Sentences with phrase «plucking by»

Nevertheless we still leave it to grow as best it can, hardly tending it at all, like those wild plants whose fruits are plucked by primitive peoples in their forests.

Misty's 12 - year old daughter picked the vodka, quickly plucked by another hen.

Scoring so many at a time when Spurs were frequently left languishing in the middle of, or at the bottom of the table, he was plucked by Sir Alex Ferguson at the ripe old age of 31 as a replacement for Eric Cantona.

That season, he helped lead the Seminoles to their first national championship in fourteen years, before being plucked by Mark Richt as his coordinator at Georgia.

Theo Walcott is one of a few remaining members of Arsenal's group of home - grown, British Golden Boys, plucked by Arsene Wenger as a teenager...

«For a young man with such a promising career to be so plucked by death leaves a sour taste in the mouth.

A bowl of fruits and vegetables, the only prop brought by any of the speakers, remained on the front table in the room, minus a nectarine, which had been plucked by Councilman Robert Jackson after he concluded his remarks against the mayor's plan.

Don't leave these face defining features to be haphazardly plucked by untrained hands or the opposite — leave them to grow unruly.

Your heartstrings feel like they're being plucked by angels.

As the child of immigrants myself, I could feel my strings being plucked by this tale of a fair Colleen from Ireland finding love and fulfillment in the New World, and it's certainly a compliment to director John Crowley («Boy A») and screenwriter Nick Hornby (adapting the novel by Colm Tóibín) that the film calls to mind Steven Spielberg and even John Ford in its willingness to commit to the grand gesture.

Coogler is just the latest in an ongoing trend of indie directors (Colin Trevorrow, Josh Trank, etc.) who have been plucked by the studios to revive major Hollywood properties despite their lack of experience, though you wouldn't know it from watching «Creed.»

Hugh Jackman The Potential: A virtual unknown when he was plucked by Bryan Singer from the London stage to play Wolverine when original choice Dougray Scott was held up on «Mission: Impossible II,» Hugh Jackman became an instant icon in the «X-Men» movies, and it was clear he had the charisma to do almost anything — drama, rom - com, musicals.

Workers rise early in the morning, strolling or motor - biking down the winding road that links the village to the estate, and head into fields of tea bushes to fill bags of tea leaves plucked by hand.

Vinaite, who has no prior acting experience and was plucked by Baker from her Instagram profile, is crushing as Halley.

Paris demonstrates her pluck by escaping from...

The Brussels Griffon should be plucked by hand on a regular basis and the beard needs to be combed to remove food particles.

It's dark when I get up at 6 am, the first hint of a new day on the horizon; the forest floor has turned gold and green as the cedars shed their summer cloak; honeysuckle leaves litter the boardwalks and garden ground; bright red honeysuckle berries are being plucked by tiny wrens; jays are sitting in the apple tree, feasting on the fruit we imagined as apple pie; the last roses are fading; fronds of great bull kelp are landing on the beach, food for next year's garden; the sudden daybreak howl of sporty boats heading to the hot fishing spots where we have our hydrophones has gone; sea lions are beginning to heave their huge bodies onto haul - out rocks along the way; most of our assistants have left, heading back to school or home; and in their absence we are spending more time in the lab at night, recording the voices of the orcas, who are still here.

Spotlit as you enter the first of three spaces in the exhibition, there's more automatons around the corner, this time a series of musical instruments ranging from a collapsing crutch with bells on to a one - string sitar plucked by a deer bone that resembles a human finger.

At first, each item was plucked by Susan to help pay the bills.

From the tiny seashells resting on the window sill, hand - plucked by Mom - to the collection of vintage beer cans neatly displayed by Randy inside an old beadboard hutch.

From the tiny seashells resting on the window sill, hand - plucked by Mom - to... [Read More...]

Not exact matches

The boys have been handpicked by professional scouts and plucked from their small clubs across Spain and sometimes abroad.

He was a teenager when, in 1994, military police plucked him from the streets of Asmara and transported him, by open - bed truck, to Sawa military camp.

From being a straight D student in high school, to building a real estate colossus she'd sell for $ 66 million, to reinventing herself in media topped by her star - turns on «Shark Tank,» Barbara Corcoran runs on pluck, gumption, street smarts and lessons her mother taught her, which she shares on this memorable episode of «All Business With Jeffrey Hayzlett.»

Bird's proclivity for, well, most everything serves him well once again, as each of his songs are punctuated by his piercing whistle (if you haven't heard it, you should stop reading andgo watch this), always spot - on guitar playing and classically trained violin plucking and bowing.

The law allowed going through a grainfield and plucking a few ears by hand on the way, but some of the Pharisees found fault with the disciples for doing this on the Sabbath.

The poor could pluck grain or pick grapes when passing by a field (Deut.

The same confusion is shown by those who want to pluck out the tares from the field, or by the disciples when they want to call down fire from heaven on unrepentant villages, or by Judas when he too does what God has said will come to pass.

When you have a company, and the founder is responsible for kick - starting the sexual revolution, and then you pluck out that aspect of the company's DNA by removing the nudity, it makes a lot of people, including me, sit and say, «What the hell is the company doing?»

That glorious treasure which was just as old as faith in Abraham's heart, many, many years older than Isaac, the fruit of Abraham's life, sanctified by prayers, matured in conflict — the blessing upon Abraham's lips, this fruit was now to be plucked prematurely and remain without significance.

What the plucked string and the dragonfly and the kingfisher do as determined by biology, or physics happens with us when Christ lives in us, Christ living the Christ way in us, in the truth of our lives, playing through our limbs and eyes to the Father.

The letter comes a week after scores of Iraqi Christians living around Detroit were plucked from their homes and cars — some on their way to church — and shackled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

-- «The disciples plucked corn on the Sabbath and are chidden by the mayor and the village council.

The man passes the time watching the crucifixion by casually plucking rabbits from a sack and feeding them to the snapping, vicious predator, who picks them apart without ever finishing one off.

When buying pineapple, check for ripeness first by plucking an inner leaf from the top of the fruit.

In addition to the profusion of flowers plucked from the lush garden by the canal du Midi, the tomatoes had their moment in front of the camera.

They're seeds, and when plucked off a plant they're covered by a pulpy red cherry.

Inglewood Organic birds are cold plucked, followed by a process called «air chilling «where birds are cooled in refrigerators; taking several hours to cool completely.

In Russia, the only time you could get your hands on chicken livers would be by buying a chicken, which came with all of its entrails and a few feathers here and there, that you'd be responsible in plucking.

When his tongue was tied by the word «rivalry,» he blurted an expletive that rhymes with pluck.

Don't forget that Stones was himself plucked as an unknown by Everton from Championship club Barnsley at about the same age and for about the same money.

Johnson on the other hand was plucked from the Championship by Manchester City aged at 22, three years earlier than his former Boro teammate.

To offset the hunger induced by the outdoors, Akaji scouts the rocks near the waterline, brushes aside the thick strands of brown sea wrack to pluck the edible green seaweed called limu.

The offending item was plucked from his arm by The Gunners» physio.

Lobanovsky assembled another great Dynamo side spearheaded by Andriy Shevchenko in late 1990s but would struggle to hold on to his star players in a world where talents were plucked out of Eastern European clubs fairly quickly.

We plucked with a 3 - man attack for this week, led by Almeria forward, on - loan from Liverpool, Suso Fernandez.

A win against United, followed up by a win on Sunday against Stoke will get Saints to 51 points and most possibly eighth position, which to be fair to Puel is not terribly bad for a team that has its stars regularly plucked out by bigger teams in the league and that reached the final of the League Cup earlier in the season.

Like Napoli, Roma had their premier star plucked away by Juventus in Miralem Pjanic, and missed out on a few targets...

Nani was plucked from relative obscurity by Sporting in 2003, joining from Portuguese lower league side Real Massama and after two formative years in the academy, he became a first - team regular in 2005.

Some songs are hand picked by me, others are plucked from the births I have been fortunante enough to attend.