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

He picked her up, sliding one hand under her shoulders, the other under her knees, and carried her into the house.

He picked up the powder canister and ran out.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In their living room, Mrs. Cimbora picked up a photograph of about 75 of the first settlers, posing at the entrance of the orange grove planted that first year.

Unluckily for Wisden, the photo that they picked was the offending photograph.

Curiously, when the American military first released information about the crash decades later, the documents falsely stated that the wreck had been found on distant Vancouver Island-possibly because 10 survivors picked up by the ' Cape Perry ' had been taken to Port Hardy and a photograph of them taken there.

Several companies, including Fairchild Semiconductor, RCA and Texas Instruments, picked up on the invention and began development programs.

As he slowly continued analyzing Tycho's Mars observations — now available to him in their entirety — and began the slow process of tabulating the Rudolphine Tables, Kepler also picked up the investigation of the laws of optics from his lunar essay of 1600.

The men on the floor of the valley then picked up and began to patrol north again moving another 50 or so meters when an RPG was fired off a low foothill to the east.

As a result of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, interest in ridesharing picked up and the states began experimenting with HOV lanes.

While that version ( which did not air ) had a much greater departure from the game's original format, the producers significantly retooled the format to create a somewhat more faithful remake of the program, which was picked up in syndication and began in fall 1998.

In fall 2003, Game Show Network picked up the rights to the ABC Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with Regis Philbin, and in December, began airing GSN Video Games, the first program to air on the network that had nothing to do with traditional game shows.

Steve Allen was the first host of The Tonight Show, which began as a local New York show, being picked up by the NBC network in 1954.

The series was not picked up by a major network, but, distributed by MGM / UA Entertainment Co. Television, began a syndicated run in the fall of 1984.

The Killers, the Bravery and the Stills all left their synthpop sound behind after their debut albums and began to explore classic 1970s rock, but the style was picked up by a large number of performers, particularly female solo artists.

The bonobo, Kanzi, who learned to speak using a keyboard with lexigrams, picked up some sign language from watching videos of Koko ; Kanzi's researcher, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, did not realize he could sign until Kanzi began signing to anthropologist Dawn Prince-Hughes, who had previously worked closely with gorillas.

This change was soon picked up by Huguenot writers, who began to expand on Calvin and promote the idea of the sovereignty of the people, ideas to which Catholic writers and preachers responded fiercely.

According to Robert Hendrickson, author of the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, black workers in Chicago meatpacking plants picked up the term from white workers and began applying it indiscriminately to all whites.

The wind at this point also picked up strength and began blowing from the east, pushing the fires back over the city.

Decolonization began in the 19th century and picked up pace only after World War II left the European empires weakened and struggling to subdue the native resistance across the vast expanses of their empires.

Things finally picked up for her when she began to work at various restaurants and was introduced to the works of Auguste Escoffier, which proved influential.

As he had casually picked up the art of etching by watching a comrade in Paris working at a commercial engraving, so he began the making of medals after a walk in the British Museum, studying the masterpieces of Pisanello, and a visit to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris.

The show was picked up in January 2003, and the regular series began its 21-week run on March 10, 2003.

In June 2009, producing studio 20th Century Fox announced that Comedy Central had picked up the show for 26 new half-hour episodes, which began airing in 2010 and 2011.

Web Drifter began as a pilot originally pitched to Comedy Central, but it was picked up by Revision3 after the cable network passed on the show.

The history of Lobos began in 1740 when a Jesuit mission led by Reverend Father Falkner, who surveyed the centre and South of the Province of Buenos Aires and thus picked up some geographic information of the area.

Initially produced by Blackburn himself, the series was later picked up by game publishers Kenzer & Company, who began publication with a second printing of issue four after an error made by Blackburn rendered the first printing nearly unreadable.

Carlton picked 144 runners off base, by far the most in Major League Baseball since pickoff records began being collected in 1957.

But when Putin ’ s push to restore the old anthem began to pick up momentum, he picked up his pen once again, and wrote new lyrics to go with Alexandrov ’ s score.