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Sentences ending with plucked

He went through on that purely superficial 'cram', and got compliments, too, while others, who knew a thousand times more than he, got plucked. [5]
He invariably roused himself, or his professor roused him, a half-hour before the papers should be handed in, and, as it were by a mathematical calculation, he had always done just enough to prevent him being plucked. [11]
Headless, legless, and carefully plucked! [10]

Short sentences using plucked

Dormy plucked at his sleeve. [11]
Dormy plucked at his coat. [11]

More example sentences with the word plucked in them

First came a wreath of roses and lotos-flowers, looking as if they had been plucked just before sunrise, for among the blossoms and leaves there flashed and sparkled a glittering dew of diamonds, lightly fastened on delicate silver wires. [10]
At first it was only as though a wind stirred the air of dreams, then it was like the sounds that gather behind the coming rage of a storm, and again it was as though a night- prowler plucked at the sleeve of a home-goer. [11]
You are always wanting to know what he is looking for in his big books, so I plucked up courage to ask him, and now I know. [10]
Once he plucked up courage and said imploringly as he went close up to the Emperor: "Go down earlier to-night my lord; you really do not allow yourself enough rest and will injure your health. [10]
So Johanna plucked two of the fairest blooms and gave them to the maiden--one for the man who had injured her and one for her betrothed. [10]
Rut one gets tired of the strings of questions sent him, to which he is expected to return an answer, plucked, ripe or unripe, from his private tree of knowledge. [6]
The damsel gave the student one shy glance in retiring; but it plucked the heart out of his bosom! [4]
I plucked at the king's robe and we drew back and took shelter behind the corner of the cabin. [5]
She had seen the Junker's plucked present, and continued in an altered tone: "So you already have a pigeon--so much the better! [10]
He plucked forth that knife, and kneeling by the body of his lost one, swore to 'consecrate his life to the extermination of all the human scum that bear the hated name of Lynch. [5]
He plucked the sweetest bud that grew there, and having enjoyed its odor, trampled it in the mire beneath his feet. [5]
I plucked a stout switch from a tamarind tree, and the moment he saw it, he surrendered. [5]
He was afraid, somehow, of Beaton's taking the matter in the cynical way; Miss Woodburn said she would break off the engagement if Beaton was left to guess it or find it out by accident, and then Fulkerson plucked up his courage. [8]
How inspiriting to see with what muscular, masculine vigor this splendid Fleming rushed in and plucked up drowning Art by the locks when it was sinking in the trashy sea of such creatures as the Luca Giordanos and Pietro Cortonas and the like. [6]
Suddenly some one plucked him by the arm from a doorway. [11]
Yet the demands of the market, competition, and fashion often cause it to be plucked and shipped while green. [4]
In the course of the day's business the Order of "Reports of Committees" was finally reached and when the weary crowds heard that glad announcement issue from the Speaker's lips they ceased to fret at the dragging delay, and plucked up spirit. [5]
And when the neighbours wandered home, I was the guest that tarried, An hour plucked from Paradise--come back to me, Rosleen! [11]
They plucked the long grass and nettles from the tombs, thinned the poor shrubs and roots, made the turf smooth, and cleared it of the leaves and weeds. [12]
And now the last of its blossoms is to be plucked, and the bare stem, stripped of its ever maturing and always welcome appendages, is reduced to the narrowest conditions of reproductive existence. [6]
They plucked me last night," came Denisov's voice from the next room. [2]
So I plucked it, and have mailed it to her with a note. [5]
The demand for intellectual labor is so enormous and the market so far from nice, that young talent is apt to fare like unripe gooseberries,--get plucked to make a fool of. [6]
Truth to tell, in this battle he had fought for victory for his ship and a fall for himself: for the fruit he had plucked was turning to dust and ashes. [11]
The deadly weapon in their bands was to them only a valuable utensil in which they delighted, and with which fruits were plucked from the trees. [10]
The firs, where Iberville and Gering had just plucked out their swords, were not far, and both men heard. [11]
So at last I plucked up courage and tipped the head clerk a signal. [5]
The centurion greeted her respectfully; but it was not till Nernesianus asked him how it was that the troops had been called to arms at this hour, that Martialis plucked up courage and begged the lady of the house to grant him an interview. [10]
Each had a half-opened rose stuck in between his cuirass and shirt of mail on the left breast, plucked, as the charming Daphnion had assured them, from a bush which had been introduced from Persia only the year before. [10]
A year elapsed, came winter's frost and snow, 'Twas rarely now we saw the bright sun shine, I plucked up courage and cried: "Be it so! [10]
As for not being plucked, I, at least, unfortunately have not experienced this. [10]
But as he bade her good-bye, he plucked up needful courage. [11]
He knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green. [2]
At length with a supreme effort they plucked up courage to come again to the table, one holding out the belt of peace, and the other the still smouldering pipe. [9]
He never took a dice-box in his hand, or held a card, but he was plucked, pigeoned, and cleaned out completely. [12]

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