She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.

Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom.

She picked her own Middle-Eastern friends from the flock of ardent Egyptians that buzzed around her.

Houston police got to know Diane two years ago when the vice squad picked her up for questioning about a call girl ring.

All through July the Discovery picked her way along the 450-mile-long strait, avoiding ice and rocky islands.

Silently, Elaine picked up her keys from the table and went out into the cockpit, Poet behind her, Nick trailing behind him.

She picked up the baby and nuzzled her fat warm little neck.

When she picked up the receiver, her mother's cheerful voice was there.

I could see the ancient cynicism reinforce itself in her eyes, and I wondered how many men she had picked up with this same gambit.

Instantaneously he would have won an immeasurable moral victory, for if she picked up, say, a pair of her panties, she might just as well lift his shorts lying alongside -- the expenditure of energy was almost the same.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

After her release, Pasternak's relationship with Ivinskaya picked up where it had left off.

Dryope wanted to give the blossoms to her baby to play with, but when she picked one the tree started to tremble and bleed.

Two witnesses who had originally testified in her grand jury indictment had died by the time she was found and brought to trial: a plumber who had sold materials used in the bomb had picked Soliah out of a lineup as one of the buyers, and a bomb expert had stated the explosive could have been built in Soliah's apartment.

In one case, Beria picked up a well-known actress under the pretense of bringing her to perform for the Politburo ; instead, he took her to his dacha, promised to free her father and grandmother from NKVD prison if she submitted, and then raped her, telling her " Scream or not, doesn't matter.

He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream.

He picked up the powder canister and ran out.

Curt moved in and picked up his gun.

He stooped, picked up his ruined hat, and pursed his lips thoughtfully.

Artie had picked up a snorkle and was twirling it on his forefinger.

Charles said as they picked their way over the rocky road which led up the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn field and a patch of woods to the school.

They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

What obsessions had she picked up during these long nights of talk??

From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

He would ship by rail five pounds per day per animal and the other fifteen pounds that were needed could be picked up off the country.

She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.

Both Willy Brandt's Social Democrats, who gained 22 seats in the new parliament, and the Free Democrats, who picked up 23, will insist on that before they enter the government.

To avoid suspicion of bigotry, let the hand of vengeance be stayed until the meat-wagon has picked up the twenty-five thousandth corpse ; ;

His stethoscope was on the table by Scotty's bed and he picked it up and wagged it at Scotty.

She smoothed the covers on Scotty's bed and picked things up from the floor.

`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.

When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.

He picked up the photograph and began to wrap it.

I look like an old man, compared '', and he had picked up his photograph with the red Christmas bow still on it.

Photograph shows the wrong side of work with light strand being picked up under dark strand in position to be purled.

After the contestant had been interviewed, they picked one of five ' sliding doors ' on the board, each of which contained a different amount of money.

He had picked out this pathless trail, instead of the common one, in a moment of romantic fancy, to give them privacy on their honeymoon.

It's infuriating, this feeling that one is being picked on, continually, constantly.

The cleansing tissues she had been using had been falling on the floor, and he got up and picked up one, then another, hoping she would notice what he was doing.

If no address is provided, one is picked at random from the " base subnet ", 0.

Chaplin strongly disliked the picture, but one review picked him out as " a comedian of the first water.

However, outfielder Ellis Burks picked up the slack with an All-Star season, batting. 344 with 40 homers and 128 RBI — one of three Rockies to hit forty or more homers that season, along with Galarraga and Castilla.

Hikers will frequently ride the Voyageur II in one direction to do a cross-island hike and be picked up at the other end when they finish.

The only one of these words that is revealed in the film is " it ," which is picked up on when Arthur, upon being asked to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring, declares that " it can't be done.

During one of these excursions, the Pisces picked up a large moving object on sonar ahead and above the bottom of the loch.

A " successful " use of a sign would be one in which the child is understood ( for example, a child saying " up " when he or she wants to be picked up ) and rewarded with the desired response from another person, thereby reinforcing the child's understanding of the meaning of that word and making it more likely that he or she will use that word in a similar situation in the future.

After Radio America dropped the show it was picked up by American Family Radio for about one year.

iTunes picked " Saints of Los Angeles " in their " Best of 2008 " in the Rock category as the number one song ; the song was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the " Best Hard Rock Performance " category.

At one point, while sick from scurvy, Richard is said to have picked off guards on the walls with a crossbow, while being carried on a stretcher.

At the beginning of the 2010 Major League Baseball season only one ( Jim Caple of ESPN. com, although he later recanted his pick before the NLCS, saying the Philadelphia Phillies would beat the Giants and advance to the World Series ) out of literally dozens of baseball writers and pundits picked the Giants to even reach the World Series, with most not expecting the Giants to even make the playoffs.

If they had wanted four, one of them would have been picked out.

Swedish traders and aristocrats naturally also picked up some food traditions in foreign countries ; cabbage rolls ( kåldolmar ) being one example.

Lett picked up the ball with no one in front of him and appeared to be headed for a 64-yard touchdown return.

The name was made up, as a publicity stunt, by the film producers ; he had to choose from a list of twenty names and picked the one with his mother's initials.

According to Jancis Robinson, a sense of " smokiness " is one clue that could be picked up in a blind tasting of Chardonnay but there are many styles that do not have any " smokey " notes.