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But you seem a well-plucked one, and what with your crutch How did you come by it?" "Kick of a pony." "Seems to me you've been a good deal mixed up with animals, for your age. What about your pa and ma?" "Never 'ad none, I thank Gord." "Eh?" The young man laid down his shovel, lifted the flap of his sou'wester, and scratched the back of his head slowly. "Let me get the hang o' that, now."
"Good old Nan! She's a well-plucked 'un," was Barry's comment when she had finished. "Of course it's splendid of her," said Kitty. "Nan was always an idealist in her notions but in practice it would just mean purgatory. And I won't let her smash up the whole of her own life, and Peter's for an ideal!" "How do you propose to prevent it, m'dear?" "I propose that you should prevent it." "I? How?"
He's as well-plucked as they make them, Jack and straight as a string. Want to make him a proposition to join us? Those were the lines he had penciled on the envelope. Beneath them I wrote two words: "Suits me." Jimmie's mother had consented to let him go on with us. Now I took him away to get some necessary wearing apparel, leaving Blythe to make a proposition to Yeager.
Through creeks and rivers and swamps he led that poor fellow. His boots got chuck full o' cold water, and when the sun went down it friz into solid hice; and that misfortnit man he felt his legs which was his life, you see, ma'am gradially dyin' under him. Yet he was a well-plucked one, if ever there was such a party on this airth.
He's a well-plucked one, though, took the lead and kept it, and when it was over, treated us to usquebaugh at Luckey Doughty's store. Well, we run the fox to earth in a Chickahominy village. Lord! I'm sorry for the half king of the Chickahominies! He'll have to answer to Governor and Council for letting red fox burrow in his village. Found him squatted in a sassafras patch.
She was a well-plucked woman for seventy-five, was Bessie Bussow; and had a head on her shoulders too. While Tummels was harnessing, she fit and boiled a dish o' tea to fortify herself, and after drinking it nipped into the cart as spry as a two-year-old. Off they drove, and came within sight of Stack's Folly just about the time when Phoby Geen was bringing the Fly into St. Ives harbour.
Wagons, carts, motortrucks and all manner of wheeled things were scuttling about Blitherwood as he shot down the long, winding avenue toward the lodge gates, but he paid no attention to them. They were removing the remnants of a glory that had passed at five in the morning. He was not interested in the well-plucked skeleton.
"I expect he does," said Victor, "though he is too well-plucked to complain. The doctor told me the other day that these fluctuations are part of the disease, and mean no real improvement. He does not give him long, though he thinks it will probably be six months or more.
"Sure enough we were literally covered over with the down in which we had been sleeping, and when I saw what a jest the poor Dean, with his sore head, made of the plight we were in, I forgot all my own troubles and joined in the laugh with him. "We now fell to work picking each other, as the Dean had suggested, and were soon as clean of feathers as any other well-plucked geese.
And I was remarking to Bill Baxter, just now, that it was just our captain's luck to have found such a regular sailor's young woman, so I said begging pardon for the word. And not more than he is worth, says he, and so said I also. And she the wrong lady after all! Well, it's a curious thing, sir, nobody could be like to guess it from her. She's a well-plucked one, with her wound and all.
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