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pickings
1. The pickings became sour and few, you hungered endlessly and the glories and splendours of your surroundings grew shabby and mean
2. of this area made very poor pickings
3. Using a special tool, that had been cleaned and stuffed, left in the remaining eggwhite and steam baked til it's all falling apart for the pickings
4. So far he had been correct and the first small village that they had come to, Moat Wood, although half deserted, had provided fair pickings
5. Despite the lesson she’d taught the border collie on the front porch and my own love of the woods, I feared that the wild animals who lived there, coyote, badger, fox, and raccoon, would make easy pickings of my sweet, innocent cat
6. However he must have found a better target as the gun traversed away from me and did not return he must found easier pickings
7. twice daily, but the pickings were slim and my time in Holland was running out
8. I am looking for a job but the pickings are mighty slim
9. Brazil was the only Portuguese speaking country on the continent but it was huge and filled with good pickings for an entrepreneur like Cortez
10. They said it would be easy pickings because the
11. It was not hard to picture him coming to the conclusion that a big ship staffed only with civilians would be easy pickings for an aggressive boarding party
12. Settlers and sailors had easy pickings
13. cats, were easy pickings
14. ’ The job having promised such rich pickings, ‘Professor’ Gurr, whom, I imagined, had concocted the original scheme, had demanded a larger share and this had led to the falling out of the two rogues- and incidentally, to my discovering the truth! It suddenly occurred to me that the mysterious remark about ‘-sorting out a black-” referred, not to an aborigine but to Martin Gurr
15. Stock Psychic to help you with your stock pickings and analysis
16. In the 'New Europe' Italy would be rewarded with rich pickings
17. At this stage we’d like to go for the easy pickings and later we’ll use tools that will really help us leverage
18. As the play progressed, she increased the number of pickings from the spread and yet didn’t let the tossed-up one slip through her guard
19. The aborigines, the original titleholders of the land, made outcastes by the Aryan settlers in later years, became ready pickings for the Islamic tabliq, and being the victims of the Brahman social suppression besides the Aryan cultural oppression for so long, those native souls might have felt avenged by the Islamic intrusion into Hindustan
20. Watching them pick over the pickings in the back
21. With that cruel realization, I second-guessed my decision to run into the woods, but staying in the truck and being easy pickings for the deranged Rambo wasn’t an option either
22. Bob’s undead belly grumbled at the prospects of easy pickings
23. The entire area was virgin pickings
24. Poor, dumb, and ignorant, the young boy would be easy pickings if Alvin could keep this whole land deal under his hat until he could find out a little bit more about the goings on that were taking place over at that dead well-digger’s property
25. ‘Plentiful pickings from humans there are,’ he replied with his
26. pickings, but he had no idea of the goldmine he had just stumbled
27. Its pickings are within reach
28. The pickings at the commissary were always slim, however
29. Of course, the advertiser was readily available to sell you his expert stock pickings for a fee
30. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process called double pickings
31. Why? Competition among many profit-seeking agents eliminates any easy pickings
32. these were all the governess would require for her private perusal; and, indeed, they contented me amply for the present; compared with the scanty pickings I had now and then been able to glean at Lowood, they seemed to offer an abundant harvest of entertainment and information
