Prince needing good fortune and courage

Usage examples of pluck.

She tried to ignore the dizzying perspective plucking at her peripheral vision over the low sides of the pod and concentrated instead on the stress and acceleration vectors graphically represented on her screen.

Without care or consideration of ahimsa, Danlo reached up to the lowest branch of the tree above the bench, and he plucked off a single leaf.

With a deft movement, she plucked the skirt off Alise and slid it back on, dropping it down over her head.

But to beings like the Ambassadress the occasional parasite plucked from their own plumage is like a salted peanut is to us.

Her mother was spinning, her aunt Amice plucked flower petals for a perfume, and her aunt Felice played her harp.

Jane reached around Amy to pluck a locket on a blue ribbon off the dressing table.

She gave her full attention to the Araba handsome, dark-skinned man with a full mustache but a hairless chin, which he plucked meticulously every evening, to the wincing fascination of her men.

It was as if I had been plucked from an almost paradisial world and dropped into an alternative universe where much was the same, but everything was tinged by horror and nightmare.

She could not sit like a duck on a pond all night, so Ava carefully began to persuade Lady Purnam to have her new barouche plucked from the stream of carriages outside to drive Ava home.

After a minute or so of such foolery, Miles plucked the four axolotls out and handed them to Dooly, who was rather at a loss over what to do with them.

These and sundry other sins having duly been confessed, the badger bade the fox chastise himself with a switch plucked from the hedge, lay it down in the road, jump over it thrice, and then meekly kiss that rod in token of obedience.

I would have plucked the fruit, she clasped me to her arms, crossed her legs, and began to weep bitterly.

She plucked her tiny microphone off her bikini top and tossed it into the swimming pool.

Charlie Weller, who was allowed to bivouac with the veterans because they liked him, plucked a head of soaking wet rye and shook his head sadly.

Renunciates are either plucked chickens who cannot make up their minds, or bossy roosters in skirts.