Their ethereally fragrant blossoms were gone, plucked and strung together with needle and thread and packed off to Honolulu.
So many women and girls just gone, plucked out of existence, their lives reduced to family photos and names on cold cases, stained with sorrow.
For equipment, Mr. Harl said, the rule was "the moment you are not there, it is gone, plucked clean, truly like the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving".
So go on, pluck up your courage: you may think the competition is frighteningly hot, but then so does she.
"It's not like I go out, pluck them off the Idea Bush or pick up a few at the Idea Store," she has said.
"You go and pluck potatoes," Maier says, "so then when you eat potatoes it's very different, because you know where they came from and what it means to have them from the ground on your plate".
Like Sladen 100 years ago, I've been watching the inner workings of the nest – only with today's technology (and fewer nests to go and pluck out of the ground) I've had to contend myself with watching via the internet, rather than rearing a colony in my kitchen.
And so I went to work, plucking this plant and sparing that one.
"Then we'll go about plucking titles off the shelf to bring back for them to look at in the chair.
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