pluck,

             Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,

Strange Fruit 2010

The God of the Mountains, as they call him, made her a flower to pluck,

The Great Prince Shan 1906

Cock me cary, &c. This duck she swallow'd him up with a pluck,

The Nursery Rhyme Book Andrew Lang 1901

I have noticed the cold-blooded way in which men speak of this event, as if an ordinary malefactor, though one of unusual pluck,

The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches David Starr Jordan 1891

"I give my word," said Grania, "I will not taste a berry of those berries but the one your own hand will pluck,

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

"Well, I congratulate you all both on your patriotism and your pluck,

With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader 1867