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Usage examples of picnic.

Friday night in the Astrodome -- was as wild, glamorous and exciting as an Elks Club picnic on Tuesday in Salina, Kansas.

There was a pleasing serenity about the great pompous battle scene with its solemn courtly warriors bestriding their heavily prancing steeds, grey or skewbald or dun, all gravely in earnest, and yet somehow conveying the impression that their campaigns were but vast serious picnics arranged in the grand manner.

On this lovely Saturday in the early afternoon, the tourists and even what appeared to be some locals were out in droves, enjoying the Marina district, escorting hordes of children through the Exploratorium, eating gourmet picnic items and feeding the ducks in the lake with the leftovers.

The Cadi undoubtedly was more at home with reminiscences of nights at the Queensland Club and moonlight picnics at lovely Humpy Bong and champagne spreads in a Government launch than at dispensing law in the Carpentaria district.

Out on the malpais that day they went on the picnic, it had blown around her face.

Agatha had missed in her rummage through the picnic basket, Melrose drove through Ilkley.

Then Dallas would shovel the opened oysters onto picnic tables covered with newspapers and the perfume of those washed-down mollusks gave off a silvery, slightly metallic musk of a rained-on acre of spartina.

Even if the fight be stopped by the Parramatta traps, Maggie promises we shall have us a lovely picnic.

Yes, the Bradys used to picnic frequently on the moors, somewhere near Penistone, and sometimes they slept the night there, in the car or outside wrapped in blankets.

Ochsner, physiotherapist, his wife, and two children were having a picnic.

While Angelina slipped into something picnicky, I slipped the picnic hamper into the hoverfloat-humming happily as I did so for we had been working too hard of late.

During the heat of the day we rested in this pleasant grove, and with sleep and conversation passed the hours away, while the sentries pacing to and fro alone disturbed the illusion that this was some picnic party in a more propitious land.

He considered the remnants of a solitary picnic, bits of eggshell broken off by the fingers of another solitary hiker who had sat here a few minutes ago, and a crumpled plastic bag into which a succession of rapid feminine hands had once conveyed with tiny tongs white apple roundlets, black prunes, nuts, raisins, the sticky mummy of a banana - all this digested by now.

So, took lights, blankets, linen, plenty of picnic, the whole schmeer, and went to work.

Eternal Emperor scanned the vast picnic grounds of Arundel with growing disappointment as he added a final dash of this and splurt of that to his famous barbecue sauce.