Alexey Alexandrovitch sighed, plucking up his courage.
My nosegays are for captives; Dim, long-expectant eyes, Fingers denied the plucking, Patient till paradise,
He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the back of one hand.
'For lone people as have got nobody to care for them, or take care of them, or as have been hurt in their mind, or that kind of thing,' observed Mr. Raddle, plucking up a little cheerfulness, and looking round, 'the country is all very well.
You would have been specially interested in hearing about the tableau of the Princes in the Tower, when one of the pillows burst, and the youthful Princes were so covered with feathers that the picture might very well have been called 'Michaelmas Eve; or, Plucking the Geese'.