The son returns to be by his father's bedside, and finds that the old man has still a lot of pluck that he displays when his old friend turn up. |
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On this street, Eureka volunteer firefighters' rescue boats later would pluck at least 20 people to safety, many from their rooftops. |
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He let his fingernails grow long, the better to pluck his new classical guitar. |
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I watched her fingers pluck the strings gracefully, feeling her courage getting greater with the song. |
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Wendy couldn't help but admire the pluck and ingenuity these youngsters showed. |
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While she hints at the demons in Maya's past, she invests little intelligence or pluck in the character. |
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But their leaders were full of admiration for their pluck and cheerful acceptance of the conditions. |
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For example, this time last year you highlighted the sheer day-to-day pluck and dedication of young carers in the borough. |
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Bob used plenty of pluck and hard work to get started, and then he offered other businesses the chance to get started too. |
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Admiring her pluck and determination Clint reluctantly takes her on and a fascinating relationship of substitute father and daughter emerges. |
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Of course, not everyone has the pluck to become an entrepreneur, and most businesses fail before they get off the starting block. |
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Put the pluck into cold salted water, boil, then skim and simmer for 1 hour. |
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Reaching out he grasped the berry noticing it's plumpness, he tried his best to pluck it. |
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Don Quixote, covered with shame and out of countenance, ran to pluck the plume from his poor jade's tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. |
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She has to pluck up the courage to perform them at a songwriter's showcase if she is to have any hope at all of making it. |
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This week he also intends to pluck up the courage to visit his home, which is fenced off for safety reasons. |
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Exhausted helicopter crews scrambled to pluck desperate victims from trees, rooftops and electricity pylons. |
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With the help of a trusty pair of tweezers, pluck away at the hairs you want to eliminate. |
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It's easy, carefree and you don't have to have three shots to pluck up your courage to talk to someone. |
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I hope you are able to pluck up your courage, so that you can do what has to be done. |
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Occasionally they even pluck a walrus, beluga whale, or narwhal from the watery depths below the pack ice. |
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When women pluck up the courage to leave a violent or abusive relationship, they often find their abuser turns to the law, Tagg explained. |
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On the modern harp, players pluck the strings near the middle with the pads of their fingers. |
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The very nature of God-given expression makes room for people to hum, pluck, and jive while giving concerns over society's woes. |
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His legs were deeply lacerated, but his life was saved when a stranger managed to pluck him from the waters. |
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A thick gush of guitar and xylophonic pluck, the vocals are pushed up front for the first time. |
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I approached the fridge yesterday morning at breakfast with my arm aloft to pluck the box of choice from the cereal Manhattan above. |
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What other county final could pluck a sitting head of government from its archives and get him to write an appreciation from the heart? |
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She focused intently at it and as she watched, Doremi could see the figure inside begin to move and pluck a melody on the strings of the lute. |
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Most people nowadays do not wring chickens' necks, pluck them, and cook them for dinner, or butcher their own pigs, or gut their own fish. |
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They pluck out thick slices of tandoori chicken seared over flaming coals, dip them in mint chutney and stuff them into the mouth with passion. |
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Surely all these people didn't just pluck these things out of thin air and just put them down on paper! |
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Workers spray rose bushes, harvest stems, strip them of thorns and pluck the blemished petals. |
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It always helps to have someone point out where you've written gibberish and pluck out the spelling mistakes. |
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If you have strays within your bikini line, you can pluck them with tweezers or trim them very carefully with scissors. |
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Numerous methods are used for epilation, from tweezers to devices that pluck several hairs at once. |
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I despise how easily these extremists strive to pluck the mote out of someone else's eye while leaving the well-rooted tree that's in their own. |
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Their trunk is employed to pull branches off trees, uproot grass, pluck fruit, and to place food in their mouths. |
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I'd unpeg some jeans, a couple of socks, pluck off some undies, then shuffle back inside. |
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Obliviously, he wasn't expecting that, and was so surprised that he let go of me, and I was able to pluck the knife from his nerveless fingers. |
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He taught him how to hear and see the currents of magic flowing between all things and how to pluck them like the strings of a vielle. |
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Sibyl watched as Lady Plymouth's private troubadour began to instinctively pluck strings of the viol. |
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He bunted me with his huge head and then tried to pluck the buttons off my shirt. |
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She then proceeded to pluck Lucky from the puddle of mud and carry her into the barn. |
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So steadfast is Archer, that the West Indian is heard praising our hero's pluck and courage ever after. |
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It's not all brooding insolence though, there are glorious, uplifting love songs that pluck playfully at your heartstrings. |
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Ten minutes into darkness I felt a gentle pluck on the line, and striking, I connected with a powerful fish. |
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The mechanism that he winds with the handle to pluck the strings makes more noise than the actual musical notes of the strings themselves. |
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The 42-page comic can be read in a single sitting, though it'll take several sweeps to pluck out the myriad subtexts and visual motifs. |
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City pundits, keen to get you to trade more, will no doubt continue to pluck short-term price targets and price support levels out of thin air. |
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Pterodactyls could pluck swimsuited toddlers from the shoreline and folks would go right on fishing. |
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It's not like you can walk into your backyard and pluck a pina colada off the cocktail tree. |
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Pearl can also pluck vivid pictures out of the past of the polio epidemic, or infantile paralysis epidemic, as it was called in her day. |
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I want to smell a new fragrance, pluck a cherry tomato, pinch a mint leaf, experience the significance of life with each step. |
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Another project is to find out why double-crested cormorants tend to pluck catfish fingerlings out of some ponds but not others. |
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I watched the fishmongers pluck the fish from the tank, and take a knife to them. |
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Wherever you look, fish are jumping out of the placid water, landing with audible plips and plops, while ospreys swoop down to pluck up dinner. |
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They also want cheap labour to cut the sugar cane, pluck the chickens, pick the oranges, mow the lawns and make the beds. |
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Teen magazines are full of articles on how to lose weight, get the right hair highlights, pluck eyebrows effectively, and so on. |
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As it singes, it seals the ends of the hair so it doesn't grow back as quickly as when you wax or pluck it. |
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He held a pair of tweezers in his hand, debating whether or not to pluck away the three stray hairs between his eyebrows. |
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Wash the pluck and put in a pan of boiling water and boil for 1 hour. |
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Just to pluck at blind random one of the many very thorny Operation Relex circumstances from the bastardly murky and unexamined recent historical fray. |
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Perrin performed heroics to pluck it away from the top corner. |
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This is ladanum gum, which the goatherds pluck from their charges. |
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This is something that I can't get my head around, as I need to have the water around tepid tea temps before I can pluck up the courage to dip my toe in. |
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His youth, pluck and decisiveness were one of the major assets which made him different from the Communists whose radical slogans had never been translated into real actions. |
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President Reagan is showing an awful lot of pluck given this tragedy. |
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At 73 June sings those lyrics with the same determined pluck as she did at 9, revealing an artist whose hopefulness proved as solid and indefatigable as her voice. |
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While fast food restaurants require their workers to have a high school diploma, street vendors only need some cash and a bit of pluck to start up their business. |
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You have to pluck up your courage to express ideas that are not majority opinion, or to face the hostility or ridicule that may accompany departing from social norms. |
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His specialties are attracting the sympathy of the jury for his physical pluck and amusing it with his lively wit. |
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They were out at the crab-huts, awaiting the moment the crustacea shed their shells, to pluck them from watery trays and packed off to dinner-tables in New York and London. |
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I'm guessing the card holder is so that you can maintain professionalism in the office by having a misogynist doodad to pluck your business cards from. |
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Our family in general isn't very close, so there's nothing I can really do about that, and I'm still waiting for the right lady to pluck me out of my obscurity. |
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It is of vital importance to pluck one's eyebrows regularly. |
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In the movie, a young black man, through his pluck and determination, becomes a Canadian Mountie and buys a large ranch that earns him great financial success. |
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The easiest thing would be to pluck another exiled oligarch out of the sin bin. |
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Really need to pluck or get her eyebrows waxed or something. |
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A coupler allows the lower manual to pluck all three registers. |
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She's bringing my tweezers so I can pluck my eyebrows on the way there. |
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Rescuers managed to pluck the Dutch man from the stricken boat. |
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As a child back in the Little Town I could walk unerringly to the history section of the local library and pluck numerous volumes I'd read about World War II off the shelf. |
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When it comes to the players who are playing, you just pluck the low-hanging fruit. |
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As you finish reading this book, and you put it down, I urge you to pluck up your courage and tell me all you think about it, straight to my face. |
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Maintaining tight eye contact, the butlers pluck out audience members for a gripping, melancholic dance. |
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The eagles would seek out the nest sites by watching the parent pipits bringing in food before swooping down to pluck the wee fledglings out. |
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Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers to line the nest, but feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different. |
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Attempt to pluck up Alison aborted as deadly sea snake surfaces beside her. |
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I see him stand, jointlessly unfolding, pull from the holster on his hip the shingle knife, as easy as you'd pluck the fork beside your plate. |
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The sea otter may pluck snails and other organisms from kelp and dig deep into underwater mud for clams. |
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The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. |
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The bird has been dubbed Clucky by rescuers who used a net to pluck it to safety from the bin at Little Beckford, Worcs. |
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There are certain Quelea birds that have proved to be quite the opponents of progress as they pluck the rice once the area has been flooded. |
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The human urge to pluck a string and make music goes back many millennia. |
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Police threw a life buoy to the woman before the fireboat arrived to pluck her to safety. |
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One of Fox's first maneuvers is to pluck the drop cloth off a chair in the new office of Bobby Gould. |
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I can't pluck up courage to go and I don't have the nervous energy to stay. |
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Most often consisting of a budset pluck, a frost tea has the clarity and freshness of a white tea, with the richness and lingering finish of a finely crafted black tea. |
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He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck. |
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Money isn't everything in this world. Youth and love and pluck are the main things. Hang it, what if you do get into debt occasionally? You've got a pretty oofy father-in-law. |
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It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal. |
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Yet since I see you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you. |
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Macropodids may take small berries or seedheads entirely into the mouth, grip the stalk, and pluck off the seedhead against the upper or lower incisors. |
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Every ten minutes they consulted together as to who could pluck up the courage to ask some passer-by the time. The passers-by were all back street people. |
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Pluck any hairs outside this line using tweezers with slanted ends, and always use a magnifying mirror so you don't pinch the skin, or miss any errant hairs. |
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Pluck has taken pleasure in interacting with his Filipino co-workers, citing that he looks forward to eating lunch with his new friends every day. |
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Numerous readers can be downloaded from the Internet, including AmphetaDesk, Bloglines, FeedReader, RssReader and Pluck. |
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Pluck a pebble from a mountain and pretend the mountain is gone. |
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