picked

Robert soon settled to work, and picked steadily and rapidly.

If he had been picked up by any vessel I suppose he would have written.

When she had gone he picked up an envelope and put a bill inside.

Pierre dropped his powder-flask, and one of them picked it up and gave it to him.

She still held the two she had picked up from the floor in her one hand.

He led the way into the house and picked up one of the posters, which lay on the floor.

They were a hard-faced lot; he had not picked them for tenderness.

He sat down and picked up the newspaper, and the print was clear.

In the meantime someone had picked up the trail to the cliff, and Dozier followed it.

When he opened the box, the first book which he picked up was The Conquest of Fear.