the nurse , pickingpickup the cork of the green bottle , which had fallenfallout on the pillow , as she stoopedstoopto take up the child .
As I sawseehim gogo, pickingpickhis way among the nettles , and among the brambles that bound the green mounds , he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people , stretching up cautiously out of their graves , to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in .
The two sailors pickedpickthemselves up , the older man assistingassisthis wounded comrade to rise .
There was a look of exasperation on his usually patient face , and a muttered oathoath, pickedpickup no doubt on the godless Stock Exchange , escaped his lips .
He jumpedjumpout of the box , shookshakehimself , pickedpickout one or two straws that had foundfindtheir way into rents in his clothes , and , drawingdrawa well-worn cap over his uncombed locks , he was all ready for the business of the day .
But the saloon-keeper let him alone , and in the morning four men enteredenterand pickedpickup the crate .
The morning of Powell 's departuredeparturewas , like nearly all Arizona mornings , clear and beautiful ; I could seeseehim and his little pack animals pickingpicktheir way down the mountainside toward the valley , and all during the morning I would catch occasional glimpsesglimpseof them as they toppedtopa hog back or camecomeout upon a level plateau .
I stood upon the hearth-rug and pickedpickup the stick which our visitor had leftleavebehind him the night before .
I had just pickedpickup the notion that equality is good from some book -- probably from poetry , or you .
Tom 's younger brother ( or rather half-brother ) Sid was already throughthroughwith his part of the work ( pickingpickup chips ) , for he was a quiet boy , and had no adventurous , trouble-some ways .
She had pickedpickit up carelessly , with a slight yawnyawnwhich she pattedpatdown with her finger-tips as delicately as a cat .
But presently I lookedlookover my shoulder , and sawseehim goinggoon again towards the river , still hugginghughimself in both arms , and pickingpickhis way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there , for stepping-places when the rains were heavy or the tide was in .