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Sentences starting with pluck

Pluck me a half-blown lily-bud, A long-stemmed lily from the lake, Cold as a coiling water-snake. [6]

Sentences ending with pluck

He was a wild one, I can tell you, and she's got pluck. [9]
It is twelve hundred miles to the Sandwich Islands; the provisions are virtually exhausted, but not the perishing diarist's pluck. [5]
I rather liked her pluck. [4]
Higli Pasha would have done it, if it had ever occurred to him; and he'd had the pluck. [11]
No one else had the pluck. [11]

Short sentences using pluck

No pluck, no pence. [11]
His pluck gave me back-bone. [5]
His pluck proved it. [5]

More example sentences with the word pluck in them

It has never yet granted me any great, complete success, and if I was occasionally permitted to pluck a flower, my hands were pricked by thorns and nettles! [10]
But discretion, as well as pluck, is required when one fights Boers and Red Indians. [5]
It was all very well (so said the first spokesman) to pluck a few feathers from a bird so bountifully endowed as the Honourable Adam, but were not two gentlemen who should be nameless carrying the joke a little too far? [9]
He shines most upon such small expeditions as the exploration of the Chesapeake; then his energy, self-confidence, shrewdness, inventiveness, had free play, and his pluck and perseverance are recognized as of the true heroic substance. [4]
Midnight saw a united community, full of zeal and pluck, and with a clearly defined and welcome piece of work in front of it. [5]
I am resigned to take the $8,500 if it could come in bank-notes--for it does seem that it was so ordered, Mary--but I have never had much courage, and I have not the pluck to try to market a cheque signed with that disastrous name. [5]
And what was to restrain him from reaching out his hand to pluck the fruit which he desired? [9]
Tom begged her to pluck up hope again, and she said she could not. [5]
He had attempted to pluck many flowers in his day, and had not been unsuccessful. [11]
However, they had their merits; the Romans exhibited the higher pluck, but the Kanakas showed the sounder judgment. [5]
First it knocks the pluck out of him and drags his pride in the dirt; worry does the rest, and his mind gets shaky. [5]
If pluck were the only thing essential to battle-winning, the English would lose no battles. [5]
Give a man the merest trifle of pluck to start with, and by the time he has become a pilot he cannot be unmanned by any danger a steamboat can get into; but one cannot quite say the same for judgment. [5]
The pluck of the man was superb. [9]
But to pluck the flowers and fruit which the Lord caused to grow and ripen for every one was a different thing, and had never troubled her conscience. [10]
One must respect the business-brain that produced it--the splendid pluck and impudence that ventured to promulgate it, anyway. [5]
If Philotas imagined that he could pluck the daughter of Archias like a ripe fruit from a tree, he would find himself mistaken. [10]
It has to tally up a hundred against one before it can pump up pluck enough to tackle a sick tailor. [5]
And what a spectacle it must have been to see this grim veteran, solitary and alone in his pride and his pluck, glowering down on his Mormon jury and Mormon auditory, deriding them by turns, and by turns "breathing threatenings and slaughter! [5]
Without looking round she ran to a flower-bed, to pluck some roses. [10]
I could have saved him, and--and--well, you know how the town was wrought up--I hadn't the pluck to do it. [5]
He was a rough, honest creature, full of pluck, and just as full of hard-headed simplicity, too. [5]
Never did man pluck up his courage so quickly, or look so fierce, as Mr Chuckster when he found it was he. [12]
Shall it but pluck the sleeve of wantonness, And gently chide the folly of our time? [11]
She had the pluck of a woman. [11]
Where is the place where there is twenty-five times more manhood, pluck, true heroism, unselfishness, devotion to high and noble ideals, adoration of liberty, wide education, and brains, per thousand of population, than any other domain in the whole world can show? [5]
Some of the others liked him, and all admired his pluck and spirit. [5]
Mr. Sutro, the originator of this prodigious enterprise, is one of the few men in the world who is gifted with the pluck and perseverance necessary to follow up and hound such an undertaking to its completion. [5]
I started three or four times before I finally got my pluck to where it would stick. [5]
Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country. [5]
If a brave officer kept on courageously till his pluck was proven, some pliant Buchanan or Pierce would remove him and appoint a stick in his place. [5]
But I pulled my pluck together and pushed on. [5]
There hain't a man of ye has the pluck of this little shaver that beats the drum. [9]
My only wish is, sir, that you may calmly and dispassionately look at the situation of the case, and if your better judgment should dictate otherwise, my obligations may induce me to pluck the flower that you so diametrically opposed. [5]
The new case is the very opposite; it is this: men all on fire with pluck and dash and vim and fury and energy--a restrained conflagration! [5]
Every nerve in his body seemed to pluck at the angry flesh. [11]
He had thought he might have to wait long or come often for the perfect opportunity; but it seemed as if Fate played his game for him, and that once again the fruit he would pluck should fall into his palm. [11]
This vast donkey had some pluck, of a slow and sluggish nature, but a soft heart; at one time he would knock a horse down for some impropriety, and at another he would get homesick and cry. [5]
If the governor had possessed Smith's pluck, he would have held on till the arrival of Grenville. [4]
The Hallers' garden had not its like in all Nuremberg, and my dear parents-in-law had promised that we should pluck all we needed for our posies. [10]
Both saw a great deal of active service during the war, and achieved high reputations for pluck and capacity. [5]
The latter was full of pluck, and so was his passenger. [5]
Now she sat down on her rough wooden seat, and said, while she proceeded to pluck a lapwing: "Now I understand you; you wish to be revenged. [10]
They argued and discussed among themselves, with Noel listening, and arrived at the decision that Joan was a witch, and had her strange pluck and strength from Satan; so they made a plan to watch for a safe opportunity to take her life. [5]
War was part chance, part common sense, part the pluck and luck of the devil. [11]
They had not brains or courage enough to keep them out of gaol, and they have not pluck or brains enough to succeed--afterwards. [11]
He was not blind to the fact that his money might be a "factor", but, as he said to himself, his millions were a part of him--they represented, like whist-counters, so much pluck and mother-wit. [11]
Still I don't believe in any aristocracy without pluck as its backbone. [6]
The Kalmucks are beardless, and they are well known, like the Americans, to pluck out all straggling hairs; and so it is with the Polynesians, some of the Malays, and the Siamese. [1]
The enthralled but bashful sailor carried the letter in his pocket till it was worn out, without ever being able to summon pluck enough to deliver it. [4]
This duke and baron have merely stopped to pluck a bird; it matters not whether or not the bird is an erstwhile friend--he has been outlawed by highest authority, and is fair game. [9]
With Scotch patience and pluck he resolved to live down his reputation and work his way into the legal field yet. [5]
The fruit of all wholesome strife must be peace; let us pluck that fruit, Gorgo, and enjoy it together. [10]
Within six years after Patay he was leading storming parties himself; fighting in fortress ditches up to his waist in water, and climbing scaling-ladders under a furious fire with a pluck that would have satisfied even Joan of Arc. [5]
Harry, champion, by acclamation, of the college heavy-weights, broad-shouldered, bull-necked, square-jawed, six feet and trimmings, a little science, lots of pluck, good-natured as a steer in peace, formidable as a red-eyed bison in the crack of hand-to-hand battle! [6]
They also threatened a young missionary, who was left for a time with them, to strip him naked, and pluck the hair from his face and body, yet he was far from being a hairy man. [1]
Do thou pluck a maniple--that is an handful--of the plant called Maidenhair, and make a syrup therewith as I have shewed thee. [3]
It would be a fine bit of pluck to try and cut his way through the Arabs to the Nile--but how many would reach it? [11]

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