of Pick

Pointed; sharp.

Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.

Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.

Having a pike or spine on the back; - said of certain fishes.

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

Pointed.

Plucked off by the fingers; cleaned by separating with the fingers; opened by an instrument; carefully selected, as picked men.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We might be days, or even weeks, before we were picked up or reached land. – Paddy Finn by W. H. G. Kingston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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