10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICKILY»
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pickily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pickily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents.
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Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
Q) 1 8c: from French piquet. diminutive of pic PICK2. picket fence - noun a fence
made of pickets (see PICKET noun 3). picket line o noun a line of people acting
as pickets (see PICKET noun 1) in an industrial dispute. pickier, pickiest, pickily ...
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Arrazat's Aubergines: Inside a Languedoc Kitchen
asks Arthur pickily. 'Every kind,' Benoît assures him. 'Drums, trains...' But Vincent
is single-handedly loading his father's small trolley into the van: clearly his
chosen toy of the morning. 'Are you coming to the park?' he then asks me,
sounding ...
Idly SHUG reaches pickily over the tray and brings up a large piece of home-
cured ham, which she holds up to her nose as ifit is aflower, sniffing. Slowly she
takes a bite ofit, then munches it hungrily.) CELIE (Holds her breath, watching this
.
She ate pickily and talked only of delegation matters. “People can be so
wonderful. Everybody now—they are so into it. Want to save America. Make
people equal citizens, not serfs toiling in a greed machine run to enrich the few.”
She sighed.
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The Collected Works of Richard Edwards: Politics, Poetry and ...
At Il. 38-40 Damon regrets that Stephano is a coarse (i.e. lowborn and greedy)
feeder. 23. pike] (a) make off with oneself, depart, (b) with possible puns on 'pick'
(behave pickily, fastidiously) and perhaps pike as a coarse (i.e. freshwater) fish, ...
Richard Edwards, Ros King, 2001
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On Translating French Literature and Film: II
... will not be obliged, even quasi-consciously, to consider as problems any of the
issues raised by translation types and conventions".16 As so often with such
generalisations, much can be picked apart, most pickily if we are so inclined.
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Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series
... pneumocystis (carinii) pick-your-owner I Placidyl I pneumonia I pick-up I
plagiarize I pneumocystis (carinii) picky I plagiarized I pneumonitis I pickily I
plagiogranite I poché I picoplankton I planche I pock I picoplanktonic I planesman
I pecking ...
J. A. Simpson, Michael Proffitt, E. S. C. Weiner, 1997
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Basque-English, English-Basque Dictionary
n military. militarburu n military chief, military leader, militarkeria n militarism,
military dictatorship. militarki adv militarily. militartu vt. /vi. to militarize, to be
militarized. milizkatu vt. to eat pickily, to taste, milurte n millenium milurteburu /
ministro ...
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Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
21 Perceiving issues in ideological terms, Dulles could be pickily legalistic when
dealing with other political leaders. Some of these leaders were infuriated by his
manner. Churchill said that Dulles was "the only case of a bull I know who ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PICKILY»
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pickily is used in the context of the following news items.
The Pirates of Penzance (Tour)
It's a bit of a mouthful, and one to which 'with piano accompaniment' should be added if they're being pickily honest about what audiences can ... «WhatsOnStage.com, Apr 15»
Ad of the Day: World's Smallest Brewmaster Pours the Perfect Tiny …
Ever thus to Smithwick's, which is apparently improved by a squirrel—whose fastidiousness recalls Remy from Ratatouille—pickily selecting ... «Adweek, Jul 13»
How to Leave a Woman Twisting in the Wind: What I Learned at the …
I didn't notice anything blatantly wrong, and I'm too tired to go back and look through it pickily. However, I do think that “grammar nazis” only do ... «Live Action News, May 13»
The Atlantic Daily newsletter
my older (newly pickily and pricily vegetarian, like so many of our California rabble—no simple chubs of meat for them!) daughter cooed a few weekends ago, ... «The Atlantic, Nov 10»
English wine gets serious
... English sparkling wine – although at a recent tasting I pickily found the Nyetimber Blanc de Blancs 2001 too old and the just-released Classic ... «Financial Times, Apr 10»
Calvin Harris: How the non-dancing, foul-mouthed, anti-social Scot …
He says that Ready for the Weekend is very last-minute, much to his label's frustration, as he's pickily approving everything. He didn't like the ... «Independent, Aug 09»
