He had not any strength for anger now, and hardly for grief, Agatha had been his charge; and the fact that he had never plucked up courage to allude to her practises was now an enormity in which he could not quite believe.

From nettled young Democracy, He plucks the safety-flower.

Their hungry swarms the peaceful vale shall fright, Still fierce to threaten, still afraid to fight; The teeming year's whole product shall devour, Insatiate pluck the fruit, and crop the flow'r; Shall glutton on the industrious peasants' spoil, Rob without fear, and fatten without toil; Then o'er the world shall discord stretch her wings; Kings change their laws, and kingdoms change their kings.

" "Do you remember the scene in Shakespeare where Bolingbroke and Gaunt pluck the roses?" "Quite well.

This discovery gave me some melancholy weeks, but I plucked up heart and set to reasoning.

"I might wash those potatoes," said Dotty, plucking Norah's sleeve; "do you put soap on them?" "Not much soapno.

He plucked a hair from his back and gave it to Half-a-Cock.

He gave up kingdom, city, wife, and son; he plucked out his eyes and gave them to another; he cut off a piece of his flesh to ransom the life of a dove; he cut off his head and gave it as an alms; he gave his body to feed a starving tigress; he grudged not his marrow and brains.

The first human creature he had seen outside his cell since he became an inmate of this prison appeared before his eyes,the young girl skipping through the garden till she came to the flower-bed and plucked the scarlet blossom.

But, Gentlemen, pluck up your Spirits, be bold and resolute.

He held a book in one hand, from which he would pluck leaves and cast them on the fire, and at every burnt-offering a wail of ecstasy would go up from the hooded women and kneeling men.

A bird one may not catch, Nor find a nest, nor angle neither, Nor from the peacock pluck a feather, But you are on the watch To moralise and lecture still.

Even ash, even ash, I pluck thee, This night my true love for to see, Neither in his rick nor in his rear, But in the clothes he does every day wear.

Hereon Walkyn frowned and plucked his beard awhile, but thereafter, came he to kneel and kiss her hand and swear to aid her the while life him lasted.

I alighted, and plucked a whole handful of these "wee, modest, crimson-tipped flowers," which will be precious to many friends in our own country as coming from Burns's farm, and being of the same race and lineage as that daisy which he turned into an amaranthine flower while seeming to destroy it.

From what could vanity proceed In such a little lisping lad? Or was it vanity indeed? Or was he only very glad? For he without his maid may go To the heath with elder boys, And pluck ripe berries where they grow: Well may William then rejoice.

Mary roamed about with a swifter footstep, looking at the roses, plucking off a dead leaf, or a cankered bud here and there.

So graceful in her movements, and so sweet, Her very look plucked from the breast of age The root of sorrowher wine-sipping lips, And mouth like sugar, cheeks all dimpled o'er With smiles, and glowing as the summer rose Won every heart.

They break the tenth commandment, and pluck down upon their heads the plagues that are written in the book.

Then said Saul to his squire: Pluck out thy sword and slay me, that these men uncircumcised come not and, scorning, slay me; and his squire would not for he was greatly afeard.

The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile.

And she to be utter in wonder of the trees; and to need that she pluck branches, and smell of them and look at each leaf; and so to be all stirred; for never in that life did she to have seen such a matter as those great trees did be; but yet to be all stirred by vague memories that did seem no more than dreams.

" "Cruel!" says my Beltane, and thereafter fell silent from sheer amaze the while she sighed again, and bowed her shapely head and plucked a daisy from the grass to turn it about and about in gentle fingers.

He did not cut it, but, rolling up his sleeves a little way, he laid hold of it, placed his heel against the ground, and, with one mighty pull, plucked the young tree up by the roots from out the very earth.

Muckle John let the thing fall into the moss, and plucked another weapon from his belt.