"Pluck at" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with an occasional tack from side to side—that almost fetches him up among the manzanitas—he at length reaches the front of the house. There stopping, and looking up to the roof, he salutes those upon it by removing his hat giving a back-scrape with his foot, and a pluck at one of his brow-locks. ...
— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid
... that pluck at his cassock's hem; Sighings of earthly breath that smite his cheek; Canice the priest swings on, atune with them, Hears the throbbings of pain, and hears them speak; Hears the word they utter, and answers "Yea! Yea, poor souls, for I ...
— The Haunted Hour - An Anthology • Various
... you think I don't know all that myself? But what on earth would you have me do? Besides, he may be a good boxer, but he's got no pluck at all. ...
— The Gold Bat • P. G. Wodehouse
... passed on before her. But not till he had passed did he understand the manoeuver. To follow her would have been nothing less than the temptation to pluck at the strings of her mask. Would he have touched it? He could not say, the temptation not ...
— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath
... effort to stagger across the passage, and to pluck at Marie's gown. When he spoke, his ...
— Tales from Many Sources - Vol. V • Various
... that if there must be hell, it must be such as Dante set to rhyme and the old hard-shell preachers preached: a region where flames sear and demons pluck at the frantic nerves, playing upon ...
— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes
... high standard of living and thinking will certainly do better than he who has none at all. "Pluck at a gown of gold," says the Scotch proverb, "and you may get a sleeve o't." Whoever tries for the highest results cannot fail to reach a point far in advance of that from which he started; and though the end attained may fall short of that proposed, still, the very effort to rise, of itself cannot ...
— Self Help • Samuel Smiles |
