例文・使い方で印象づける「plucks」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... Spread out before her was a treasure, a million wrung from her fortune as a gleaner plucks the blue corn-flower from her crown of flowers... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...Inorder to steal it, Ivan adopts the following device: hetakes a cock, plucks it, and puts it alive under a clodof earth...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
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"As thin as a rail" means much to the cook who plucks one...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Twigs, leaves and grasses form the rude cradle for the eggs, and, as afinal touch of devotion, the mother bird plucks feathers from her ownsoft breast for the eggs to lie in...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
..."As thin as a rail" means much to the cook who plucks one...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Grasping the body with his talons,he deliberately plucks off all the large feathers with his beak, tearsoff the head, and swallows it at one gulp, and then proceeds todevour the rest piece-meal...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The nest, usually placed in a tuft of grass, is made ofdry grass mixed with down which the female plucks from her ownbody, and contains eight or nine eggs...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Now, however, her own stock of down is exhausted, and with a plaintive voice she calls her mate to her assistance, who willingly plucks the soft feathers from his breast to supply the deficiency...
John Ruskin 「Love's Meinie」
...Thenest is robbed of this down once before theeggs hatch out, with the result that thefemale plucks another store from her ownbreast, supplemented if necessary from thebody of the drake...
Frederick G. Aflalo 「Birds in the Calendar」
...Thus the person who plucks the first fruit from the treeand thereby receives the name of “the greatmondard” must be regarded as a representative of thetree-spirit...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Amongst the Alfoors of Minahassa, in Celebes, the priestsows the first rice-seed and plucks the first ripe rice in eachfield...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Then the priest plucks a little rice,first on his own field and next on those of his neighbours...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...” When the crop isripe, the owner takes the omens, goes to the field, plucks five orsix ears of barley in the spring crop and one of the millets in theautumn harvest...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...They right wrong by slaying wrong-doers,rather than by being crucified themselves; they are just murderers;but that only plucks the fruit from the tree of evil...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
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