on her lap.
Dean returned to the table and conveyed the news as he picked up his coffee— no roll, no change.
On the spur of the moment he picked up the phone and dialed Cece Baldwin, a number he now had committed to memory from the many unsuccessful times he'd made the call.
Dean lifted her in his arms and slowly picked his way up the beach in the direction from which he'd come, half staggering through the soft sand.
He poured a cup of cold coffee from the pot and picked up Mrs. Lincoln in one arm, interrupting her licking the remains of a bowl of chocolate pudding.
Mrs. Lincoln sauntered into the room, blinking her eyes at the late hour, and Fred reached down and picked her up with one arm, taking a beer from Dean with the other.
Fred picked her up.
Dean picked up the magazine, glancing at it as he spoke.
If he's here, his information packet would have been picked up when he signed in.
He signed in and picked up his packet of information.
Fred, in a particularly kind mood, had not only picked up the gear but set up Dean's tent for him.
Dean picked up the pace and closed the gap on the yellowshirted rider, low on his bike to minimize the wind resistance as he raced downward at a dangerous speed.
Another added, You picked a pretty good spot to land, too.
We picked up their voices on our bug in your house but by the time we figured out what was going on, you were already there and we backed off.
We picked him up a few days after the Colombians did in his buddy Flanders, only we didn't let the world know about it.
When we got wind of what he was doing, we picked him up.
He picked out a motel room key.
Lori picked up a magazine, obviously trying to forget the history between Carmen and her husband.
Returning to the relative cool of the dairy, she picked up a broom.
He shook his head and picked up his cup.
Carmen sat down and picked up her cup, taking a sip before she spoke.
Gradually, the parents came in and picked up their babies until she was left with an 8-week-old little girl.
He picked up his sandwich.
In her room, Carmen picked up her cell phone.
She shopped responsibly, but this time she picked up healthy fresh fruit and vegetables – something she previously would have had to replace with canned food.
It wouldn't have occurred to her to check his pockets, but as she picked up his shirt, it crackled.
He sat down in his chair without assisting her and picked up the bowl of mashed potatoes.
She picked up her fork.
He must have picked up the lamb and left the clinic, which would explain why he wasn't there when she drove by.
She gingerly picked the grizzly trophy up from the barn floor and tossed it in the trash bucket.
He sat down opposite her and picked up his napkin.
As he picked up a knife and sliced the meat, he mused.
He leaned forward, picked up his fork and began devouring his supper without further comment.
She picked the receiver up on the fifth ring.
He strode back to his office and picked up the receiver.
If I know you, you already have something picked out.
She picked his plate up from the table.
He picked up a fork and lit into his lunch.
She picked at her food for a few minutes and then remembered the buffalo.
Princess picked Sunday to foal, and Carmen found her in heavy labor when they came home from church.
He picked up his luggage and strode across the room.
He slowly picked up his fork, never taking his eyes off of her.
He picked up the reins.
If the child picked up on her fear, it could cause him worse problems.
She leaned over and picked up the knitting bag.
Anxious to keep her mind off Josh, she picked up a magazine and sat on the couch.
Jenn's tension fled from her as she picked up the small child and hugged her close.
It sidled up to him and wound between his legs until he picked it up.
She picked up a pillow and two blankets, spreading one on the floor a foot from the window before plopping her pillow down.
Damian, Sofia, Adrian were written beneath it, and Darian grinned, wondering when Sofi had picked a name for her son.
She'd had dreams of Damian, Jule and Dusty being picked off one-by-one by the Wathers.
She picked up her cheeseburger, walked to the kitchen door, and leaned against the doorframe, watching Darian flip hamburgers on the stove.
His senses picked up more Watcher and Other activity than normal this morning.
Jenn picked herself up off the floor, sensing the swirling magics of her prison in the immortal world.
She picked up a rock and threw it into the center of the gateway.
He set the book down, picked it up, then replaced it.
He picked it up again, resisting the urge to throw it into the blazing hearth.
She picked up a book to read to them and rested her back against the wall.
Jonathan picked up his clothes and said goodnight before retiring to his room.
He picked up his coffee and met her gaze with a touch of humor.
He picked up his coffee cup and took a drink.
She waded to the bank and picked up her shoes and stockings.
There he sat in his chair and picked up the morning paper, dismissing the womenfolk.
She picked up a picture of Carmen & Alex and pointed to Alex.
I picked some yellow flowers to go in her hair, but she said they looked better in a vase.
He picked the pieces up and laid them on the counter in front of her.
Had he said something to his father about their issue, or had Senor Medena merely picked up on the tension between them?
She picked the book up and read the title.
They picked the children up at Katie's house and went straight home.
He stopped at a pile where they had picked them out of the trail.
Alex picked up a large flat rock and put it in the wheelbarrow.
She lifted it and carried it to the wheelbarrow while he picked up another one.
Megan picked up the candles and began methodically poking them in the cake.
It was in his eyes - in the way he picked up the pen and tried to find a reason to avoid her angry gaze.
The woman picked up a basket and started down an isle.
Then he leaned over and picked it up - something she had never seen anyone do before.
It would be nice to try some of the camp recipes she had picked up before leaving California, but the kitchen was hot enough without adding cooking heat.
She picked them up and studied the covers.
She stooped and picked it up, reading aloud.
She wiped her mouth with a paper towel and picked up her plate.
She shook her head and picked up her fork, stabbing it into the eggs.
Clara stood and picked up her purse.
Xander picked up on one of the Guardians from the local station moving towards the alley.
His sensitive ears picked up the sound of the television coming from the living room, but it wasn't this that woke him.
The animal wound its way through his legs until he picked it up.
She lifted it gently then picked up its bowls.
The whisper wasn't meant for his ears, but his enhanced hearing picked it up anyway.
His senses picked up six Guardians.
Xander's senses picked up nothing, but they wouldn't.
She picked up the tablet and set it on the counter.
The work cell rang, and she picked it up, answering instinctively.
When you feel like venting, call, Gerry said and picked up her cell.
She found herself admiring his body and forced her attention on reading one of the books she'd picked up during a trip to stretch her legs earlier.
Jenn picked up Jessi's phone as she spoke.
Jessi absently picked it up and placed it in a corner.
His senses picked up on the Guardians and Gods gathered in the red barn.
He gripped Ashley's throat and picked her up off the ground.
At odd hours of lessons she picked up a smattering of Latin, music and natural science, but most days were holidays and spent in country rambles and games with village children.
They were finally driven ashore on the island of Seriphus, where they were picked up by a fisherman named Dictys.
He is picked for his skill in playing to the jack.
He dissembled until such time as he could despatch his greatest general, the duke of Alva, to Brussels at the head of a picked force to crush all opposition.
The repair being thus completed, the various mark buoys are picked up, and the ship returns to her usual station.
Cables have frequently been picked up showing after many years of submergence no appreciable deterioration in this respect, while in other cases ends have been picked up which in the course of twelve years had been corroded to needle points, the result probably of metalliferous deposits in the locality.
Rolled pieces of amber, usually small but occasionally of very large size, may be picked up on the east coast of England, having probably been washed up from deposits under the North Sea.
He was shot in the leg, picked up by the English, and successfully treated, although he remained slightly lame.
The yellow maggots devour the seeds and thus ruin the crop. When deformed fruits are noticed they should be picked off and burned immediately.
Chantre in 1894 picked up lustreless ware, like that of Hissarlik, in central Phrygia and at Pteria, and the English archaeological expeditions, sent subsequently into north-western Anatolia, have never failed to bring back ceramic specimens of Aegean appearance from the valleys of the Rhyndacus, Sangarius and Halys.
It has been commonly thought that the production of cotton in the south is limited by the amount that can be picked, but this limit is evidently very remote.
The crop having been picked, it has to be prepared for purpose of manufacture.
When this has been accomplished the weight of the crop is reduced to about one-third, each 100 lb of seed cotton as picked yielding after ginning some 33 lb of lint and 66 lb of cotton seed.
The crop is picked, ginned and baled in the usual way, the Macarthy style action roller gins being almost exclusively employed.
If now the vertical movement of the walking-beam be 24 in., when 'it starts on the up-stroke the sinker-bar rises 4 in., and the cross-heads come together with a smart blow, then the auger-stem is picked up and lifted 20 in.
Breda was captured by surprise by the Spaniards in 1581; but in 1590 it fell again into the hands of Maurice of Nassau, 68 picked men contriving to get into the town concealed under the turf in a peat-boat.
The geographical ideas which prevailed at the time Columbus started in search of Cathay may be most readily gathered from two contemporary globes, the one known as the Laon globe because it was picked up in 1860 at a curiosity shop in that town, the other produced at Nuremberg in 1492 by Martin Behaim.1 The Laon globe is of copper gilt, and has a diameter of 170 mm.
The French who had thrown themselves into houses, copses, &c., picked off the officers, and the flanks of the long Prussian lines swayed and got into confusion.
Still the progress of the republican spirit in Brazil caused Dom Joao to send to Portugal for bodies of picked troops, which were stationed throughout the provincial capitals.
The knowledge of law shown in the plays is very much what a universal observer must have picked up. Lawyers always underestimate the legal knowledge of an intelligent layman.
He was victorious in the pitched battle fought at the foot of Ithome in the fifth year of his reign, a battle in which the Messenians, reinforced by the entire Arcadian levy and picked contingents from Argos and Sicyon, defeated the combined Spartan and Corinthian forces.
An accident prevented his sailing with his regiment to Brazil, and after a visit to Flanders, where an uncle offered to secure a commission for him, he went to England, picked up the language, and in 1752 became tutor in a Shropshire family.
The stigmas and a part of the style are carefully picked out, and the wet saffron is then scattered on sheets of paper to a depth of 2 or 3 in.; over this a cloth is laid, and next a board with a heavy weight.
According to Plutarch, he attempted to break the power of Corinth, by requesting the Corinthians to send him 1000 of their picked youths, ostensibly to aid him in war, his real intention being to put them to death; but the plot was revealed.
In high quality tobaccos the leaves are " primed " or picked singly as they ripen, but in the great bulk of American tobaccos the whole plant is cut close to the ground when the middle leaves are about ripe.
The picked leaves are usually either prepared for market by simple exposure to the sun for a few days, or in addition are sprinkled with groundnut oil and sometimes other materials also, which result in an increase of strength.
Sherman thereupon, leaving behind Thomas and Schofield to deal with Hood, made the celebrated "March to the Sea" from Atlanta to Savannah with 60,000 picked men.
His body was picked up three days afterwards, so disfigured that it was only recognized by the star on his coat.
This succeeded beyond Vauban's own expectation; the picked troops entrusted with the attack of an outwork forced their way into the town itself (March 17th).
After passing his leaving examination from a Realschule, young Stinnes was placed in an office at Coblentz where he speedily picked up the elements of a business training.
A strange visitor, the frost-fish, never seen at sea, is picked up stranded on sandy beaches in cold weather, and is prized by epicures.
Emboldened by this success, Selim issued an order that in future picked men should be taken annually from the Janissaries to serve in their ranks.
The quality of the army, thus composed of picked men (a point which is often forgotten), approximated to that of a professional force; but this policy had the result that, as there was no adequate second-line army, parts of the first-line had to be reserved, instead of being employed at the front.
Such skill as nurses possessed was picked up in the wards.
Finally he picked a quarrel with Denmark for not accepting as an ultimatum the terms to be submitted by Russia to a peace conference to meet at Berlin for the purpose of adjusting the differences between the two powers.
One of the younger scholars of the day was William Lilye, who picked up his Greek at Rhodes on his way to Palestine and became the first high-master of the school founded by Colet at St Paul's (1510).
Fifty thousand picked men were to march through Georgia with Sherman, and Thomas was to be reinforced by all other forces available.
But the "bummers" were no mere marauders, but picked men from the armies that had won Vicksburg and Chattanooga, and, though surrounded, held their ground stoutly and successfully.
At his birth Judas was enclosed in a chest and flung into the sea; picked up on a foreign shore, he was educated at the court until a murder committed in a moment of passion compelled his flight.
You picked it up?...
Willard picked up a toothpick and began working it.
He picked up the headphone-mic combo.
I picked it up in a garage sale, for two dollars—with a bike tire patch kit tossed in.
He picked up the telephone.
He picked it up, and in frustration, flung it as far as he could.
He claimed to have been picked up by Patsy Boyd while hitchhiking down state.
His attention returning to the lap desk, he picked up the pencil as if ready to write something - and then put it down.
Señor Medena pulled the pie closer and picked up the fork.
Carmen picked the children up from Grandma Reynolds' place so he could visit with them.
He strode to his office and picked up the telephone receiver of the land line.
The ghosts followed and picked up, or perhaps entered into the beans.
The solidified chloride is then broken up, the shots and fused masses of magnesium are picked out, run together in a plumbago crucible without flux, and poured into a suitable mould.
Those which are not required for the kitchen, if allowed to stand, and if the flower-bud is picked out on its first appearance, and the earth stirred about them, frequently produce bulbs equal in size and quality to the large ones that are imported from the Continent.
The swarthy figure and brilliant costume of the "Moor" when reproduced in wood and picked out in colours produced a very striking effect, and when a small table was supported on the head by the upraised hands the idea of passive service was suggested with completeness.
At Vienna, in 1702, he picked up the Scottish general George Benedict Ogilvie, and enlisted him in Peter's service.
Or, if hard, its surface can be picked all over with a bush hammer.
As the ship commenced to make stern way he blew the charges, and the crews got into two cutters which were picked up by the "Whirlwind" and a motor launch.
The destroyers had been lying off the harbour, and the "Warwick" now picked up four motor launches, including ML282 overloaded and full of wounded with 'or men of the "Iphigenia" and "Intrepid."
If there be any sour or sodden or effete soil into which the roots have not run, this should be carefully picked out with a pointed stick.
Later on in the season, perhaps small cauliflowers will be planted along the margins of the beds where the carrots are growing, and will be developing into larger plants requiring more space by the time all the carrots have been picked and marketed.
In 1631 a large Spanish fleet carrying a picked force of 6000 soldiers, for the invasion of Zeeland, was completely c destroyed by the Dutch in the Slaak and the troops made prisoners.
Used exactly as the better kind, and the picked skins are most effective.
The gendarmerie is a mounted force composed of men picked for their physique and divided into three divisions.
The chiefs and their followers that settled Iceland were "picked men," the flower of the land, and sought a new home from other motives than want or gain.
When the young scholar presented himself to the rulers of that society, they were amazed not more by his ungainly figure and eccentric manners than by the quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory but not unprofitable study.
The little advance I now have upon this store of education I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity."
The seed is sown at the end of February or beginning of March and the crop is picked in September and October.
The white and calcined bones were then picked out of the ashes by the friends and placed in a metallic urn, which was deposited in a hollow grave or cist and covered over with large well-fitting stones.
This material must be picked out, as such underburnt stuff contains free lime or unsaturated lime compounds.
It has been conjectured that the "estuary" here mentioned refers to the Baltic, the existence of which as a separate sea was unknown to all ancient geographers; but the obscure manner in which it is indicated, as well as the inaccuracy of the statements concerning the place from whence the amber was actually derived, both point to the sort of hearsay accounts which Pytheas might readily have picked up on the shores of the German Ocean, without proceeding farther than the mouth of the Ems, Weser or Elbe, which last is supposed by Ukert to have been the limit of his voyage in this direction.
An educated Greek, who knew something (as many at that time did) cf the Greek translation of the ancient Hebrew Scriptures, if he had picked up this letter before he had ever heard the name of Jesus Christ, would have been deeply interested in these opening words.
When thoroughly dried the shells are broken with a wooden mallet or flat board and the nutmegs picked out and sorted, the smaller and inferior ones being reserved for the expression of the fixed oil which they contain, and which forms the so-called oil of mace.
The authorities at Palermo, learning of a projected rising, attacked the convent of La Gangia, the headquarters of the rebels, and killed most of the inmates; but in the meanwhile Garibaldi, whose hesitation had been overcome, embarked on the 5th of May 1860, at Quarto, near Genoa, with l000 picked followers on board two steamers, and sailed for Sicily.
He picked a quarrel with Sextus, and when his colleagues failed to support him, undertook to attack him alone.
There we are told that for purposes of divination certain signs were scratched on slips of wood from a fruit-bearing tree (including, no doubt, the beech; cp. book, German Buck, and Buchstabe, a letter of the alphabet); the slips were thrown down promiscuously on a white cloth, whence the expert picked them up at random and by them interpreted fate.
Here H is for Hoffs, D for Drieband, P for picked, F for fine, S for superior, and R for Risten.
H „ Light and represents a rise of about £I P „ Picked £3 G „ Grey £3 S „ Superior £4 W „ White £4 Z „ Zins Each additional mark means a rise in the price, but it must be understood that it is quite possible for a quality denoted by two letters to be more valuable than one indicated by three or more, since every mark has not the same value.
He was promoted lieutenant-colonel 1780, and sent with a picked corps of dragoons to the southern theatre of war.
Less common and picked fruits are expensive, particularly so when cost of transport has to be considered; for instance, a good orange costs 2d.
There is a separate branch, the detective bureau, composed of picked men, charged with the investigation and, still more, the prevention of crime.
The consul may even defray the expenses of maintaining, and forwarding to their destination, passengers taken off or picked up from wrecked or injured vessels, if the master does not undertake to proceed in six weeks; these expenses becoming, in terms of the Passenger Acts 1855 and 1863, a debt due to His Majesty from the owner or charterer.
His social reforms included a redistribution of land, the remission of debts, the restoration of the old system of training (6,ycoy17) and the admission of picked perioeci into the citizen body.
According to one account, he distinguished himself by stopping the runaway horses of her carriage; according to another, he only picked up her handkerchief; a third and scandalous explanation of his fortune has been given.
During the lapse of years many of these stones were picked from their setting, and the silver ceiling of flowered patterns was pillaged by the Mahrattas; but the inlaid work was restored as far as possible by Lord Curzon.
When first built the dome was covered by gold leaf, and the outer walls were adorned with stucco work picked out in gold and blue, but to-day there are very few traces of this ornamentation.
This victory he owed mainly to the valour of the Sacred Band, a picked body of 300 infantry.
It was feared by some that Duke John might carry his ambitions so far as to, aim at the thronehe could do what he pleased with his doting father, and flaws might have been picked in the marriage of the Black Prince and his wife Joan of Kent, who were cousins, and therefore within the prohibited degrees.
There it was mercilessly picked to pieces by a select committee.
While apprenticed to a cabinet-maker he picked up a Chinese grammar written in Latin, and after mastering the latter tongue made such good progress with the former, that in 1846 James Legge engaged him to superintend the London Missionary Society's press at Shanghai.
While Tsountas, for the Greek Archaeological Society, picked up his work at Mycenae in 1886, and gradually cleared the Acropolis, with notable results, Schliemann tried for traces of the Caesareum at Alexandria, of the Palace of Minos at Knossos, in Crete, and of the Aphrodite temple at Cythera (1888); but he was not successful, meeting in the two former enterprises with a local opposition which his wealth was unable to bear down.
After some months of preparation, in which he was hampered by administrative confusion and want of resources, he took the field with a picked column, in which George Washington served as a volunteer officer, intended to attack Fort Duquesne (Pittsburg, Pa.).
By 1567 the revolt in the Netherlands was flagrant, and the duke of Alva was sent with a picked army, and at the expense of Spain.
John Bramborough, the English captain of Ploermel, having continued his ravages, in spite of a truce, in the district commanded by the captain of Josselin, Jean de Beaumanoir sent him a challenge, which resulted in a fight between thirty picked champions, knights and squires, on either side, which took place on the 25th of March 1351, near Ploermel.
Voltaire said that it was full of commonplaces, and that what was original was false or problematical; Rousseau declared that the very benevolence of the author gave the lie to his principles; Grimm thought that all the ideas in the book were borrowed from Diderot; according to Madame du Deffand, Helvetius had raised such a storm by saying openly what every one thought in secret; Madame de Graffigny averred that all the good things in the book had been picked up in her own salon.
It was formerly the practice to kill the otter with long spears, which the huntsmen carried; now the quarry is picked up and "tailed," or run into by the pack.
He admitted the difficulties of this enterprise, but thought that a force of picked French troops, aided by Persians and Afghans, might under favourable conditions penetrate into India by way of Kandahar, or through Sind, especially if the British were distracted by maritime attacks from Mauritius.
Carmen picked up Destiny and followed Felipa out the door.
She made no fuss when Maria picked her up and took her to their room.
Pulling the covers over him, she picked up his clothes and laid them on a chair.
Carmen picked up Destiny and hugged her tight.
Bordeaux picked up the plates and started scrapping the bones into a pile.
She picked up her plate and scraped the food into a scrap bowl for the cat.
He picked up a magazine to show his disdain for our childishness.
I picked up a Chinese takeout of General Tao's Chicken, enough for his oriental army, and trudged up to my lonely apartment.
As the call had progressed, the others picked up on the substance from my side of the conversation.
Betsy picked up a case of a body dump in Illinois and, as it was a slow day, we tried to bracket the unknown time of the corpse's disposal.
As soon as I'd picked up the fare and set it down in our cell, the door slammed behind me and the latch was dropped.
Desperate to try anything, I picked up the black composition book.
What about the kid you picked up at the last flash-n-burn?
She picked up her book and walked past the female Guardian, who watched her go, puzzled.
The Black God climbed a wave as he might a grassy knoll and picked his way across the choppy waters near the beach, walking atop the transparent shallows towards the dark depths beneath the black clouds.
Thank the gods they picked a fool like Talon, Damian continued.
The Black God picked his way through the rocks and crags before disappearing into the forest.
I think you just picked up Oracle babysitting duty.
Deidre strode to the hearth and picked up the time marker that was no larger than her pinkie.
Then out of the blue came the call from a sticky-sweet state worker informing the Deans that Martha would be picked up on Saturday morning—this was Thursday—for the introductory reunion.
I picked it up in a garage sale, for two dollars—with a bike tire patch kit tossed in.
Grandma & Grandpa Reynolds had already picked up Destiny.
Señor Medena pulled the pie closer and picked up the fork.
Donnie picked up a pair of long legged drawers and held them up with a smile but Edith snatched them away and shook her finger in a mock scold.
Dean picked up Gladys's chatter in mid-conversation.
He was vindictive by nature and—this is the 'guess' part—he cut his line and left my knife which he'd picked up from his wife's room.
The vampire was returning home after spending the night with a beautiful woman he had picked up in the bar at a local hotel.
If she picked, it would be something melancholy, and in his opinion, that was the last thing she needed now.
When he had five bags of type O, he picked them up and went back to the drawing room.
Jackson downed his drink, picked up his glass of blood, went to the bar and grabbed three bottles of scotch.
The alternative – that Death might see Rhyn as a viable leader for the Council – was inconceivable. No self-serving, reckless, half-evil being could be entrusted with the fate of humanity! Baffled by the deity's bizarre visit, Kris pushed the memories out of his mind. He had to find Rhyn. He picked up his rucksack and joined Kiki outside the tent. Kiki stood before a portal on the dark beach.
Dean returned to the table and conveyed the news as he picked up his coffee— no roll, no change.
Just then, Lieutenant Anderson picked up the phone.
A search of the area where the first suit had fallen revealed the gun, a .38 caliber, which Dean picked up carefully so as not to disturb the prints.
She shopped responsibly, but this time she picked up healthy fresh fruit and vegetables – something she previously would have had to replace with canned food.
When she sat in her chair and picked up the cake decorating catalog, he looked up.
A calloused, human hand picked her up.
He was intrigued when Keller picked up a special old Imari pot.
Careful observers picked up on the nuancesof his gestures.
The enormous furry pink aardvark quickly picked over the moldy old scotch egg.
On his return, the king devised yet one more trap for him, laying an ambush, with picked men of Lycia.
I would have appreciated a more technical appendix that explained the killer techniques he picked up.
He picked impeccable tight arpeggio 's from his guitar.
Made from the purest oils and herbal astringents its aroma is reminiscent of dewy rose petals, freshly picked tangerines and Juniper Berries.
While we have picked up numerous awards as Corporate Law Firm of the Year.
Each is named and has an identity bib so they can be picked out.
Freshly picked beans can be frozen very successfully after briefly blanching them.
We picked bluebells, a large bunch each to take home for Mom.
The flowers on the hand-tied bouquet will look like they have been hand picked by you from the garden.
Last night I picked a whole box of blackberries from the wild brambles that grow over the hedge.
We then dug up potatoes and picked broad beans for tea, but actually had pasta - LOL.
This was picked up on by Radio 1. This must be viewed as the usual bullshit for which the Sun is rightly infamous!
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Eating a freshly picked crab salad on the beach with a glass of chilled Chablis is one of the great pleasures in life.
Boab meanwhile has picked up the head and goes over to Danny. 'Ya chancer, ya bloody chancer ye.
I wondered how many hundreds of ticks and/or chiggers we'd just picked up (actually none to our later and considerable relief ).
When the time came the biologist, Robert Clark, picked up Mrs chippy and gave him an affectionate hug and stroke.
Above them towers the perpendicular clerestory, its windows picked out in brick.
I have some large glass cloches I picked up via freecycle and they would be ideal.
The winners in 18 categories picked up their awards from TV comedian Rory Bremner.
The harder strum energy perfectly complimented by the lighter picked passages.
Hilary Benn spoke for the UK Government and reports I picked up afterward were extremely complimentary.
Had Rounders picked up impish grinnolan is is it to the adrenaline-fueled compulsives.
When they arrive back there to collect her cousin, they come across the very concussed and confused man they accidentally picked up earlier.
When Oswald was picked up, Roselli suggested the underworld conspirators feared he would crack and disclose information that might lead to them.
Captain Goede picked up his microphone and called the control tower at Kirtland AFB and reported what he and his crew had seen.
We picked the first courgettes in the vegetable garden today.
Sum to prepare is spending two graduation he camouflage futon cover picked.
There were lots of spider crabs waiting to be picked up.
I picked up one very like a small cucumber.
Picked up by one of the more notorious pirate ships, Connor soon finds himself wielding a cutlass.
Quality costume jewelry picked up the now defunct fine jewelry market.
Molenaar picked up an injury and looked totally dejected (as well as being injured) as he went off.
A rub-down body search if you trigger the detector, or are randomly picked to be searched.
See, I have always been incredibly upset when my car has picked up little dings and scratches.
It might use a small dish antenna bought mail-order and some parts picked up at a surplus store.
The plow quickly dislodges both compacted material and vegetation which can then be picked up by the loading shovel and disposed of.
Robinson ran onto the ball, looked up, picked his spot and in it went, past the despairing dive of Allcock.
The United ' keeper launched the ball downfield where it was picked up by Howard.
Easter picked up the ball from the back of a scrum and broke downfield, before releasing Keogh out on the right flank.
The birds were a bit hard to come by there, because it was mid-afternoon, but the activity picked up considerably nearer dusk.
Although very close to the water the pilot managed to safely eject form his plane and was picked up by lifeboat.
Many items can be picked up in local charity shops or in dedicated vintage clothing emporiums.
Fifteen years later, a detective called Laura Hiley picked up the data and used DNA evidence to find the identity of the murderer.
I arrived at the site late evening, and immediately picked up an adult Gyr flying along the cliff face - what a bird!
I picked up some specimens, with much glassy feldspar, approaching in character to trachyte.
The piece has been picked up by MTV's documentary division, which is committed to working with established filmmakers in exploring uncharted territory.
In May, Fox picked up the rights to the new Mutant Enemy show firefly.
A Norwegian freighter ' The Tampa ' received the distress calls from the Australian Coast Guard and picked up the refugees.
Then with a dark frown on her face she turned to one of the two telephones beside her and picked up the receiver.
My feeling of well being and energy levels have picked up a lot and now I go home feeling full of energy.
I went to the yard and got 6 gaiters and picked the best ones.
Luis found an armadillo, which he picked up and turned upside down so we could all gawp at it.
Poor Sarah's little giggle behind the tent flap got picked up by the last person she wanted to hear.
Other delicate techniques, such as threading, he picked up from Italian-inspired studio glassmakers, particularly in the United States.
You may find glitches in the website that have not been picked up by us.
He might just as well picked up a wet haddock on the seafront to slap around their faces.
The black alloy handlebars had picked up a few scratches which shows poor quality anodizing in fact they may simply be painted.
I picked up a few of the cobs which a mechanical harvester had failed to collect.
Already the unseemly haste with which the media picked up the flashlight for Blair has created signs of a backlash among Labor supporters.
The coastguard helicopter picked up the diver from the vessel Tango for assessment by a diving specialist doctor.
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Which was fortunate because that was when they got picked on to be ritually humiliated by joining the belly dancer on stage!
Woodward, coached by Matt Hargreaves, also picked up a gold medal in the 400m hurdles.
Courgettes are really just a highly selected form of summer squash whose fruit are picked continuously and eaten immature.
The OU's highly organized monitoring system picked this up straightaway as appearing too impersonal, especially the abbreviations used in margins.
The next song, which featured two guitars, had a great picked intro and chorus.
Case of mhpi discipline velas said japan has picked.
Comes with a flat key to quell concerns that the Ace cylindrical keyway Kryptonite used to employ could be picked with a cylindrical pipe.
Scotland was picked out with ease and his neat lob gave Cairns no chance.
Have you picked the Federal Pen the sky marshals are to be housed in yet?
He was typical of the many Jerry Green stray dogs picked up daily wandering and lonely often mistreated and hungry.
Narcissus special activity in winter is to see the first scented narcissi being picked in the fields.
Being picked at in school, You've been called a nerd, Nowhere left to turn.
The issue seems a no-brainer, yet somehow Columbia Records in America never picked up on the album.
But strike bowler Austin dismissed both openers and Tom Kearney also picked up a couple of wickets as Rainham pushed for the win.
When buying navel oranges, select those with small sized navels as larger navels indicate that they were overripe when picked.
John was picked to help take the vegetables parings over to the farm for pig swill.
Why not throw in " Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers "?
So I first picked up my mask, then I took a scared peep around.
Best picked at 1.5 inches in length or at 4 to 6 inches in length for dill pickles.
Researchers working on the e-materials project picked up the gauntlet and successfully predicted a new polymorph of the Alzheimer's drug, piracetam.
The herbs have to be harvested at precise times to ensure maximum potency, the fruits picked at exactly the right degree of maturity.
It sells at about £ 4 a bunch but only remains potent for a few days after picked.