Meanwhile, whether you pluck a leaf or slice a trunk, a plant neither grimaces nor cries out.
He plucks a leaf from a nearby pot-plant, wipes himself off, and drops it behind the bed.
"The male will pluck a leaf, or a set of leaves, and sit so the female can see him.
Reaching down to pluck a leaf from a tea bush planted more than a century earlier, Mr. Jha gestured toward the surrounding foothills.
Andreas Andreopoulos, who had written code for computer games all forty years of his adult life, remembered leaping to pluck a leaf from a tree, and opening a fashion magazine to smell the perfume inserts, and writing his name in the condensation on a glass of beer.
Dropping suddenly to his knees he plucks a leaf and holds it up for all to see.
On the rare occasion that I now come across one, I can't resist plucking a leaf, crumbling it between my fingers, inhaling that smell.
When going on a vacation, trip or somewhere special, take the time to pick a flower or pluck a leaf off a tree while you're there and when you return home, place it and press it in your diary.
She plucked a dead leaf, and dabbed at the soil to see if it was moist, a sign that the irrigation system that fed the pouch was ticking along properly.
Woodrow Wilson visited this place in 1896, and plucked an ivy leaf from Walter's grave.Everyone is mortal; yea, even political commentators.
Hohmann had plucked a large, rattling leaf from a forest-floor shrub that forms a key part of the bonobo diet, and he began to shred it slowly, as if eating it: bonobo researchers aim to present themselves as animals nonchalantly feeding rather than creepily stalking.
