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  • Perhaps if it was called the Plucking Pheasant, or something with a similar ring,

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • En effeuillant la marguerite (aka Plucking the Daisy / Mademoiselle Striptease),

    C I N E B E A T S 2009

  • Plucking up the book from the book thief's hands, I paused to listen to my daughter's feedback on the book's numerous photographs (including several of sharpshooter Annie Oakley):

    Tante Marie-Francoise 2009

  • Plucking the washcloth from her fingers, he finished scrubbing his face clean of blood.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Plucking a candle from a low table nearby, she mumbled the words to set flame to wick.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Plucking up the book from the book thief's hands, I paused to listen to my daughter's feedback on the book's numerous photographs (including several of sharpshooter Annie Oakley):

    Lettres de ma Terrasse 2009

  • Plucking up a piece of cantaloupe between his fingers, he popped it into his mouth.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Plucking up a piece of cantaloupe between his fingers, he popped it into his mouth.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Plucking him from an outpost in Texas, Marshall pulled the talented Kansan into the Army's planning cortex before dispatching him to lead the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France.

    Casting the Plan For Victory 2012

  • Plucking the washcloth from her fingers, he finished scrubbing his face clean of blood.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

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