You might as well light a bundle of wooden tooth-picks and put it in the fire-place.

After this nothing Tom did pleased any of the familyit was a continual pick on him.

This was his own tamanous, and right joyous was he at the omen, so taking his elk-horn pick he began to dig right sturdily at the foot of the monument.

The coolie crowd huddled here alone, clutching their futile picks and shovels, grovelling in helpless panic.

Master Brahmin was feebly tapping the earth with a kind of single-headed pick, and watching him, Moussa Isa saw that, in a quarter of an hour or so, he might plausibly and legitimately pass within a yard or two of this his enemy, as he went to and fro between the water-tap and the strip of flower-border that he was sprinkling....

The red-blind will select green and brown; the green-blind picks out reds or lighter brown.

It would be foolish to begin digging a tunnel through a mountain with a mere pick and spade.

They came with the rude pick and spade of that time; and, in the first six working hours of the day, they dug thirty holes on this side of the aisle, and planted in them half the tiny trees of their bundle.

However, after one or two more journeys between the tap and the flower-bed, he would pass within striking-distance of the dog as he worked his slow way along the tract of earth he was supposed to be digging up with the silly short-handled pick.

This was his own tamanous, and right joyous was he at the omen, so taking his elk-horn pick he began to dig right sturdily at the foot of the monument.