9723 examples of picking in sentences

Stella was just picking them up off the bench when a shadow darkened the door, and she looked around to see Jack Fyfe.

Stella was humming the words of the song, her fingers picking at the melody instead of the accompaniment.

I couldn't, after that, start in picking his character to pieces as a mater of precaution.

Earliest Recollections "My own earliest recollections was of picking cotton in one of those squadsthe groups I was telling you about.

Now, his manner of picking up my glass had his entire history in it.

The first cotton-picking season that came round after my marriage seemed to afford Charlie no end of opportunities for riding his hobby at a fast and furious pace.

It was the very rainiest, wettest, muddiest picking-season that had ever been seen.

The squadron had become separated, however, and the governor was pursuing his way alone in the hope of picking up the others in the river.

"Good-evening, my children," said the stranger, picking up his pictures again and advancing towards them.

" The hot blood flushed to the soldier's head, and picking up the axe, he took a quick step forward.

All day they pursued their dreary march, picking their way through vast morasses, skirting the borders of blue woodland lakes where the gray stork flapped heavily up from the reeds at their approach, or plunging into dark belts of woodland where it is always twilight, and where the falling of the wild chestnuts and the chatter of the squirrels a hundred feet above their heads were the only sounds which broke the silence.

Picking up a bit of paper on which I had been scribbling down a few memoranda that I feared might escape my mind, I hastened into the hallway to meet a somewhat spare, tall, and extremely erect-appearing man.

They had an electric effect upon the prisoners, who with one accord got busy picking up microscopic and invisible bits from the floor.

The picking required more perseverance than strength.

A citizen of Alabama, for example, announced success in devising a cotton picking machine; but as in many subsequent cases in the same premises, the proclamation was premature.

In cotton picking, likewise, the conditions of the crop were so variable and the need of haste so great that time work, perhaps with special rewards for unusually heavy pickings, was the common resort.

In cotton picking time when sickness begins to be prevalent, every field hand gets a dram in the morning before leaving for the field.

Collins further advocated plenty of clothing, moderate hours, work by tasks in cotton picking and elsewhere when feasible, and firm though kindly discipline.

The fuel in the stoves was replenished, and quite a large space was cleared to the leeward of the locomotive, where a fire was built from the neighboring fences, so that in an hour's time from the finding of the poultry the entire body of passengers were busy picking the bones of roasted and broiled fowls.

The point is that nowhere else but in Prussian Germany is any theory of honour mixed up with such things; any more than with poisoning or picking pockets.

" The glorious summer day had fallen asleep on the bosom of the horizon, and twilight had merged into dusk, as, picking up the basket, Harold and I returned cherry- and strawberry-less to the tennis court.

Said the Staff Captain, ingenuously translating in his mind from French to English, and speaking with slow caution, as though picking his way among the chevaux de frise of the English language: "There arevery beautiful pagesin hismilitary life.

One had seen two thousand champagne bottles strewn around a chateau from which the invaders had decamped, and the old butler of the house going carefully through the grounds and picking up the bottles which by chance had not been opened.

Why, bless my soul, sir, she's been thinking of nothing else for the past two or three days but the coming of the postman, expecting a letter from you, not considering that you didn't know where to address her, or that it was rather scant time for a letter to come from La Guayra, where Captain Stearns would take you if he succeeded in picking you up.

He put his arms around her and held her close, and patted her hair and called her girlie, and laid his brown cheek against her wet one and told her to never mind and that it would be all right anyway, and that her father was probably picking away in his mine right then and wishing she was there to fry his bacon for him.

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