There was no time to pick out a penny ; ;

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

There was an assertive maleness in his grinning refusal to pick them up.

Another popular method of exploiting this bug was to simply use thrust to keep the ship in motion with 1 or 2 asteroids in the play field, allowing the player to pick off as many 1, 000 point UFOs as possible.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

In the 2001 NFL Draft, the Falcons orchestrated a trade with the San Diego Chargers, acquiring the first overall pick ( which was used on quarterback Michael Vick ) in exchange for wide receiver / return specialist Tim Dwight and the fifth overall pick ( used on running back LaDainian Tomlinson ).

Cleveland was coming off a series of bad drafts, including in 1954, when the team selected quarterback Bobby Garrett with the first pick.

The Rockies ' first pick in the expansion draft was pitcher David Nied from the Atlanta Braves organization.

His replacement was Todd Helton, who had been the club's first-round draft pick in 1995 out of the University of Tennessee.

In this game each side fielded eleven men, participants were allowed to pick up the inflated egg-shaped ball and run with it and the ball carrier was stopped by knocking him down or " tackling " him.

Enlil was known as the inventor of the mattock ( a key agricultural pick, hoe, ax or digging tool of the Sumerians ) and caused plants to grow.

Pedro's coming-of-age gift to El Cid was his pick of a horse from an Andalusian herd.

However, that figure was reduced in later years when it was determined the survey also included people who play NCAA bracket pools, which are not exactly fantasy sports ( where you pick individual players ).

But Freeciv was already playable and addictive enough to pick up other students as players, bugfixers and feature extenders.

This was the point at which the silver and gold treasure of Peru had to be landed and sent overland to the Caribbean Sea, where galleons from Spain would pick it up at the town of Nombre de Dios.

In 1857 Lamont DuPont solved the main problem when using cheaper sodium nitrate formulations when he patented DuPont " B " Blasting powder ; after manufacturing grains from press-cake in the usual way, the powder was tumbled with graphite dust for 12 hours, forming a coating on each grain which in this case reduced its ability to pick up moisture.

He sailed first to Cuba, to pick up supplies Cortés had arranged for him, where Governor Velázquez convinced him to go and claim the colony he was to found as his own.

Under Tobin, the Colts would go onto draft running back Marshall Faulk with the second overall pick in the 1994 and acquired quarterback Jim Harbaugh as well.

The inaugural season featured many of the players who would lead Jacksonville into the playoffs in the team's next four seasons, including quarterback Mark Brunell ( acquired in a draft day trade from Green Bay ), offensive lineman Tony Boselli ( drafted with the 2nd pick overall in the 1995 NFL Draft ) running back James Stewart ( also drafted in 1995 ), and wide receiver Jimmy Smith ( signed as a free agent ).

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.

During the 2005 NFL Draft, the Chargers drafted linebacker Shawne Merriman with a draft pick acquired from the Giants in the Eli Manning trade, who would go on to become a selection to the 2006 Pro Bowl and the 2005 Defensive NFL Rookie of the Year Award recipient.

The Redskins used their next first round draft pick ( acquired from the Denver Broncos ) on Auburn Quarterback Jason Campbell.

They acquired Alexei Yashin from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for forward Bill Muckalt, defenseman Zdeno Chara and the Isles ' second overall pick in the entry draft, which the Senators used to select Jason Spezza.

The keystone of those teams was acquired when the Flyers took a chance on a 19-year-old diabetic from Flin Flon, Manitoba, named Bobby Clarke with their second draft pick, 17th overall, in the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft.

The Flyers also acquired goaltender Martin Biron from the Buffalo Sabres for a 2007 second-round pick.

In June, the Flyers made a trade which sent the first round draft pick they had acquired in the Forsberg trade ( 23rd overall ) back to Nashville for the rights to negotiate with impending unrestricted free agents Kimmo Timonen and Scott Hartnell.

Teetering on the edge of the playoff picture again, the club, on February 7, acquired utility forward Jussi Jokinen from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Wade Brookbank, Josef Melichar and Carolina ’ s fourth-round draft pick in 2009, then reacquired winger Erik Cole from Edmonton at the March trade deadline and proceeded on a 12-3-2 run to close out the season.

Before the playoffs, the Avalanche acquired star defenseman Rob Blake and center Steven Reinprecht from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Adam Deadmarsh, Aaron Miller and their first-round 2001 Draft pick.

Second, they selected defenseman Duncan Siemens 11th overall, a pick acquired from the St. Louis Blues in the controversial trade that sent power-forward Chris Stewart, long time top prospect Kevin Shattenkirk and a second round pick to the Blues in exchange for their first-round pick, veteran Jay McClement and 2006 former first overall pick Erik Johnson.

On February 15 the Magic announced that they had acquired Darko Miličić and Carlos Arroyo from the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Kelvin Cato and a 2007 top-five protected first-round draft pick.

Cleveland, meanwhile, turned their acquired pick into future All-Star Brad Daugherty.

A week later on December 14, 2011, the Hornets agreed to a deal with the Los Angeles Clippers that would send Paul to Los Angeles in exchange for Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman, Al-Farouq Aminu, and a first-round draft pick acquired by the Clippers from a trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2004.

They also drafted Austin Rivers from Duke University, with the 10th pick ( acquired from the Clippers as part of the Chris Paul trade ).

The Los Angeles Lakers selected Johnson with the pick acquired from the New Orleans Jazz, who traded the selection for Gail Goodrich.

The Bulls then acquired Ömer Aşık from the Portland Trail Blazers ( selected with the 36th pick ) for Denver's 2009 regular second-round draft pick, New York's 2009 regular second-round draft pick, and the Bulls ' 2010 regular second-round draft pick.

The selection acquired from the Clippers became the first pick in the lottery, while the Cavaliers original first round selection ended up as the # 4 selection in the draft.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

For those who plan to travel to Europe by one route and return by another some agencies offer a service whereby you can pick up a car in one city on arrival and leave it in another city, or even another country, when you are ready to return home.

For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.

Hence S breaks up into uncountably many orbits under G. Using the axiom of choice, we could pick a single point from each orbit, obtaining an uncountable subset X of S with the property that all of its translates by G are disjoint from X.

When the deal is complete, all players pick up their cards, or ' hand ', and hold them in such a way that the faces can be seen by the holder of the cards but not the other players, or vice versa depending on the game.

However, by identifying clusters of observable properties that are associated with core examples of clitics on the one hand, and core examples of affixes on the other, one can pick out a battery of tests that provide an empirical foundation for a clitic / affix distinction.

Robbins describes the definition as not classificatory in " pick out certain kinds of behaviour " but rather analytical in " focus attention on a particular aspect of behaviour, the form imposed by the influence of scarcity.

Other figures, such as lines, triangles, or circles, are named by listing a sufficient number of points to pick them out unambiguously from the relevant figure, e. g., triangle ABC would typically be a triangle with vertices at points A, B, and C.

Toe jumps are launched by tapping the toe pick of one skate into the ice, and include ( in order of difficulty from easiest to hardest ):

# Toe loops take off from the back outside edge of the left or right foot and are launched by the opposite toe pick ( toe walleys are similar, but take off from the back inside edge of the right foot );

# Flips, which take off from the back inside edge of the right or left foot and are launched by the opposite toe pick ;

# Lutzes, which take off from the back outside edge of the right or left foot and are launched by the opposite toe pick.

Children employed as mule scavenger by cotton mills would crawl under machinery to pick up cotton, working 14 hours a day, six days a week.

Frank Jackson and John Searle, for example, have defended internalist accounts of thought content according to which the contents of our thoughts are fixed by descriptions that pick out the individuals and kinds that our thoughts intuitively pertain to the sorts of things that we take them to.

Shula had coached the Colts the previous seven pre-merger seasons ( 1963 – 9 ) and was signed by Joe Robbie after the merger was consummated ; because the signing came after the merger the NFL's rules on tampering came into play, and the Dolphins had to give up their first-round pick to the Colts.

* Books and other items that are being held for library users who asked the librarian by phone to set them aside for them to pick up later the same day, or within the next few days.

The birds will tend to come ashore in small groups to provide some defense against predators which might pick off individuals one by one.

His work was published posthumously by his pupil, Guillaume de Morlaye ( born c. 1510 ), who, however, did not pick up the complex polyphony of de Rippe.

In 2008, Pegasus Books published The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II: The Seed of Banquo, a play by American author and playwright Noah Lukeman which endeavoured to pick up where the original Macbeth left off, and to resolve its many loose ends.

The Vikings addressed the problem by drafting running back Chuck Foreman with their first pick in the 1973 draft.

Every year ( or every nine years in some sources ) he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus ' creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur.

The sustain at the bottom end is particularly striking, and by routing the two outputs from the stereo " Rick-O-Sound " output, the brighter bridge pick up through a guitar rig and the bassier neck pickup through a bass setup, a particularly distinctive bass sound is produced.

The rest of the set would listen to the calling dancing master or pick up the dance by observing the leading couple.