He was lying on the ground all bundled up in the bag, and his assailant, who must have heard me coming, had gone as if by magic.
The writer of this letter belongs to the criminal classes; he is on his guard against the danger of finger-prints, and he wore rubber gloves when he penned this message.
Well," he said, "I suppose I must go and pick my peas.
I don't know about city ways, but I could pick up all of them that were worth while.
They were relieved from time to time, two others coming out to take their places, and every day they had visits from the ambulances which came out to pick up the wounded.
The Germans were coming on with great rapidity, and if there is one dangerous job, it is to pick up the wounded of a retreating army.
She must wait to pick up her boat, and that will give us a mile at least.
Come, I'll give you yours at once, and I hope it may not be the last hundred pounds that you'll pick up.
Come on Monday, and as you can't go to church to-morrow, see if you can't pick up a little money.
My man,' said the captain, `I must pick up those who are in more danger than you.
The Vicar's pretty bad, but with rest and change there's no reason why he shouldn't pick up.
It has amused me to pick up good specimens here and there.
Pick up the axes an' we'll see what kind of flares fifteen or twenty gallons of alcohol will make.
A swamp, thick with juniper, barred his course, and fearfully he turned southward to pick his way about it.
Those cowardly dogs, who run if a man but stoop down to pick up a stone.
Having lost its gloss, the last neglected fish lies on the ground; even the children are too lazy to pick it up; and an indifferent, satiated foot treads it into the mud.
Jesus, observing this, ordered him to throw away the useless weapon, and it fell under foot with a dull thud, and so evidently had it lost its sharpness and destructive power that it did not occur to any one to pick it up.
General," he said, "if a man owns a lot, has anybody else a right to come on to it and pick fruit of any kind?
After the middle of January and the beginning of the allotment of the land, the population of La Gloria began to "pick up" somewhat.
When I need money I pick off some bananas and sell them.
The object of the visit was to prove if the description given by her of the room, in which she was confined, was correct, and if she could pick out from a number of persons the woman who had cut off her stays and locked her up.
All volunteers were welcome, and convent-bred though she was, Catalina soon managed to pick up a good deal of seamanship, while her clever hands and her strength combined made her quickly useful.
All this time, as we have said, Thornton had been caged up in the cupboard in his wet clothes, till he was almost too stiff to stoop to pick up his food when the woman thrust it under his door.
If they wanted more learning they must pick it up for themselves.
And as one must be prepared for a fall, we will pick out a place for your lesson where you can't hurt yourself much.
She took the greatest care topick up her shells and the fallen birds' nests as if she really hardly knew what she was doing, and was thinking of something else all the time.
Billy had not been particular as to his crusts and fragments of victuals in days of yore, but it was wonderful how sharp his eye was on this occasion to note and pick up every minute crumb, and transfer it to his hungry mouth.
On pasture farms they beat clots or pick up stones out of the way of the mowers' scythes.
They are put to turn dung-heaps, clean out the yards, pick up the weeds in the garden, and such like little jobs, over which they can dawdle as much as they like.
A few days after her marriage, dropping her ring on the floor, she languidly ordered her servant to pick it up.
I think I will go over to the club and see what Papa is planning and how his game is going, and then I could pick you girls up here.
I dropped Carol at the club, but I think Aunt Rachael means to pick her up there later, and go on to Mrs. Whittaker's for tea.
It suited her whim to carry out the little affectation in her soaps and toilet waters; he could not pick up her handkerchief or hold her wrap for her without freeing the delicate faint odor of her favorite flower.
So I pick up pieces of silk, from time to time, and keep him supplied.
Never mind," Rachael consoled the discomfited junior, "Pauline will come in andpick them all up.
His honor did not apparently think it expedient to stop just then to pick it up, and Obadiah Weeks, leaping forward, made it a prey, and instantly elevated it on a pole, amid roars of derisive laughter.
They pick clean, ye see, an take all we've got, an every little helps.
A spring bubbled out of a pebbly basin, and he poked about in the grass beside it with his foot, presently stooping to pick up something which proved to be a short bit of charred stick.
It hardly seems real to pick up several thousand dollars in half an hour or so like this.
It was proposed to send for a menuisier to pick the lock; but how was one to be found at three o'clock in the morning?
Had they been permitted to pick their grapes at their own time, they might have used the presses, and have finished before the large vineyards had commenced.
He rambled through a verdant and unfrequented lane, and described what he felt as he stopped to pick blackberries.
He even allowed Dab to pick out a line for him, and to put on the hook and sinker; and Dick Lee showed him how to fix his bait, "so de fust cunner dat rubs agin it won't knock it off.
But he had had a warning not to pick a quarrel with me after his experience in the summer, when, contrary to his expectations, the music written by me to celebrate the King's arrival had found favour with the monarch.
Then while they watch us here--they will always watch us here now--we can buy an aeroplane abroad, and pick them up.
If,' he whispered, 'if only we could pickthat lock.
The hatter and myself had a long consultation about handling the putrid carcases, and agreed between ourselves to pick out the soundest of them first.
Having no companion left with me except my sick Indian, and no food to eat, I was obliged to pick up old cocoa-nuts or any other articles I could swallow to satisfy my craving appetite.
Illustration: Figure 2] Pickthe Right Bell or Buzzer Some of the many different types of bells, and various ways of controlling them are suggested in the table below.
Next, pick out those areas where you or others would likely be when someone else would answer the phone and want to call you to it.
Touch the other end of the wire to the other terminal for a few seconds and see how many tacks you can pick up.
In the same way, you can magnetize a screwdriver, so that you can use it to pick up and hold steel screws.
A magnetised sovereign having been placed on the floor, Jane, then in the state of delirium, was directed to stoop and pick it up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
