Sentences with phrase «so plucked»

So I plucked a few of the remaining size 12s off the racks and swanned off to the changerooms.

When I self - published my book, I knew I had to do some promotion or I would sell zero copies, so I plucked up my courage, asked my pastor to allow me to do a book signing at the church (since it's a Christian non-fiction book) in exchange for donating a percentage to the church building fund.

HomeGoods had just about every type of serveware at our fingertips, so we plucked up these nifty ceramic bowls to hold easy snacks like gourmet popcorn and candies (yes, HomeGoods also has yummy treats!).

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

According to the Somadeva (a Buddhist holy book), a Buddhist ascetic's eye once offended him, so he plucked it out and cast it away.

As Jean Baptiste Colbert put it: «The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.»

So plucking a cell or two for diagnosis, as Antinori's team described, would probably miss any defect.

They are all around you so pluck up some nerve and be confident in knowing that there are lots of women looking for the same thing you are.

So plucking the hair in the ear canals, along with cleaning and inspecting the ears on a regular basis will help prevent this painful problem.

The title, apparently not some kind of smutty euphemism or double entendre, serves to remind critics and tax avoidance beneficiaries that «the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing».

It has been said that the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.

Not exact matches

Jessica Rovello swivels around and plucks one of the dozen or so sticky notes off the bookshelf behind her.

There's so much in this book that for the quote, I just plucked out one that's helped me in my interactions with colleagues and family members.

It's become a dictum that every year at least 50 hourly workers get plucked from the factory floor to go along with Foster on visits to customers, so they can see the results of their labors.

So instead of, say, plucking a rose and extracting its oil to create a rose - scented perfume, a biologist in a lab can recreate the genomic sequence that's responsible for creating a rose scent and insert it into brewer's yeast.

So true audaciousness comes about with just those people who have the pluck and the courage to say, «Screw it; let's do it.»

So far, so good for the stock pickers Warren Buffett plucked from relative obscurity to manage billions of his dollarSo far, so good for the stock pickers Warren Buffett plucked from relative obscurity to manage billions of his dollarso good for the stock pickers Warren Buffett plucked from relative obscurity to manage billions of his dollars.

So the apostles got it all wrong, and one or two lines plucked entirelly out of context is enough to base the most ridiculous inanities.

So yesterday, I pulled out the bass and tried to pluck out a tune.

In so far as this involved the body as a possible enemy of spiritual living, he counseled the utter subordination of the body, saying with characteristic hyperbole that hands and feet were to be amputated and eyes plucked out if they caused the higher life of a man to stumble.

Is the Bible commanding people to cut off their hand or pluck out their eye or is He teaching that hell is so horrible of a place that it would be better to lose a limb than go their?

Some had their hats violently plucked off and thrown away, so that they quite lost them.

You know the one after the time where it was in the tree tempting Eve, so I guess when it tempted Eve it looked more like a Lizard, but then afterward God plucked it's limbs off for punishment along with giving women birth pains.

My mom always taught me to leave my brows alone — I never plucked them terribly thin like a lot of my friends did and I'm so thankful.

After plucking these super sweet cherry tomatoes from their vines, they were so cute and plump, it sounded more appropriate (and fun) to call them lollipops.

My stringy and nearly leafless heirloom tomato plants — the ones I was so excited to cultivate so I could pluck juicy mater orbs straight from the vine and take a big old bite out of their still warm flesh — are as lifeless and lilting as a 6 foot, 95 - pound fashion model prepping for her fall debut on the catwalk.

The larger clusters tend to rise to the top of the bag, so those got plucked out right away.

I liked the idea of adding just a splash of cream, and I had a brand new herb garden waiting to be plucked for cooking, so I headed on into the unchartered waters and began.

So don't hold back, go ahead and pluck away.

Wait a minute or two, pluck one out and after tossing it from hand to hand (so as to not burn yourself) and taste it to see if it is tender enough for you.

I am so used to just being able to pluck whatever herbs I need from the garden but there is so much snow here now, I can't even find my hearty purple sage beneath the drifts.

For extra fresh flavors, pluck the rosemary, thyme and mint from plants purchased at a garden center; they'll flourish in a sunny window, so you can use them over and over.

I've always wanted to try a poppy seed roll anyway, so might as well pluck it off the bucket list!!

new potatoes are popping up at all the markets around me, as well as leafy herbs and freshly plucked onions, so i chose to make a few changes to the original recipe based on what was available to me.

I had some lemons hang in off my tree right now just waiting to be plucked, so perhaps I'll be making some lemon curd today

One of these is our great defender and key player Laurent Koscielny, who Wenger plucked from relative obscurity and helped to make one of the very best around, so The Mirror has reported our centre back declaring his deep gratitude and the sense that he needs to repay that faith.

And slowly we eased out line, waiting for the tap that would tell us the sinkers had hit rock so that we would start to reel up again, slowly, almost imperceptibly, until there would be a pluck at the line, and the temptation to stop the bait would be hard to fight down, but it had to be fought so that the pollack would keep coming, would smash fiercely on the bait this time, and the end of the salmon rod would come hard over and into the water as the fish made its first crash dive for the kelp.

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.

The news outlet are also reporting that Southgate has confirmed that he will only be selecting players for the England squad should they be playing well for their clubs, so with Rashford's shortage of game time, he may have to pluck up his ideas and get back into United's startling line - up before the season's over.

Even as a baby, Asya says, Max's arms were so long that when his cradle was put in the yard, he would reach out and pluck peaches from the branches of a neighbor's tree.

But there are plenty of examples, Koscielny has been the best thing Wenger plucked from France in quite a while, so there must be plentiful examples.

Yeah, lets not heap praise until its announced... You know what it's like being an Arsenal fan... How many times have we been so close, and then a player gets plucked from under our noses... So frustratinso close, and then a player gets plucked from under our noses... So frustratinSo frustrating!

So your idea Giroud has a better goalscoring record has been plucked from thin air and quickly debunked.

Van der sar won United so many trophies and he was plucked right from another EPL club.

Jordan Stevens made his debut yesterday and the young midfielder has high hopes, another player plucked from a first - team in Forest Green and a fee in the region of # 500k, so a decent fee for a player so young.

Plucked from West Brom's hands when he was still just a boy, Izzy Brown has shown why he was so highly regarded at the Hawthorns and has gone on to win back - to - back Youth Cups for Chelsea, plus the Under - 21 Premier League and the UEFA Youth League.

Wayne Rooney was so bad against Watford last weekend, he looked like someone who had been plucked from the crowd, plopped onto the pitch and asked to run the midfield.

So much potential arrived with high hopes - Romeu, an elegant midfielder plucked away from Barcelona, Lucas Piazon, a Brazilian likened in style to Kaka, Thorgan Hazard, the brother of Eden.

So most babies who are growing up in bad circumstances don't have the luck that the remaining orphans had of being plucked out and now being put in very good circumstances.

Keep adoption books accessible so your child can raise the subject simply by plucking the book of their shelf.