Now the Caliph, before lying down to rest on the previous afternoon, had taken the precaution to bestow the mysterious and wonderful charm hehad picked up, in a place of safety.
He looked at me very hard, to observe what effect this offer would produce, for no doubt, in spite of my denial, he suspected that I had picked up the brush.
By an old thing which I had pickedup some time before--a book.
He particularly dwelt on the unheard-of manner in which I had picked up the Irish language, and drew from thence the conclusion that I was not fitted by nature to cut a respectable figure at an English university.
He consented; and during the next fortnight I did little else than give him lessons in elocution, following to a tittle the method of the great professor, which I had picked up, listening behind the door.
He consented; and during the next fortnight I did little else than give him lessons in elocution, following to a tittle the method of the great professor, which I had picked up listening behind the door.
Turning over all I had pickedup at the end of a couple of days, I felt that I could come pretty near to reconstructing in my mind those scenes of the drama of which there had been no witnesses save the actors themselves.
He declined my fat gold-tipped Egyptians, heavily salted with kief (another accursed habit I had picked up in Paris), and lighted a slender Sumatra cheroot from his own case.
At length it began to seem improbable that any one would remember if he had picked up a pocketbook that morning.
It was never known where he had picked her up, but he married her after trying her in the cafe during six months or so.
A man who was nursing me told me quietly that he had picked me up one morning on the Boulevard Montparnasse and had brought me to his house.
He had pickedup the gun of a dead soldier and himself was firing.
Several days previously we had picked up a small slow convoy off a West African port, and were escorting it to a port on the West Coast of England.
I closed with that offer at once, and eight bells had not long gone before I had picked my precarious way over to the Sherill, and climbed the ladders to her snug little bridge.
We had escorted the north-bound convoy across to Bergen, and, on the afternoon of the 16th of October, had picked up the south-bound and headed back for one of the home ports.
It was well for him that he had picked up a few words and sentences at Suakim and Cairo, for this enabled him to make far more rapid progress than he would have done had he been ignorant of the language.
I have been more with them, Rupert; besides, I had pickedup a little in the year I was at Cairo.
He had picked up a good many Arabic words, but not enough to enable him to understand the discussion; but he had no doubt that the subject of dispute was whether he should be killed at once or carried away prisoner.
I thought I had picked it up pretty quickly, but you jaw away as if you had been years at it.
At thought of Pant, Johnny dug into his pocket and drew forth the mass of wires, tubes and instruments which he had picked up on the spot where the cat had attacked Pant.
Perhaps she was the one who had picked it up; who held it among her possessions now.
Charlie and Harry also each got into a bigger tree than the one Bunny had picked out.
He got down from the one he had picked out, and started up another.
She took from his hand the shiny, glittering thing he had pickedup from the barn floor.
It was an accident, and if he had picked it up and been sorry, there would have been an end of it; but instead of that the brute burst into a loud laugh.
The white sails of the English cruisers as they sailed up or down the channel were clearly visible, and occasionally a privateer could be seen making its way westward with a prize it had picked up off Texel.
It was the check he had picked up from the floor of the McIntyre limousine that morning and inadvertently carried away with him.
Mayo, who had been writing with feverish haste, had picked up a fresh sheet of paper before resuming his examination.
In their earnestness neither noticed Kent's absent-minded clutch on a small folded paper which he had picked up from the floor of the limousine.
Penfield replaced the handkerchief on the table with the same care he had picked it up, and turned again to her.
Do you recall whether he told you he had picked it up in New Orleans and--or did he tell you he didn't want to talk about it?
He told me he had picked it up down there and when I questioned further then he told me he didn't want to talk about it.
I presumed by that he had used it by saying he had picked it up in New Orleans.
As I stood by the table to fill my pipe for a last smoke, I saw that he was carefully regarding the letter he had picked up, turning it over and over, and apparently debating with himself what to do with it.
He had picked it up from the wreckage of the floor.
He had pickedup a microscope slide that was lying on the table.
A man in an automobile had come to him that morning and said he had been robbed of his pocketbook and watch by a young woman he had picked up on the road.
The girl we had picked up was not Margery, but "Light Fingered Sal", a pickpocket!
Our rescuer had jumped right after us, and by the time we had picked ourselves up and got our breath back enough to thank him he had vanished from the scene.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had picked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
