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

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

It was a picked assault company.

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.

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

In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap.

When Farouk was overthrown, police picked up his personal pimp, Pulley Bey.

He was not the sort of sailor Hudson wanted his backers to see on board and he had Greene wait at Gravesend, where the Discovery picked him up.

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.

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

Anne picked up the towel she was hemming for the hospital guild.

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.

::::::( 6 ) my copy of the May 18 edition of the The San Francisco Chronicle as it was when I first picked it up ( as contrasted with my copy as it was a few days later: in my fireplace, burning )

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

A batter is not charged with a plate appearance if, while he was at bat, a preceding runner is put out on the basepaths for the third out in a way other than by the batter putting the ball into play ( i. e., picked off, caught stealing ).

Bigfoot gained international attention when the story was picked up by the Associated Press.

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.

For example, the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly originally appeared only in the New York Star in 1948 and was not picked up for syndication until the following year.

Its banner was again picked up by the Avar Imam Shamil, who fought against the Russians from 1834 until 1859.

It was reported that " the carcass was picked clean by vultures before experts could examine it ".

However, the show was never picked up for a series.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

The Maguire family was setting up a separate camp nearby.

He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.

The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.

`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

He knew now what he was up against.

One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles ).

Mankowski, the ball-hawking defensive expert, was cited for his performance against Bradley in St. Louis U.'s nationally televised victory.

Accrington was first represented nationally after the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 after the 1885 general election by Accrington ( UK Parliament constituency ).

He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

During World War II, Caltech was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.

The earlier artwork was created by nationally known artist Tom Kamifuji and art directed by Nick Talesfore.

Masters ' Diving events are normally conducted in age-groups of 5 or 10 years, and attract competitors of a wide range of ages and experience ( many, indeed, are newcomers to the sport ); the oldest competitor in a Masters ' Diving Championship was Viola Krahn, who at the age of 101 was the first person in any sport, male or female, anywhere in the world, to compete in an age-group of 100 + years in a nationally organized competition.

During World War II, Dartmouth was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.

Devo remained popular in countries such as Australia, where the nationally broadcast 1970s – 1980s pop TV show Countdown was one of the first programs in the world to broadcast their video clips.

Of these, Tony Fletcher's Jamming was the most far reaching, becoming a nationally distributed mainstream magazine for several years before its demise.

Some words were shortened ( győzedelem > győzelem, ' triumph ' or ' victory '); a number of dialectal words spread nationally ( e. g. cselleng ' dawdle '); extinct words were reintroduced ( dísz ' décor '); a wide range of expressions was coined using the various derivative suffixes ; and some other, less frequently used methods of expanding the language were utilized.

On March 4, 1987, Reagan returned to the airwaves in a nationally televised address, taking full responsibility for any actions that he was unaware of, and admitting that " what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages.

Katherine Hillyer's article was published nationally on February 20, 1941, and included a picture of the vehicle with the caption:

Quayle writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column, serves on a number of corporate boards, chairs several business ventures, and was chairman of Campaign America, a national political action committee.

Lawrence was only in his twenties when his " Migration Series " made him nationally famous.

Rockne was not the first coach to use the forward pass, but he helped popularize it nationally.

As First Lady, Bush was involved in issues of concern to children and women, both nationally and internationally.

The construction of the dam was endorsed in 1959, however, after the purge of relatively liberal and nationally oriented leaders under Eduards Berklavs and their replacement by Moscow-oriented, ideologically conservative cadres led by Arvīds Pelše.

* 1998 – The first " National Sorry Day " was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.

These cartoon tributes raised over $ 50, 000 to benefit the 9 / 11 families. The art was featured and displayed in both nationally syndicated newspapers and museums across America, including the Newseum in Washington, DC, the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York City.