With a sigh of relief he picked up the basket; then whistling gaily as a mockingbird, he set out once more in the direction of Rosehaven.
A normal percentage of loss for medium grades is 10%, this is likely to be higher, if the cotton has been picked during moist weather and contains much unripe cotton.
The picked cotton consists of two thirds of seed and one third of actual cotton.
He wore a plain tweed suit; and as he rose he picked up a billycock hat that was lying on the table.
Carelessly he stepped aside, and, bending, pickedup the object that had caught his attention.
Even the gun he carried, undoubtedly purchased by a bundle of rich furs from the French traders of the Mississippi posts, could be seen, as he picked his way across the little gap in the dark intervening forest, and then vanished beyond.
Bob picked up Sandy's gun, and such parts of his clothing as he had discarded.
The repairs, somehow, took longer than he thought.
I'm afraid he may be running amok among the guests.
One can't get married without settling the day," said Celia, coming cleverly back to the point.
We thought of--I thought of having lunch in the hotel, but, of course, you can have my rucksack to carry yours in.
He looked at us, and you could see that his opinion of us had gone down.
As I am never at work as early as that, and as my watch said eleven-thirty, I guessed at once that William had stopped.
You're sure to meet all right," said Celia confidently.
I stayed there for thirteen weeks, and then went with my old friend to Grimsby, he having received news that a German hairdresser, named Macdonald, was resident in that town.
Tom Swift picked out only those with immense tusks, and soon had several to his credit.
No files of the red dwarfs, coming from their scattered villages to join their tribesmen, had been noted in the vicinity picked out, and it was hoped that it would answer.
Tomba, armed with a big club he had pickedup in the jungle, was ready to follow.
Us went to de fiel's early in de morning and picked us a mess of young hick'ry and oak leaves to scald and cook in de pot wid meat.
Some of dem jes' fall ovah on de groun', asleep, and is picked up, and put on dey pallet in de big chillens room.
De men and women worked in de field all day, but I never picked a bit of cotton all my life.
De nigger picked up a shovel and slam him in de haid, and run.
Being what was known as a "yard servant," he had pickedup much of the talk of his white masters and spoke his own version of their language.
I went to de fiel' and hosed cotton, pulled fodder and picked cotton wid de res' of de han's.
For heaven's sake, (said Roseline,) what nonsense have you picked up?
He was picked up and carried to his house groaning aloud.
At each sat a man or woman--for the sexes worked together--who from a basket at hand picked the coarser fragments, and so left the finer description of the tea to be dealt with again.
Those arms at present I have flung away, finding that somehow we miscalculated; And that we should have picked a luckier day to glut us with the blood we hated.
In our regular military hospital were several Tartar soldiers, some of them severely wounded, who had been picked up on the field of battle by our establishments, and now treated like our own men.
When all were seated in the admiral's steam launch, the admiral descended the accommodation ladder and himself picked up the tiller ropes.
He picked out of the candidates for the presidency the man he thought would help the interests.
I took pains to explain to him that having picked up the beacon at the mouth of the river just before dark and the tide serving, Captain C-- was enabled to cross the bar and there was nothing to prevent him going up river at night.
The house was on one floor but raised well above the ground, and the fall was so serious that the man remained lying stunned till the cook and a stable-boy ventured forth at dusk from their hiding-places and picked him up.
Or it might even be resting delicately poised on its point by the side of the table-leg, and when picked up show a gaping, inefficient beak which would have discouraged any man of literary instincts.
It was while we were all ashore on the islet that a steamer was picked up by the telescope, a black speck like an insect posed on the hard edge of the offing.
He picked up the knapsack suddenly and got on to his feet.
It was not very likely that he hadpicked up that relic in the street.
But the old partridge, coming to the little ones, picked up one of these juicy-looking bags and clucked and dropped it, and picked it up again and again and clucked, then swallowed it.
I could see that Lobo had come to the first bait, sniffed about it, and had finally picked it up.
When the priest was gone, Norris picked up the child and held her in his lap.
He put on his hat and picked at a splinter on the door.
Wall, a bit of a rattle as he passed over a stony patch told me the direction he had taken, and precious soon I had picked up his traces again.
Allow me," said Joe, and promptly picked up two of them.
Hurley pickedhimself up, scrambled on one of their backs, and went ahead.
You've come at last," grinned Hank, as Joe picked himself up and rose to an erect position.
We've picked up a heap of lost way, and to-night we'll nab him.
Then he mounted the rig, having previously pickedup the whip which Joe had used, cracked it, and set off down the track in the direction of the railway.
As to Hurley's quarter section, the winter being on them, it happened that there was no one who cared to purchase, and Joe had picked it up at a very modest figure.
The little fellow was gifted with wonderful intelligence, and picked up Joe's unspoken thoughts with the same intuition with which he would have ferreted out the tracks of an enemy, or guessed at their possible movements.
He picked up a stone, and was searching his memory for one of the many formulas that the Indian has in his rituals, when a faint pattering sound attracted his attention.
On the following morning Topanashka left before daybreak with five picked men in the hideous garb of Indian braves.
Cayamo, on his expedition to secure scalps, had picked up a sweetheart.
He almost chided himself now for not having pickedup the foot-gear.
She picked up a stone, raised it in the awkward manner in which most girls handle missiles, and running toward the boy hurled it at him.
Frank, as he ran to one side and pickedup a plump hen from under a bush.
He picked up the dial, which was painted white with black numerals on it.
Sandy picked himself up, for he was not hurt, and came to the heads of the horses.
They picked up the boy, who was lying in a drift of snow on the sidewalk, and hurried on with him.
Why," remarked Bart, as he picked up the message he had dropped, "it hardly seems possible.
The Kalevide picked out the longest, and bent it into a hoop, when it straightened itself at once.
The occupant of the nearest house told me an oven constructed of flat slate-stones was discovered in an angle of the work; also that shot had been picked up on the beach, and a tomahawk, and stone pipe taken from the well.
I have picked up whole bricks, lost overboard from some coaster, that have come ashore with their edges smoothly rounded by the abrasion of the sand and sea.
Captain Golding, with a number of picked men and a guide, was ordered to assault the stronghold by break of day.
He stooped and picked up a silver coin, as bright as if struck within a twelvemonth.
Fragments of shot and shell have likewise been picked up among the rubbish of the old fortress.
Later in life he followed shore-fishing, and was once blown off to sea, where he was providentially picked up by a coaster bound to some Eastern port.
I saw one young girl who had picked enough in a week to bring her seven dollars.
I found shells of the deep-sea mussel, of quahaug and giant sea clam, bleaching there, but did not see the small razor-clam I have picked up on Nahant and other more southerly beaches.
Amber is sometimespicked up on the shores, they say, but none came to my share.
I picked up a plant having a long stalk, slender and hollow, of more than ten feet in length, resembling a gutta-percha tube.
A single gold coin, the only one found in the neighborhood of Castine, was picked up on the beach opposite the fort.
The pirates could expect little booty from the fishermen, but they often picked them up at sea to replenish their crews.
I had picked it with gloves, so that the smell of my hand was not on it.
A dozen times he stopped, went back, picked up the fresher trail, and went on again.
I took good pains to give them less than they wanted, and so had the satisfaction of feeding them often, and of finding their tin plate picked clean whenever I came back from fishing.
Finally she meandered a long way up the shore out of sight, and when I picked up the paddle to go, she came back again.
There he picked up the trail, followed over logs and rocks to the maple, up to the third branch, and across fifty yards of intervening branches to the giant spruce where his victim sat half paralyzed, watching from his crevice.
The line hissed away to the right, and almost at once pickedup a good-sized piece of seaweed.
He has at one time picked up as much as a bushel of herrings thus killed by a swordfish on Georges Banks.
The young ones showed no concern when I picked them up, save to dig into me with curious bills.
I picked out one group and turned my glass upon it.
She picked up Blackberry and laid her head against his velvety black fur.
You don't suppose the wind could have picked the money out of my hand, do you?
He's picked you for a sucker because you lent money to a stranger.
It wouldn't surprise me a bit if it picked me up and carried me away.
Young Blake van Pelt picked up a round gray can about an inch thick and a foot across, and sauntered out of the room.
Accordingly, one night, when it came on very dark, he manned his boat with a picked crew, and set out for a neighbouring fishing village.
As they expected, they found a boat, manned by a picked crew, waiting at the creek for their reception.
Cleave picked up her fallen book and smoothed the leaves.
A long, thin line of picked men, keen, watchful, the reserve a hundred yards or two behind, the skirmishers moved forward over a rough cart track and over the opposing banks.
His brother looked after him with troubled eyes, then with a sigh picked up the reins and followed Stafford toward the darkening east.
With a deep groan Steve picked up his shoes and dragged himself to the edge of the copse.
Marchmont picked up some pieces of gravel from the path and threw them against the window panes, to no effect.
General Cary picked her up, and, kneeling, brushed the dust from her frock, wooing her to smiles with a face and voice there was no resisting.
The light sank in his eyes; his face grew as it was before, and his fingers picked at the sheet.
Lieutenant Randolph picked him up--" "Found him under a bridge, sir.
Tell him to send a picked squad quietly across and find out what he can.
A courier dispatched in hot haste to warn the general there encountered and hurried forward a detachment of the 7th New York Cavalry as well as a small troop of picked men, led by a sometime aide of General Banks.
He cursed them, then, in a sudden panic, picked up his shoes and slipped out at the copse's back door.
Stafford left the artillery behind, slowly climbed another hill, and more slowly yet picked his way down the glassy slope.
Lots of the old houses were built of cedar, and I've heard of old cedar furniture to bepicked up here and there, as some people buy old oak out of English farm-houses.
But Jem, only conscious that she had no business there, picked up a stick nearly as big as himself, and trotted indignantly to drive her out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
