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  • Een van Genadendal se tradisies wat vir my baie besonder is, is die jaarlikse Kinderfees; wanneer al julle kinders die berg opklim om wilde blomme te pluk waarmee julle dan die kerk versier.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Sum are good pluk, and will fite like the dickens when their masters is close by to back em, but ain't worth a cent by themselves.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) Various 1887

  • And may no rood hand pluk a flour from her toomstun!

    Artemus Ward 1865

  • Intussen pluk ons vye in die Karoo se laatmiddag van 'n boom langs die spoor.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • After the jump, however, you can read my attempt to edit the speech down to less than 500 words. pluk - sigh.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

  • The bottom line is that pluk wouldn't be satisfied unless Obama simply read off the budget line by line.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

  • It was a common thing for traders who thought that they were making too little impression, to seize desirable customers by the sleeve and seek to detain them with argument, and the London cooks drew up an ordinance in 1475 because—… “divers persones of the saide Craft wt their hands embrowed and fowled be accustumed to drawe and pluk other Folk as well gentilmen as other comon people by their slyves and clothes to bye of their vitailles whereby many debates and strives often tymes happen ayenst the peas.”

    Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

  • [3], laue and waische hem clene, pike hem, pluk hem small wiþ þyn [4] honde and myng hem wel with rawe oile. lay on vynegur and salt, and serue it forth.

    The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

  • Edward VI, long-before "Euphues" was written, occurs the following passage: "Like as a shipman in stormy wether plukes down the sails tarrying for bettar winde, so did I, most noble kinge, in my unfortunate chanche a Thursday pluk downe the hie sailes of my joy and comforte, and do trust one day that as troublesome waves have repulsed me backwarde, so a gentil winde will bringe me forwarde to my haven." [

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

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