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Definition of Plucks
1. pluck [v] - See also: pluck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plucks
Literary usage of Plucks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... plucks the Letter G. Kick. Ill, i, 1. The mark of noon on a dial is in the
following passage jocularly called the ..."
2. Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of George III by Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1845)
"Ah, happy he who to life's latest hour Of the arts enamour'd, plucks their fruit
and flower ; He braves injustice, snail-pac'd time beguiles, Forgives his ..."
3. Odes and Other Poems by William Watson (1895)
"TO A LADY RECOVERED FROM A DANGEROUS SICKNESS LIFE plucks thee back as by the
golden hair— Life, who had feigned to let thee go but now. ..."
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