Sentence examples for for plucking up from inspiring English sources

The proceedings of the Old Bailey show that several thieves were sent to the penal colonies "for plucking up, digging up, breaking, spoiling, and carrying away" flowers, shrubs and trees.

A refusal after plucking up the courage to request a smear could be even more offputting than having someone poke around your cervix for five minutes.

I stood there, not knowing what to do: either go back and wait for dawn, or pluck up my courage and risk it.

So if £85,000 can be plucked up for a glass window, why can't we rustle up 60p a head?

Once I tell Marina that a free daily coach service to Mecca Bingo in Camden will be piloted for eight weeks, she plucks up slightly.

But before that happens, Mr. Lin said, he suspects that some bigger company will come along and pluck up Vonage for its customer base.

Not until March, for example, did the government even pluck up the courage to admit that the overall tax burden had risen on its watch.

Most of them don't plan on sobering up until the youngest has gone to university and they have plucked up enough courage to ask for a divorce.

I've been trying to pluck up the courage to do this for months, but once again I lose my nerve and run.

For every dollar of retail revenue it loses, BellSouth should pluck up to 85 cents of wholesale business from competitors.

You never pluck up because you rip the flesh.