He rushes to Broadbent; plucks at his sleeve with trembling fingers; and pours forth his entreaty with all the brogue be can muster, subduing his voice lest Doyle should hear and return].
She hesitates and plucks nervously at the heather.
This is the hope that buoys his latest breath, Stanches the wound, and plucks the sting from death.
She plucks the withered leaf from the balsam, and looks at the grass-covered rampart, on which many children are playing.
There is one among the fowls who has so far forgotten what is becoming to a hen that sheplucks out all her feathers and lets the cock see it.
In the Siebenbuergen of Saxony, the belief exists that at the moment when an infant dies in the house, Death passes like a shadow into the garden, and there plucks a flower.
But at that precise moment a demon plucks it from its stalk.
I am about it, but indeed my invention Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frieze; It plucks out brains and all.
O, such a deed As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul, and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words!
That's likewise part of my intelligence; but, I fear, the angle that plucks our son thither.
He plucks it out of his bosom, and reads it] Treason, foul treason!
Devilish Macbeth By many of these trains hath sought to win me Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me From over-credulous haste.
Where the brown duck strips her breast, For her dear eggs and windy nest, Three times her bitter spoil is won For woman; and when all is done She calls her snow-white piteous drake, Who plucks his bosom for our sake.
Now, however, her own stock of down is exhausted, and with a plaintive voice she calls her mate to her assistance, who willingly plucks the soft feathers from his breast to supply the deficiency.
MORE smiles down at her, and she swiftly plucks the knife from the belt of a Boy Scout beside her] Smile, you--cur!
She plucks that journal from out of the armchair and hands it to CLARE, who sits doom again unhappily to brood.
Perseverance is a Roman virtue, That wins each godlike act, and plucks success E'en from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger.
Where streams among the valleys shine, Of Southern-woods she plucks the white; And brings it to the sacred shrine, To aid our prince in solemn rite.
As she reaches the couch of the magician she plucks forth a dagger and would have bloody murder.
Her husband plucks her by the arm, and then, as his brother questions her too closely, the man wavers to the side of his wife.
Perseverance is a Roman virtue that wins each godlike act, and plucks success even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger.
Pardon me, but I'm in a hurry," he says, as the other pluckshis sleeve.
The swallow shadows the mosquito, and in the end plucks out its tongue so that it shall not be able to tell.
OVER the meadows, and down the stream, And through the garden-walks straying, He plucks the flowers that fairest seem; His throbbing heart brooks no delaying.
And when she plucks a flow'ret blue, And says "Forget-me-not!
Line-Art Drawing 246 The Tin-Woodman Plucks a Rose The Army of Glinda the Good looked very grand and imposing when it assembled at daybreak before the palace gates.
This abyss is periodically filled with fresh snows, which freeze to the rock; then, as the glacier moves away, it tears or plucks out the frost-split fragments from the wall.
Of these lovely fabrics of pithy pulpiness, no limit to the dose, if the invalid does as Nature intended, and plucks for himself, with fingers rosy and fragrant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plucks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
