These also wyll picke and steale as the vpright men, and hath their women and metinges at places apoynted, and nothinge to them inferiour in all kynde of knauery.
Heire apparant, could the World picke thee out three such Enemyes againe, as that Fiend Dowglas, that Spirit Percy, and that Deuill Glendower?
The other Night I fell asleepe heere behind the Arras, and had my Pocket pickt: this House is turn'd Bawdy-house, they picke Pockets Prince.
I have seene in my daies an inscription, harder to finde out the meaning, and yet easier for a man to picke a better meaning out of it, if he be not a man of H.
Wee may picke a thousand sallets ere wee light on such another hearbe Clo.
His answer to me was He could not stay to picke them, in a pile Of noysome musty Chaffe.
Chill pickeyour teeth Zir: come, no matter vor your foynes Stew.
Would the Nobility lay aside their ruth, And let me vse my Sword, I'de make a Quarrie With thousands of these quarter'd slaues, as high As I could picke my Lance Menen.
Didst not thou promise she would picke no mo quarels?
At this point they slept not, but lightly and with great delight they began to picke and hew the wall.
In euery boat two men, and great long targets twaine: Most of their darts had long strings then to picke and pull againe.
I pittie Nizolius that had nothing to doe, but picke thrids ends out of an olde ouerworne garment.
Then was I driu'n to picke vp my crums amongst the Cardinals, to implore the beneuolence & charitie of al the Dukes of Italy whereby I haue since made a poore shift to liue, but so liue, as I wish my selfe a thousand times dead.
A number of olde bookes had he eaten with the moathes and wormes, now all daye would not hee studye a dodkin, but picke those wormes and moathes out of his Librarie, and of their mixture make a preseruatiue against the plague.
Cesar to picke a new quarrell against them, which if it had wanted, he would yet (I doubt not) haue found some other: for his full meaning was to make a more full conquest of that Ile.
Of a picke thanke, that thought to begyle the same moste prudent kynge.
So one, that sat at the abbottes tables, gaue the rompe of the goose to the mayde to picke theron.
A tothe and eare-picke of golde, being a dolphin enamuled, with a perle pendaunte, 16 small rubyes being but sparcks, and 5 sparcks of dyamonds.
An eare-picke of golde enamuled, garnished with sparcks of rubyes, blue saphirs, and seede perle.
Good husband and huswife, will sometime alone, make shift with a morsell and picke of a bone.
Hereout a man may soone picke forth, Few feeleth what a pennie is worth, Till such time as they wiue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
