pickin

• “SoT: I told you, I'll be doing some pumpkin pickin ', but if you can answer one question --”

  The Unknown Caller

• “When God does the "pickin" everything else is secondary (exit polls, talk shows, debates, schemes, dirty politics etc.) g”

  Obama: 'We need change in America'

• “Amang the bits o 'lads wi' pickin 'oot the stones.”

  Geordie Black

• “Ups an 'off in the middle o' pickin ', cool as you please, to go to Californey.”

  Flash For Freedom

• “Plenty of it -- for th 'pickin' up," replied the miner.”

  Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice, or, the Wreck of the Airship

• “I ha 'had enow o' folks a comin 'here an' pickin 'my brains and runnin' off wi 'my letters and never givin' me so much as a sixpence.”

  Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"

• “Not out an 'out strakin', but jes 'kind o' pickin 'en a pickin'; insultin 'like.”

  Isle o' Dreams

• “Goin ', comin', an 'pickin' would take you the whole mornin ', I reckon.”

  The Wall Between

• “Just add another roll o 'towelling to that order," she would command the Algonquin woman who was handing out her month's work, "there's a lot o 'lazy lumps out at our corner that's sittin' pickin 'their fingers for want o' somethin 'to do.”

  In Orchard Glen

• “Then you c'ud put in yore spare moments gentlin 'a hawss fo' her an 'pickin' wild flowers, until Mirandy Bailey persuades her the climate is too chilly.”

  Rimrock Trail

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