32 Verbs to Use for the Word pluck

He was nearest, and I liked his pluck, for he spoke cheerful and made me ashamed to growl.

"I rather admire his pluck.

"By Jove, though, she's got some pluck!"

We showed good pluck, if we did get licked.

The way was not long, but time after time it took all the pluck of which Juanita Sterling was mistress not to stop in the path and cry out that she could not go a step farther.

The poor little boy, who has lost his pluck in the fever, began to cry; but that young girl, though she was as white as a sheet, never gave up for a moment, and sat in her place like a man.

And everything one hears makes one respect their pluck and endurance more.

The teamsters eagerly asked us a hundred questions concerning our fight, admired our fort and praised our pluck.

My word, it required some pluck to move about in the den of the great Tartarin.

"I imagine it needed some pluck to stop the hunt," she said.

"You are very obstinate, Tom, but I know your pluck.

In both breeds we find the same indomitable pluck, the same pendulous ear, and a light silky "topknot" adorning the skull of each; but the Dandie was evolved into a long-bodied, short-legged dog, and the Bedlington became a long-legged, short-bodied dog!

I was frightened, but anger gave me pluck.

He knew Mrs. Seaton, and thought she meant to hint his pluck might soon be needed.

EYESThe eyes should be small, not being too deeply set in or protruding out of skull, of a dark hazel colour, expressive and indicating abundant pluck.

Chorus: For the banks, &c. When the country was cursed with the drought at its worst, And the cattle were dying in scores, Though down on my luck, I kept up my pluck, Thinking justice might temper the laws.

The world will furnish the work to do, But you must provide the pluck.

He remembered the pluck with which she had struggled against the fear she obviously felt, her impulsive trust when he offered help, and her relief when she got into the locomotive cab.

That a man's most exalted reason should depend upon the ignoble fermenting of a fruit, which sparrows pluck at as well as we! GRAY (aside to Lovel) Observe how he is ravished.

It seemed that Bill had not been able to resist the temptation of going to see what kind of a mob it was that wanted to test the pluck of the Buffalo Bill party; and just as he stepped into the room, one of the bruisers put his hand on his shoulder and said: "Hello, Buffalo Bill!

"He 'ad the pluck to draw fust, and he won; anybody else might ha' done it.

And in the garden kneels a child, She weeds or merely dallies, A lily plucks with gesture mild And wanders down the alleys.

What, Laura, say, the vortex that can draw Body to body in its strong control; Beloved Laura, what the charmèd law That to the soul attracting plucks the soul?

She has her father's picture in a bracelet on her arm, and her fingers are bloody with the heart, as if she had just bought a sheep's pluck in St. James's Market.

Parents, with sternness sometimes verging on cruelty, set their children to tasks that called forth all the pluck that was in them.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  pluck