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    1. Now every bank manager and school mistress has to show off their flash sheet designer tattoo at the beach or the company picnic


    2. Goodness knows what he managed to get his mother to put together for a picnic


    3. I’d got to know some of the boys in the village quite well and we’d come up here with our bikes and a picnic lunch, spending all day up here


    4. Picnic: If you dream of having a picnic in the country, it portends happiness in love or promotion at work


    5. Poopsie had organised a small picnic


    6. over to where the picnic was set


    7. After the picnic Catwhiskers laid back and closed his eyes


    8. That reminds me … I’m having Katie, Abi and Ben here for lunch – if the weather is like this, we could have a picnic in the garden


    9. His curious eyes fixed on Alastair, he explains that Sally has gone off to North Wales to see Uncle David’s house and that they have been to church with Anna who has given them a fantastic picnic lunch in her garden, going into substantial detail before finally reaching the salient point which is that they are trying to cut Anna’s lawn, but that the lawn mower is not working properly


    10. She pulled out a picnic basket

    11. So that was the end of their picnic on that beach, but the beginning of their serious plans to investigate Tdeshi’s fate


    12. Their picnic spot was set on a bend in the road where a small


    13. ' She delegated certain of the Lodge tasks and chores to the men and, remembering the picnic basket, walked the girls to the little boat dock


    14. The doctor's supplies, the impromptu picnic hamper that he brought over from the barn the previous evening is empty, save for a couple of sachets of Resolve


    15. On the bank sat an old picnic table, close enough to the water that you could still


    16. The picnic table looked as though it been there forever, but it was still sturdy


    17. Going out with Sally and her family would be nice … yes, I’ll go … I’ll pop over to see Sally tomorrow and ask if there is anything I can contribute to the picnic


    18. ‘The invitation mentioned a picnic, can I bring something towards that?’


    19. Sally called out to me to go into the kitchen where she was packing the last of the picnic into a hamper


    20. It being a sunny day, the car park was filling up but we found a space without too much trouble and between us we carried the rug and picnic baskets into the grounds of the Abbey

    21. It caused a bit of a hold up as we got to the check-in point as we had to put everything down to find our National Trust membership cards but the staff, as usual, were patient and said they hoped we had a lovely picnic


    22. Oh, leave them to it, Sally, go and unload the picnic stuff from the boot of the car


    23. Heather produced a blanket from her picnic


    24. “This is a picnic, silly


    25. eat French food on a picnic


    26. Their breathing got louder, but before the picnic escalated any


    27. The small card read: I’ve never been on a picnic with a beautiful


    28. So she sat down and reclined over the picnic bench, and lay there for a while, thinking about a girl she had a crush on


    29. The girls were stretched out on the floor, with the sleeping bags from the car, and a picnic box Emma had never seen before


    30. The five of them stood on the picnic benches for a while

    31. There was actually some torrock going on but it was a very picnic game


    32. inexpertly tied supplies on the roof – looking for a picnic


    33. waving us towards the now vacant picnic area with a sad


    34. sunny meadows, we returned to have a picnic in the car


    35. The site of our picnic was ideal


    36. Madame suggested we picnic on the table in her


    37. endless supply of picnic spots – but the weather would be


    38. picnic spots, there’d be none


    39. have to do without a proper picnic spot


    40. We passed ten picnic spots within the next ten

    41. ‘At least we can have a nice picnic lunch beside the


    42. but it was downhill all the way, and we’d brought a picnic


    43. We had our picnic lunch in the gondola on the way


    44. We had a pleasant picnic on a rise overlooking acres of


    45. that for the gril at the picnic, we note


    46. An unending thick stream of greasy greed was oozing out of his pores like a voracious army of ants marching out from an anthill on a warm summer day near a crowded picnic area


    47. She wanted to return the man’s bitterness a hundredfold, to remind him that it had been no picnic for her


    48. In an interview with Newsweek, a former associate claims that Professor Spanners' present militant stance against the butterfly world is the result of childhood trauma, which she traces back to being dive-bombed by a red admiral on a family picnic


    49. Pierre: Okay, now that we've covered most of the business, it's time to vote on the staff picnic


    50. Okay, so, as you all probably assumed, we are going to wait until most of the tours have passed through before we have the staff picnic












































    1. knoll on the edge of the pine forest and picnicked on our


    2. playing on the green grass while adults picnicked nearby


    3. We picnicked on the lakeshore at four in the morning with champagne and biscuits from the gatekeeper's lodge


    4. We picnicked on the lake shore at four in the morning with champagne and biscuits from the gatekeeper’s lodge


    5. In spring and summer you got out, walked, picnicked; these were desperate solutions to the desperate problem of a hated man


    1. We'd been picnicking at the local beach, watching the surfers and water-skiers riding the long, rolling waves, waiting for their perfect moment, and uncle was applauding their commitment and patience


    2. She helped Mister into the car’s boot and laid the hazel stick on the car’s backseat; all thoughts of a day spent picnicking banished


    3. All the accoutrements of picnicking had


    4. The tide had turned and the sea smells and the swish of the receding waves on the darkened foreshore brought back memories of swimming and picnicking and sailing on the bay, throwing out bait for pollock and mackerel


    5. For there in the grass, not fifty yards away, sat Hvitserk, Sigurd and Bjorn, picnicking upon roasted wolf meat


    6. Cristian arrived at Central Park and sat on a bench looking out at the people walking, playing, and picnicking


    7. to a croc while picnicking at that very spot


    8. As she looked more carefully at the golden skin of the boy, his blond highlights made brighter by the sun, she realized it was Cam, picnicking with another girl


    9. It was the happiness of the child escaped from its lessons and picnicking gloriously in freedom and unrebukedness


    10. Their leader barked a command in a language that Simon didn’t understand and the soldiers stopped, wheeled, and faced the picnicking quartet

    11. She and Elfi were picnicking in the courtyard of the Institute where Simla, as Remo, had her ass kicked by


    12. They had spent the day picnicking, and for supper he had prepared a filet mignon which she didn’t like because it was too rare, so he broiled it some more and it was too much broiled or fried or something


    1. For Lindy and me, picnics have always been an


    2. and enjoyed one of the nicest picnics of the holiday


    3. "Never knew nuns went on picnics," he commented with a frown


    4. “Dad used to take me on picnics


    5. She sits on the side of the bed and hands me the cold, blue plastic block used to keep sandwiches cool on picnics


    6. While previously the Fernández family did everything together, traveling, picnics or vacation, early in 1981, Josie began to talk about a trip to the Holy Land that she wanted to make with Agatha because Roger “did not understand her spirituality”


    7. If we did, from then on, like him, we would have only eaten hamburgers at picnics! Dixie co-wrote many published scientific papers with her boss, Dr


    8. The summer brings warmth and makes the grain ripen and we have picnics under the trees and watch the young lambs and calves play on the grass, and in the autumn, everyone works hard to reap the harvest, collect logs from the forest and gives thanks and prepares for the winter


    9. Mother finally agreed with me and a week later, we began to arrange family trips again, like the picnics, long drives and shopping


    10. It began small but soon the collection went beyond Dining Services to the Turtle Mountain Cafe and at Homecoming, picnics and other major events

    11. During the mild weather months people come here to have picnics


    12. “We’ll have to cancel all plans for picnics,” said Ben


    13. The boys loved the beach, the sea, the outdoors and the picnics


    14. They did research together in the library, attended live shows and concerts, read interesting books and regularly went to the beach for picnics


    15. We'd have picnics, he would hold my hand in public again and


    16. river and we had some fine picnics on its shore in South Grafton


    17. It is warm weather in July and good for picnics and games


    18. He dreamed of being part of a happy family; picnics on the beach, presents under the Christmas tree, hugs and cuddles from his father, and kisses from his mother


    19. It was simply a man and his girlfriend enjoying each other’s companionship on the weekends with dancing and picnics


    20. What if this species extolled the beauty of humans, and painted us, and took photos of us? And grew us, and had picnics under us? But never gave a thought to the possibility that we might have feelings, or feel pain, or might not like being killed? What if this species lopped off our limbs whenever they felt like it? And shaped us to grow as they wanted us to? All for their own benefit? What would we think of such a species? And…all of their behaviour was rationalized and justified by, and based-on the sacred idea-concept of a guaranteed return on their investment because they wanted to make a tidy profit without actually themselves working to earn it?

    21. The Holy Spirit is no more needed to run bazaars, social clubs, institutions, and picnics, than He is to run a circus


    22. of my stay, but took me on a few drives and picnics within the local area


    23. It is also excellent if the community offers trips to cultural sites like museums, concerts, as well as picnics


    24. Tea parties didn't amount to much neither did picnics unless very well conducted


    25. I saw her often at Richmond, I heard of her often in town, and I used often to take her and the Brandleys on the water; there were picnics, fête days, plays, operas, concerts, parties, all sorts of pleasures, through which I pursued her,—and they were all miseries to me


    26. They stopped by the house on Bagley when Harry and Thula were away, piled Joe’s half siblings into the Franklin, bought bologna and day-old bread and milk at a corner store, and had quick picnics at Green Lake


    27. After Rose married Webster, we would go there for family picnics and gatherings


    28. They they knew who made good matches and who did not, who drank secretly, who were to organized bazaars and presided over sewing circles, they chaperoned balls and picnics, have babies and when


    29. The charity dinners, the harbor cruises, the corporate picnics where you plucked new business … he enjoyed them, didn’t he? He enjoyed having to turn on the charm, having had a little too much to drink


    30. He’d never thought much of Doris Tadelis back when they were all going to company picnics together, but it bothered him now that she would just assume he was the one to blame for the separation

    31. Fields and trees, women in flowing dresses on swing sets and men in suits having picnics


    32. It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence


    33. People went Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner to work Saturday through Thursday and gathered for picnics on Fridays in parks, on the banks of Ghargha Lake, in the gardens of Paghman


    34. I have admired you for so many years and yet, when we have danced or shared picnics at the lake, I have been unable to speak


    35. Their progress out of the city had been mildly hysterical, with cars shrieking and shoving them toward islands of wilderness praying for picnics that might not be found


    36. There was quite a bewildering succession of drives, dances, picnics and boating parties, all expressively lumped together by Phil under the head of "jamborees"; Alec and Alonzo were so constantly on hand that Anne wondered if they ever did anything but dance attendance on that will-o'-the-wisp of a Phil


    37. She was the belle of the balls and picnics, and they got up tableaux vivants in aid of distressed governesses


    38. The young people arranged picnics, and even parties, and sometimes went about the town in a regular cavalcade, in carriages and on horseback


    39. There were riding parties about the environs; excursions to the forest or the river; picnics, dinners in the open air; suppers on the great terrace of the house, bordered with three rows of gorgeous flowers that flooded with their fragrance the fresh night air, and illuminated the brilliant lights which made our ladies, who were almost every one of them pretty at all times, seem still more charming, with their faces excited by the impressions of the day, with their sparkling eyes, with their interchange of spritely conversation, their peals of ringing laughter; dancing, music, singing; if the sky were overcast tableaux vivants, charades, proverbs were arranged, private theatricals were got up


    40. There will be private theatricals, picnics, hunting, drinking, eating, piano-playing, singing, dancing,—in fact, incessant orgies

    41. Besides, two or three Sunday-school May festivals and picnics had been previously arranged to take place the same week, and so many of the pupils were absent; but we did the best we could, under the circumstances, each teacher having in her own room reviews and examinations of her classes, which have borne abundant testimony to the earnest, faithful and kindly work they have done


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    Synonyms for "picnic"

    breeze child's play cinch duck soup picnic piece of cake pushover snap walkover field day outing sure thing outdoor meal clambake barbecue

    "picnic" definitions

    a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering


    any undertaking that is easy to do


    any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion


    eat alfresco, in the open air