A grandiose, later evangelical mother, collaborating with a sullen, sometimes drunk, often absent father, told Armantrout all kinds of things about the sort of person she was: a tomboy, a "little Jesse James," an adorably plucky "stand-up gal".
Now our plucky band stood frozen in the sand of a dry riverbed, straining eyes and ears against the dawn.
Wearing comfortable trousers and nursing pints of brown ale, lots of plucky amateurs stood up and sang, sharing tales of lost, but never forgotten love.
Though the rebels were "a plucky set of fellows," he said, "I do not think they can stand it much longer".
IN PROTEST at France's refusal to import British beef, a few plucky Britons are making a stand.
The plucky star of my feminist awakening.
The Angels stole 117 bases this season compared with 78 for their opponents (the Yankees stole 100 bases) and have a lineup that is pesky, plucky and persistent, especially Eckstein, who stands all of 5 foot 8 and weighs 170 pounds.
Alicia, played by Julianna Margulies, is one of the few plucky network heroines who doesn't always stand up for her ideals -- sometimes she sinks willingly into the expediencies and selfish choices that cloud real life.
Feiko Kloppenburg and Edgar Schiferli mounted a gauche but effective opening stand, and there were nuggets of plucky batting as Holland compiled their highest total in five World Cup matches.
There was a distinct whiff of 1939 and all that in the reaction of British Conservatives to the way the plucky Poles had scuppered the EU constitution and "stood up to the Germans".
This collection stands in opposition to the picture of a plucky gal at cocktail hour, like the ladies from "Sex and the City," who proudly subverted old gender stereotypes of propriety around drinking.
