Mix all well together with the pickings from the body of the lobster; pick the meat from the shell, cut it up into nice square pieces, put half in the salad, the other half reserve for garnishing.

Quoth Robin Hood, "Yon is verily a sorry-looking gallant, and doth seem to have donned ill-content with his jerkin this morning; nevertheless, I will out and talk with him, for there may be some pickings here for a hungry daw.

So let us finish with Ceolwulf, just noting that a year or two later his pagan lords seem to have found much of the spoil of monasteries, and the pickings of earl and churl, of folkland and bookland, sticking to his fingers, instead of finding its way to their coffers.

I suspect that the crows get nothing but the gratification of curiosity and the pickings of some secret store of seeds unearthed by the badger.

That's the way the Pickings man had, that wrote Little Nell; father said so.

From the lower part of the stalk where it opened first is where they got the first pickings.

After the first pickings were secured the cotton developed very fast, continuing to bud and bloom all over the stalk until the frost falls.

'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.

' Do send me that sweet book of 'pickings,' I hear you will publish in June.

Booty N. booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag [Slang], pickings; spolia opima [Lat.], prey; blackmail; stolen goods.

But Aquillius, who had once put up Phrygia to auction, knew what pickings there were for a senator when war was afoot in Asia, and perhaps may have had the honester notion that, as Mithridates was sure to go to war soon, it was for the public as well as for his private interest to act boldly and strike the first blow.

"Come back, I say, you loafing, miching, wrecking crow-keepers; there are no pickings for you here.

Pretty pickings for Government!

All the rich scraps and pickings will fall to me and I shall get nice and fat: then will be the time for you to eat me.

The pickings should be good.

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Pickings, illustrations for pulpit and platform.

Early birds had lean financial pickings in aviation.

Early birds had lean financial pickings in aviation.

Early birds had lean financial pickings in aviation.

Early birds had lean financial pickings in aviation.

He added with equal candour: "Drudgery great, but to an intelligent man the pickings may be considerable."

T. Sandys had felt that he was particularly good at pickings.

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

Even the dogs and the crows abandon it for the more attractive surroundings and richer pickings of the summer balagáns.