And nowsee here, Sir!I carry these always about with me, lest the pretty pickings of this Tom Tiddler's ground should make my experience forget.

That's just what it must meanthe pay-car would offer fat pickings, all in cash; and they've held up their flight to Canada just to try and gobble it.

This portal to his brain had already been open for some days; but all the other doors were fast locked, and it required a great deal of careful picking to open them.

Mind not at all the little picking and carping of human gadflies, whose desire to extract blood is perhaps a survival of their species, and an evidence of their unfitness for human companionship.

Soil mighty poor pickings.

Every now and then he glanced down the road towards St. Austell, and after each glance resumed his nervous picking at the blister of green paint that had troubled him earlier in the day.

We are not going in for oakum picking and stone breaking.

And did the intruder get in by magic, by outside lock-picking, or by inside collusion?

" "But there'll be no more pleasant pickings, my poor and faithless steward!

'T won't be inconveniencing you because I know that there's precious few pickings to be got out of these Central India Stateseven though you pretend to be correspondent or the Backwoodsman.

The third night out from Vilhena we emerged for a moment from the endless close-growing forest in which our poor animals got such scanty pickings, and came to a beautiful open country, where grassy slopes, dotted with occasional trees, came down on either side of a little brook which was one of the headwaters of the Duvida.

But many such, believe me, if placed behind three, or even four, of these luscious birds, cooked with the artistic accuracy of the Maxwell Point cuisine, would leave a cat but sorry pickings, especially when the bottle passes freely, and jovial friends cheer you on.

The farmer did full justice to the sweet picking off the chine, and then lingered over an old cheese.

The only objection I feel is founded on a fear that the acceptance may be a temptation to you to let fall the bone (hard as it is) which is in your mouth and must afford tolerable pickings, for the shadow of independence.

This observation, moreover, it behoves a mother carefully to regard, since the symptoms, popularly supposed to indicate the existence of worms, are so deceptive, (and none more so than that which is usually so much depended uponthe picking of the nose,) that it may be positively asserted to be impossible for an unprofessional person to form a correct and sound opinion in any of these cases.

Almost instinctively we turned our craft crosswise to the river to face the coming waves; for to take them broadside meant a weary picking up of fragments from the cabin floors, and a premature commingling of the contents of the refrigerator.

Child-labor in agriculture has never become a social "problem" so long as the children work with their own parents at their own homes; but the labor of children for wages, especially in gangs on large farms (as in beet cultivation and cranberry picking) or in canning factories, has exhibited evils as pronounced as any in urban manufacturing conditions.

well enough to recognise that from Selwoode's new master there were no desirable pickings to be had such as the philanthropic crew had fattened on these four years past.