Philipson was about to reply, but the friar, retaining his character of mediator, plucked him by the cloak, and entreated him to forbear.
I'll have her face flayed; her hair shall be plucked up by the roots;" and she stamped with her little foot.
They went to the hut that Bevis might read how Ulysses constructed his ship or raft, and while they were looking for the book saw the duck which they hadplucked the evening before.
I never saw a man fly into such a rage; I thought he was going to knock me down; but after standing speechless awhile, he all at once plucked his cap from his head and threw it at me.
Who would bruise the poorest reed of Pan, though plucked from a beggar's hedge, would insult the melodious god himself.
He could scarce believe his eyes when he found that a twig of an oak, which he plucked from the branch, became gold in his hand.
So the Swallow plucked out the Prince's eye, and flew away to the student's garret.
In a moment he had reached the slope east of Valhal, had plucked a twig of the unsworn Mistletoe, and was back in the circle of the gods, who were still at their favorite pastime with Balder.
But she admired him so much she could not leave the spot, and at last she even plucked up courage enough to ask him, "What is the name of the most beautiful being in the whole world?
So he plucked out the Prince's other eye, and darted down with it.
The little ones stood quite silent, but only for a minute; then they shouted till the room rang: they danced gleefully round the Tree, and one present after another was plucked from it.
So saying, the dwarf stooped and plucked a lily that grew at his feet.
To the warm airs of the day the windows, high and low, were open; a look of throng life was over the house, and in-by some one pluckedangrily at the strings of a harp.
Rory plucked his belts tight, took out the good blade wondrous quiet, breathing fast and heavy.
He was stirring up the logs with the shod of a crutch and humming a Perth song, and before the hottest of the fire a plucked bird was roasting.
Sometimes these luminous hours come through the affections, when anticipations of joy are so bright that it seems as if the youth reaching forward had plucked beforehand the fruit from the very tree of life.
So for the great jurist imagination reached up even into the heavenly armory andplucked such weapons as the hero needed.
He had spoken quite naturally, but there was a ring in it that told of immense possibilities behind, and there was something in it that plucked at some hidden chord of Jean's memory and set it humming as a harp-string responds to a bugle note.
The sailors plucked up heart at once, but the brown men were very subdued and silent.
But as time passed, and one false alarm was succeeded by another, Jack plucked up a little heart.
No, no, we want to hear you, we want to," a few voices from the front row plucked up spirit to exclaim at last.
She rarely plucked up courage to enter his room, though he behaved courteously to her, but dryly, and only talked to her of what was necessary.
But, both feathered and plucked bipeds, it seems, it is equally hard to please.
He plucked a bit of sweetbrier and put it to his nose, which still retained the shine of that bleaching ointment Noel had insisted on his using.
With one hand she plucked at her blouse, just over her heart.
His wife plucked nervously at a fold in her red gown, and gave him the look of a dog that has been rebuked.
The Duke still continued plucking the bird, and when he had done so to his heart's content, made answer: "Thou askest me why I pluckedthis hawk!
Thus have you done by me: I am young, you have plucked me at your good pleasure, and because I was young I knew not how to complain, but bear in mind that for the future I shall pluck you.
So I waited and waited only for this: for love of me to take deep hold of your heart, to be dearer than life, before I plucked it up by the roots; and to laugh in your face as I did it, knowing it worse than any death.
Christian, exasperated, plucked for a free hand, and a tightened grip set him struggling for one instant with the natural indignation of young blood at rude constraint.
She was not gentle then, nor cared for his hurts; with quick mastery of him while he cowered and winced in nerveless collapse, she discovered and plucked away his naked paramour.
He plucked an arm free, and his neck was circled instead.
She plucked it back, aware of a desperate peril, vague, awful, alluring to destruction, like a precipice yawning under night.
The Hesperides were directed to watch these trees, but they proved unfaithful, and frequently plucked the apples for themselves.
They pluckedthe helago, or hedge hyssop, barefooted, and without a knife, after ablutions, and offerings of bread and wine.
So he plucked her, and sticking her upon a spit, he made a great fire, and set to work to roast her.
And when they were grown larger, he plucked them; and shutting himself up in a chamber, with a large basin of water and the knife, which he always carried at his side, he began to cut the citrons.
So when the ogress went out she could not restrain herself any longer, but plucked a handful of it.
Cianna, looking like a plucked quail at the fault she had committed, begged pardon of her brothers, and offered to go round the world until she should find the dwelling of the old woman.
I'm a big bully, and you're the best pluckedlittle fellow this side of Kingdom Come!
He hurried to the mantel, plucked something from it, then leaped nimbly thence to a front window and crouched behind its curtains, his posture tense.
They had better have held their tongues, or plucked them out; for in a fury of vengeance he let loose his bloodthirsty bands on the city.
And his whisper plucked back the others to the world of danger.
Will God, who plucked us out of the clutch of Kilidge Arslan and Kerbogha, suffer us to fail at the last?
The Greek was too faint to do anything; but Morgiana rapidly plucked the curtain from the doorway, tore into strips, knotted about the dwarf's arms and feet.
Two bounds, it seemed, plucked him out of that circle of death; with the long way clear, and the press behind.
But Godfrey plucked up a low ebony table, tore three legs clear, holding the table-top by the fourth before him as a shield, and dashed the other three amongst the foe.
And may He who plucked the three children from the fire, and Daniel from the paw of the lion, and Peter from the dungeon of Herod, deliver you also, and her whom you seek!
The lady plucked at the Berber's throat with strength born of despair.
I have ever loved you, truly as ever man loved, from the hour I saw your face, and heard your voice, when we plucked you from the Berbers.
Ismaelians as they swept around Mary's captors, almost ere the luckless bandits could strike spur; and it was Iftikhar's own hand that plucked Mary from the clutch of Yezid.
Death's icy fingers plucked the rose, But could not steal the grand repose Which adds such pure, celestial charms To this pale form, clasped in his arras.
And shall these humble pages dare Presume to ask, if they compare With that fair, fragrant, precious gem, Plucked from cold winter's diadem?
Julia, let fond remembrance cling Around the parting hour; Unfading let that garland be, Late plucked from friendship's bower.
We retire beneath the sacred shade of some ancient forest, and look upon nature as she stands forth arrayed in all the charms of her primeval beauty; where art has never plucked her native bloom, and tinged her cheek with carmine.
Our hospitable host pluckedfreely of the choicest for the benefit of his chance visitors.
The mangrove-trees extend their roots from the shore into the sea, to which the oysters affix themselves, growing and thriving until plucked by the fishermen.
The feathers of these fighting-cocks are closely cropped in a jaunty style; the neck and head, to the length of three inches, is completely plucked of all feathers, the comb being trimmed close to the crown.
The circumstances had been too strong--jealousy had taken too firm a hold to be plucked out by mere assurances.
Then, taking the sapling out of my hand, he plucked it up and flung it away.
Some plucked the ripe clusters from Italian vineyard.
And this Jesus they plucked by the beard, and they spat in his face, and they called him "this fellow!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plucked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
