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Yet, I wonder if they still write on vellum using a quill they have plucked from a passing goose or if they use paper and a fountain pen or ballpoint.
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- Having the long stiff hairs removed: said of the pelt of a fur-seal.
- Endowed with pluck or courage: with a qualifying adjective.
[Colloquial] “What, going?” said he, “and going for good? I wish I was such a good-plucked one as you, Miss Anville.” Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, On a Peal of Bells, note. A very sensible man, and has seen a deal of life, and kept his eyes open, but a terrible hard-plucked one. Talked like a book to me all the way, but be hanged if I don't think he has a thirty-two-pound shot under his ribs instead of a heart. Kingsley, Two Years Ago, iv. (Davies.)
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Yet, I wonder if they still write on vellum using a quill they have plucked from a passing goose or if they use paper and a fountain pen or ballpoint.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 - Mrs. Dreyfus didn't approve of her husband's illegal ministrations to Sissy, but, like many native Richmonders, she was gracious to the point of agony. — Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
- In his hands lay a very drab and tattered circlet made of grass runners plucked from the field of battle and braided together haphazardly, roots and earth and blades and blood. — The Grass Crown
- Felicia that his uncle's grandmother had been an English girl, plucked from the desert by a hawk-eyed chieftain whose prompt action had probably saved her life. — Falcon's Prey
- "Two fine Americans like you," said the farmer in a mean voice, "you would not want to meet the police, now would you? — Dance Of Desire
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- from pluck n., 5, spirit, courage, + -ed.