139 adverbs to describe how to pick

Mechanically, with stiff fingers, he picked it up and jammed it on again.

Cautiously picking my way, I gained the top of the moraine and was delighted to see a small but well characterized glacier swooping down from the gloomy precipices of Black Mountain in a finely graduated curve to the moraine on which I stood.

Not a bit of paper or cloth blew along the turnpike but he eagerly picked it up, searched in it with the most anxious care, and finally placed it in his hat.

Rather idly she picked it up, and the next moment she uttered a cry that brought her chums to her side in some alarm.

A faint, but appetizing, odour of cookery, including that of fragrant coffee, was in the air, and there were to be freshly picked strawberries for breakfast.

Then there won't be any talk about our being traitors to the Dozen, for we'll just pick the Dozen up bodily and carry it over to Kingston!

I was watching Malta from the window, as she daintily picked her way across the muddy street.

It was, therefore, with much astonishment that on looking at the paste-board which I had casually picked up in the railway carriage I saw the name on it, "Frank Errington.

" Turning, I picked it up hastily, lest she should recognize it.

It is astonishing how readily our classes pick up any novelty brought into town by a strolling company,holding the body out horizontally from an upright pole, or hanging by the back of the head, or touching the head to the heels, though this last is oftener tried than accomplished.

Silently, steadily, like a dark shadow, the broncho picked his way among the fields of fire-blistered rock and held his course, unerringly, through the starlit gloom hanging over the earth before the late moon should flash its silver disk above the sand-hills miles to the east.

They merely "pick out the thorns" and "lay bare the bones" of previous systems, using newfangled terms and misty arguments with a "vainglorious parade".

"Now, why on earth does that fellow deliberately pick a fight with me?" wondered Darrin, as he strolled along by himself.

Part of the cliff had slid off into the river and the breach thus made in the road had been repaired by means of a frail-looking rustic bridge built on a bracket composed of rough logs, branches, and reeds, tied together and surmounted by a few inches of earth and pebbles to make it seem sufficiently safe to the cautious cargo mules who picked their way gingerly across it.

he added as I hurriedly picked up my hat.

" Abbey picked nervously at a blade of grass for a minute.

Silently, steadily, like a dark shadow, the broncho picked his way among the fields of fire-blistered rock and held his course, unerringly, through the starlit gloom hanging over the earth before the late moon should flash its silver disk above the sand-hills miles to the east.

Then turning back, he strode the length of the long baize-covered table, sometimes absently picking up a document, until, facing her again as she narrated the story of Jack's misfortunes, he would fling it hastily on the scattered heaps and fix his mild eye upon her.

Mary stole forward and picked it up stealthily; she was incapable of resisting her curiosity or even of stopping to think about her action.

Silently, lightly, the four men picked their steps among the great tree trunks.

He was often in the churchyard on a Sunday morning, picking his way softly among the graves after the congregation had gone in, and he would sit the whole service out beside the porch, listening as one listens outside a hive of bees.

They scouted around West Point, and nearly three hours afterward they picked up the trail heading toward New York.

Most of the latter were gradually picked up by the English.

He had picked them unerringly, and to his taste, in Cardiff, and Hamburg, and Vladivostok.

He kep' gittin' mo' en mo' triflin', 'tel he got de name er bein' de mos' no 'countes' nigger on de plantation, en Mars' Dugal' had ter th'eaten ter sell 'im in de spring, w'en bimeby de goopher quit wukkin', en Hannibal 'mence' ter pick up some en make folks set a little mo' sto' by 'im.

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