of Pick

Pointed; sharp.

Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.

Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.

Carefully selected; as, a company of picked men; caused purposely; as, a picked quarrel.

We got into the country next year, picked out a little house. – Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories by Kathleen Norris

He picked up a couple and put them in his pocket. – The Egyptian Cat Mystery by Harold Leland Goodwin

So the mother picked up the baby and took it upstairs and told her husband, and they went to bed happy, for they had caught the dragon and saved the baby. – The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit

The child you picked up in the street. – The Nameless Castle by Maurus Jókai

From what I hear you've picked up quite a lot outside of office hours. – Youth Challenges by Clarence B Kelland

They picked me up; they brought me in. – The Promised Land by Mary Antin

Then a little boy who was playing saw her and picked her up. – The Sun's Babies by Edith Howes

And do you suppose he loves you, just because he has kissed you and given you this ring which he picked up in the car? – The Mayor of Warwick by Herbert M. Hopkins

Then he threw it from him and I picked it up. – Tempest and Sunshine by Mary J. Holmes

She picked him up very gently, and ran to show him to her father. – All About Johnnie Jones by Carolyn Verhoeff

" Dad," said Penny thoughtfully, " maybe the man we picked up really was Jay Kline." – Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery by Joan Clark

I- I picked it up. – In Luck at Last by Walter Besant

One hundred and two thousand five hundred isn't to be picked up every day. – Cord and Creese by James de Mille

Oh, we'll be picked up shortly. – Last Words by Stephen Crane

They told me that he picked up Sue's handkerchief. – Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony by Laura Lee Hope

We can't afford to have one of our order picked up in the streets by the world's people. – Susanna and Sue by Kate Douglas Wiggin

The horses ears picked up. – Joe Burke's Last Stand by John Moncure Wetterau

He reached into the pen, picked up the baby. – The Ultroom Error by Gerald Allan Sohl

He picked up our Book. – Fairy Prince and Other Stories by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott