Night after night the troops who were "resting" crept with their picks and shovels along the beach, to make the necessary road.
Here the last stand would be made if the worst came, but the morning broke and the outer line was still intact; picks were laid aside and the indomitable men of Anzac again took up their rifles to face the trials of the day.
So it happens that a multiplicity of men, with primitive picks and shovels, are available for any necessary work.
Where the rock is loose, or disintegrated, the pieces can generally be readily separated by picks and bars without having to resort to any great extent of blasting.
Its food is chiefly composed of worms, insects, and grubs; but on the coast the bird picks up a variety of creatures from the sands.
Let my blessed child, who is too ill to sit at table and picks her bite!
How little Miss Cann can go on and keep alive on the crumb she eats for breakfast, and the scrap she picks at dinner, du astonish Mrs. Ridley, that it du!
A joiner was kept almost constantly employed in fitting the picks to their handles, which, as well as the points to the irons, were very frequently broken.
A third forge was, however, put in operation during a short time, for the greater conveniency of sharpening the picks and irons, and for purposes connected with the preparations for fixing the railways on the rock.
They were employed in sharpening the picks and irons for the masons, and in making bats and other apparatus of various descriptions connected with the fitting of the railways.
The number of picks per inch is indicative of the closeness of the weave; for example, a high class Wilton has about 13½ picks per inch.
Some combine the plain colors of the sofa and chair in a figured third chair which has a neutral background and picks up the colors of the other two pieces.
The use of a figured pattern in one room, and in the adjoining room a plain fabric which picks up and repeats the dominant color in the ground color or in the figures of the pattern produces a lively result, pleasing and effective.
Alone by the shore he picks up a bottle In it is a complaint about his office!
In the same way I may suggest changes of the surroundings; he may take my room for the river upon which he paddles his canoe, or for the orchard in which he picks apples from my bookshelves.
This library may then become a garden where the hypnotized person picks flowers from the floor, and the wise man stands on one leg and repeats the alphabet, if the hypnotizer asks him to do so.
To prevent this occurring men are kept in the ends of all the passages listening for the tap-tap of the picks that spells danger!
As we moved forward and lay down we could hear the thudding of the picks as they were driven into the ground, and from somewhere in the darkness ahead the plick-plock of the sniper began.
When the blades were made larger, the curved form would come into existence, being suggested by the deer-horn picksalready in use.
So we ups and hog ties the old natural, picks him up with a pair of tongs and dips him in the crick.
We picks him up a mile or two out of Shoestring and his hoss is just driftin' along no'th with him while he's slumped up on the seat.
Usually it is a daily transfer of prisoners, and usually the sheriff's office sends up there and picks them up on routine prisoners.
The process is continuous in that the control, for instance a White House policeman goes and picks up, when the food is picked up.
In its native state the Pine Grosbeak feeds upon the seeds of the fir-trees, which it picks out of the open cones or gleans from the ground.
Passing the solitary woman on the bridge she picks a beautiful flower from the bouquet she is carrying and tosses it at her feet, for she wishes to-day to make all whom she sees as happy as herself.
She stoops reverently and picks it up; almost hesitatingly as if afraid her touch will soil its purity, and placing it tenderly by the side of the bridal flower she walks slowly from the church.
None attempted to sleep, and as soon as it became light they took picks and shovels and started up the valley.
We must take two picks and a shovel, a hammer for breaking up ore, a small furnace, twenty crucibles and bellows, and a few other things for aiding to melt the ore.
As soon as it was dark he set two men to break a way with picks through the wall of the patio, at a spot where there was a window.
If a historian or philosopher picks up this book, he will find much with which to quarrel, but for the survey of so hard-to-define a subject, this may be a forgivable fault.
Sound propaganda picks only those group issues which are acute enough to stand a little help from outside.
At times he would remain with breast down and pick at the flies much as a dusting fowl picks up a stray grain.
The bird is quite active while searching for food and seldom remains more than a few seconds in a spot, where it constantly picks here and there for the minute organisms which form its food.
The player who made the successful guess nowpicks up the game-reeds and behind his back shuffles and divides them.
There he picks it up and puts it back in the center of the circle.
When the edge of the circle is reached he picks up the ball and returns it to the center.
The Umpire pauses a moment at the center of the circle, then he picks up the ball lying there and throws it into the air as high as he can.
After that he picks up a stick with each hand and lays down the stick that he has in his right hand on his left side, the stick that he has in his left hand he lays down on his right side.
They's no breaking up and enriching land that ain't never bore nothing but buffalo-grass, without I have picks and spades and plows and harrers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
