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picked and up
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.
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.
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.

picked and ran
The game ran 18 innings, and Clemens picked up the win.
However, Brandon Mitchell blocked the kick, Troy Brown picked up the ball at the 40 and ran 11 yards before lateraling to Antwan Harris, who took it 49 yards for a touchdown that made the score 21 – 3.
As part of the settlement, he picked up IBM's subsidiary Service Bureau Corporation ( SBC ), which ran computer processing for other corporations on its own computers.
King of Diamonds was picked up for syndication in 1961, but ran for only one season before being cancelled.
When Grauberger stopped organizing it, Harvey " picked up the torch and ran with it ," so to speak.
But Alicia Keys, John Legend, and Cee-Lo picked up D's mantle and ran with it ".
After his grant money ran out, Karlgren supported himself by teaching French and, famously, English, which he had never been taught but had picked up from English-speaking passengers on the ship from Europe to China.
* Harvey Comics, which had several other comic strip reprint comics running at the time, picked up Mutt and Jeff from Dell, and this version of the comic ran to 1965 for a total of 33 issues, plus two short-lived spinoff titles: Mutt & Jeff Jokes and Mutt & Jeff New Jokes.
When a wounded paratrooper was standing in shock in front of the assaulting forces, Chaplain Watters ran forward, picked the man up on his shoulders and carried him to safety.
Instead, in a wild broken play, the Bulldogs ' center and placeholder mishandled the snap, but Etter picked up the bobbled ball and ran it for a touchdown to win the game 14 – 7.
For the November 2007 parliamentary election SDP ran on an economic program devised by the previously non-partisan economist Ljubo Jurčić, who was also picked to be the party's candidate for the post of Prime Minister in case of their election victory at a party meeting in July 2007.
The Party had a short lived provincial wing in Alberta that ran one candidate in 1935 Alberta provincial election and picked up 192 votes.
The Calgary-Edmonton corridor routes were picked up by Peace Air, which also ran scheduled flights to Fort McMurray.
After only a few shows in Hot Springs, they were picked up nationally by NBC, and Lum and Abner, sponsored by Quaker Oats, ran until 1932.
Its earlier incarnation, Cavalcade of Sports, likewise a boxing show, ran on NBC's New York City station WNBT ( now WNBC ) intermittently since 1943 and was picked up by the NBC network three years later.
CBS picked up a new version of the show entitled Million Dollar Password, hosted by Regis Philbin, which premiered on June 1, 2008 and ran for 12 episodes over two seasons.
These same original cast members were then featured in a new television sitcom version of this movie in 1985, which in its first season was a Disney Channel feature, then went on to be picked up by TBS and broadcast syndication, where it was retitled The New Leave It to Beaver and ran until 1989.
Due to indifference by units there were difficulties in handling casualties ' mail as a letter to the Press bears out :" When General Methuen's column was camped at Jacobsdal, ... one of our Company Yeomanry walked over the site, picked up a mail bag containing a good many letters, so he shouldered the bag and ran to give it to the departing Regiment.
After local newspapers picked up on the story, the Daily Star ran the story on 28 January 1997 as a photo-shoot of Messenger, under the headline, " Move Over Eva Herzigova ".
The Air Force funding for the project ran out in 1953, but development was picked up by the Giddings and Lewis Machine Tool Co.
3 ) picked up the story line and ran from 1993 to 1996.
In mid-July, the Herald Sun ran a story on the campaign, which was subsequently picked up by other media outlets, including the Nine Network itself.
King Bimbisara, learning about the child being thrown out, ran outside and picked up the child and put its bleeding little finger in his mouth and sucked it till it stopped bleeding and continued this for days until it was healed.
But in that fall they picked up Fox Kids programming which they ran 7-8 a. m. and 3-5 p. m. weekdays and Saturday mornings.

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