How To Use Plucky In A Sentence
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Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old.
No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
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Every four years, our brave lads and lasses tend to venture to foreign slopes with faint expectations, which will be duly fulfilled, as they wind up racing to a plucky 32nd in the giant slalom or 29th in the luge.
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a plucky lampooner of the administration.
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Plucky Anna bounces back from her ordeal the next morning, so eager is she to get a Van Gogh back to the nice lady who deserves it, but a Romanian tycoon dispatches a tiny hit woman to steal the painting away.
Touch of Evil
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They upped the ante, too, with Cold Play's "Viva La Vida," done with plucky violin daring, of course, "Rasputin," and a very drummy swing standard that brought the house down.
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The romantic picture of the plucky David girding himself against the brutish Goliath is dangerously misleading.
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Manchester City moved three points clear at the top of Division One and extended their unbeaten home run to 14 games, but made hard work of disposing of plucky Preston.
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British cinema loves a plucky underdog character.
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Plucky firefighter Mark Murphy is back home from his heroic mission to help rescue people trapped in the Algerian earthquake.
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That mindset of being plucky underdogs against the giants runs through the team.
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The plucky youngster had to wait two years after her cancer treatment was complete before the operation could be carried out.
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As the plucky younger side you expected them to gamble.
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But, unbeknown to his grieving colleagues above, the plucky soldier had managed to discover a pocket of air - after making an amazing 90 ft dive completely unaided.
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Britain is not a nation of plucky losers.
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The story of this plucky underdog enthralled the British public.
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Neither play makes it to the podium, but both are better than plucky losers.
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Now staff at the surgery where she is being treated are trying to find a good home for the plucky pet who has already won their hearts.
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It is a classic tale of good and evil with an orphan hero, a plucky girl to befriend him, dastardly villains, a bit of a twist and an element of magic.
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WASHINGTON—The inspirational 1993 movie "Rudy" celebrates Daniel Ruettiger as a plucky underdog who overcomes long odds and his diminutive stature to earn a walk-on role on Notre Dame's legendary college-football team.
SEC Tackles 'Rudy' in Fraud Case
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Growing up in Boston, Charlie had met any number of these short, plucky, velvet-eyed ladies; they were as common in these parts as pachysandra and chrysanthemums.
Three Stages of Amazement
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British cinema loves a plucky underdog.
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It pulled at every populist heartstring, from the plucky woman warrior in a bright silk robe to the backdrops of peony branches and a red sunset over the Great Wall.
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Burn Through Bring Me My Queen City of Refuge The mix works, with Ms. Washburn's voice and plucky "clawhammer"-style banjo holding the center.
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And hours after he spoke, the Sox won the first of three elimination games in a row to win the AL Central and the team went from the doldrums to the heights of a "no one's expecting us to win" kind of plucky underdog.
Jon Greenberg: Big-Game Hunter
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There’s little evidence they are interested in trawling the blogosphere to find weight loss technqiues or tales of plucky kiddies beating the odds.
Why RSS will never “break through” « Squash
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You have to be pretty creative and energetic -- you have to be quite kind of plucky, to a certain extent.
Toby Young Can't Resist One More Prank at Soho House
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It was plucky of you to chase after the burglar.
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He will be admired as a plucky controversialist.
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The object of the bronies' fascination is "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic," a remake of a 1980s animated TV show for preadolescent girls featuring plucky, candy-colored equines.
Hey, Bro, That's My Little Pony! Guys' Interest Mounts in Girly TV Show
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The character would try to cover it in rather pathetic 'plucky' attempts; while I on the other hand have skull kleenex, and I bet you wish you had some too – take that Laura Wilder!
My haul of Halloween skull stuff and a lot of screaming
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She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.
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That mindset of being plucky underdogs against the giants runs through the team.
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Now we're the plucky underdogs.
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The queerest ship that ever sailed is a yacht on wheels, a graceful land-going clipper, that glides over the pathless stretches of sun-blistered plain, and carries her plucky navigators to and from their gold mine in the desert.
2008 April
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It seems like a waste of space to list the overabundant $75, $125 and $199 "deals," so it's lucky there are a few plucky places offering something a little different this Valentine's Day.
Not your usual Valentine's deals
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That mindset of being plucky underdogs against the giants runs through the team.
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Anyway, full marks for a plucky young lady, who braved this despite the fact that the water was very cold.
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As the plucky younger side you expected them to gamble.
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They've been through some tough times but the plucky little guys keep on going.
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When will documentarians learn that much of this material can stand on its own, without an alternately plucky and maudlin background score, telling us what to feel?
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A deranged angry woman disrupting a meeting is "plucky" and "stands up for herself".
If "every campaign is... a narrative," what's Hillary Clinton's narrative?
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Being both a princess and plucky, she not only survived all this but grew up to become a great and resplendent Queen.
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He was not a plucky loser, but a man with his finger on the pulse.
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A plucky pensioner told today how he was battered in the face by an armed robber as he bravely prevented a post office raid.
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After sweeping the Golden Globe awards, “Slumdog Millionaire,” the plucky movie about an uneducated underdog from the slums of Bombay who wins 20 million rupees on the local version of the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, has become the Oscar race overdog.
“Slumdog Millionaire”
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But the surrealism and political allegory into which this plucky show strays does not yet feel fully thought through.
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Plucky Girl Aviatrix's (plus pooch) plane nicking one girl rescue mission followed by boytoy and assassin instructress.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Tracking 1 - David R. Palmer
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A plucky woman kept a tight grip on her handbag during a tussle with a would-be robber.
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The plucky adventurer is also attempting to trek up Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in July.
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There’s little evidence [average consumers] are interested in trawling the blogosphere to find weight loss technqiues or tales of plucky kiddies beating the odds.
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For Pullman fans, this kind of plucky self-confidence must sound familiar: it's Lyra Belaqua, the novel's crafty protagonist, who travels from Oxford to the Arctic Circle -- aided by armored bears, flying witches and a truth-telling compass that only she can read -- to rescue her kidnapped best friend.
The Arctic Adventurer
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Charlie Baker's Facebook page, similarly once the exclusive preserve of unctuous "He's just so tall" verbiage, alternating with ugly vituperation, is now studded with rejoinders and tweaks from plucky digital campaigners ( "Well where the hell was Baker at in my community.
Progressives roar to life in MA: Blogs bloom with enthusiasm
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But frankly there was an embarrassment of plucky British winners last night.
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The plucky teenager managed to attend yesterday's ceremony despite being rushed into hospital earlier this week.
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Odd that the plucky, nervous goose has generated so much humor and lyricism 128 over the years.
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In addition to plucky songwriting, its sheer honesty offers a voyeuristic thrill: Clark sounds naked to the point of sexual, even when her subjects are far removed from impure thoughts.
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On the other, a wholly different set of images, of queues of frustrated holidaymakers fuming about missing their flights, of headteachers and plucky parents battling to keep classrooms open in the face of union bullying, a photographers' hunt to find Ed Miliband crossing a picket line, perhaps even a punch-up with the police, if the Daily Mail really gets lucky.
Public sector pensions: after the strike, the settlement | Editorial
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Yet since then this plucky British company has earned a reputation for consistently playful performances fuelled by fresh ideas.
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Could it be our plucky lads were actually playing with loaded dice?
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But frankly there was an embarrassment of plucky British winners last night.
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It's been suggested that the plucky -- and it's almost always described as plucky --
World Hum
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No one wants to be called plucky losers, do they?
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But seconds later the plucky rider had regained her composure and remounted her animal.
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The tidiest wing performance of the day came in West Ham's 1-0 win over Barnsley: a plucky, startled moggy somehow finding itself inside Upton Park, running the length of the pitch, doing a few step-overs then disappearing into the crowd.
Saturday Sundae: Jordan Rhodes's four-midable form continues
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Two plucky pensioners fought off a burglar who forced his way into their home.
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If England can set more challenging totals, they could yet make the leap from plucky losers to deserved victors.
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British cinema loves a plucky underdog.
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He directed Picon in his adaptation of Tzipke, in which she played a plucky ragamuffin much like Yankele, her signature role (performed, she hyperbolized, "3,000 times").
Jewish Women in Comedy - Molly Picon
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But in the course of this plucky little competitor's third contest, his opponent recognized him as the man he had just fought and had him disqualified.
Great Sporting Failures
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It seems the perils of plucky Paula are to continue, whether she wins or loses.
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But the plucky terrier survived - and emerged as the proud mother of two healthy pups.
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They've been through some tough times but the plucky little guys keep on going.
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I still think it was a plucky thing to do though, even if they were aided and abetted by the Bizzies.
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He directed Picon in his adaptation of Tzipke, in which she played a plucky ragamuffin much like Yankele, her signature role (performed, she hyperbolized, “3,000 times”).
Molly Picon.
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It represents Londoners as brave, plucky individuals determined to carry on with their lives come what may.
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Wits and guts - a plucky young woman's tale of escape.
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A plucky teenager successfully sued her own dad to force him to provide for her university education.
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But not only has the plucky youngster fought her way back to fitness, she has also excelled herself in the world of sport.
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They fight every kind of animal, goats, birds, even quails and larks, which are very plucky, and want to fight; but they pull them off if they want to ill-use one another too much.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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But seconds later the plucky rider had regained her composure and remounted her animal.
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These are songs built around a yearning violin, a plucky banjo riff or an accordion sigh.
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Plucky hotel pair Pat O'Driscoll and Ian Lane suffered an eye-watering leg wax to raise cash for the tsunami appeal.
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The plucky youngster, who is battling cancer of the spine, was delighted to be allowed home from hospital in time to watch the nail-biting final on television.
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Still, we plucky British like to keep cheerful in the face of adversity.
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Of the rest, Belgium was unlucky, despite giving a plucky performance in every game.
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The plucky 12-year-old rider and her trusty 15-year-old buckskin gelding weren't about to let opportunity escape them this year.
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British cinema loves a plucky underdog.
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2001-06-30: In which our plucky young hero thinks Manitoba is Latin for "several tobs".
Sirilyan Diary Entry
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And eep -- Talia is many things, but "plucky" has never been one of them :
Writing About Rape, Part II
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But he must have reckoned they would still be good enough to see off the plucky League Two outfit.
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His love life began at age 14, we learn, in the trailer of his lascivious Aunt Silbie and continues to this day with a lineup of lovelies — plucky, 40-ish, auburn-haired — who seem to find him irresistible.
Volatile Human Relations in a Capricious World
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This plucky young lady has been through so much and it would be wonderful if she overcame alopecia.
The Sun
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British cinema loves a plucky underdog character.
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We want to be winners, not plucky losers.
The Sun
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But the surrealism and political allegory into which this plucky show strays does not yet feel fully thought through.
Times, Sunday Times
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She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.
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The plucky farmer is understood to have startled the thief who eventually broke free and made his escape to a waiting car.
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It's not ideal but then it's a plucky, little club which thrives on the unexpected.
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Iona is a very plucky, determined, headstrong lady and is the unsung heroine in the whole of this saga.
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This plucky young lady has been through so much and it would be wonderful if she overcame alopecia.
The Sun
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Scotland might again be its own worst enemy, rubbishing a plucky enterprise which succeeded in publishing a handful of worthwhile books against the odds.
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A plucky mother-of-four tackled muggers who had snatched a handbag off a pensioner.
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British cinema loves a plucky underdog character.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neither play makes it to the podium, but both are better than plucky losers.
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When it came to grief after just a few days, there was widespread sympathy for a plucky young man.
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Shocked, but fuelled with the adrenaline of fury, this plucky young woman had given chase.
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The story of this plucky underdog enthralled the British public.
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Perhaps these plucky jobsworths are all that stands between civilised society and post - rock revolution!
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A plucky schoolboy fought off a robber who tried to steal his sweet money by elbowing him in the stomach.
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Plucky researchers had scrabbled to find a Traveller wedding to juxtapose with Kate and William's.
My Big Fat Royal Gypsy Wedding and William and Kate: In Their Own Words
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Now we're the plucky underdogs.
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The plucky youngster had four operations during her long battle against the illness.
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Her plucky exhortation that ‘with the help of God and some intestinal fortitude, many can change their lives, if they choose to do so’ made me want to wrap my bootstraps around her little neck.
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Still, we plucky British like to keep cheerful in the face of adversity.
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The plucky youngster managed to kick his attacker in the kneecap before getting free and running home.
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Not nearly, not plucky little losers, but the most hopelessly dreadful by a country mile.
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‘Your parents must have had a sense of humor,’ the broodingly handsome and plucky love interest says to Elektra about her mythopoetic name.
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British cinema loves a plucky underdog character.
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Bourchier's battery coming up in the nick of time, the hostile guns were soon silenced, and Gough, having succeeded in getting through the _jhil_, made a most plucky charge, in which he captured two guns and killed a number of the enemy.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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My own boy-hood was one of the best any American could have had, for I was a plucky young shaver who engaged in nothing but the most wholesome and vigorous activities!
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But the plucky youngster has now made a full recovery and is looking forward to a happy Christmas with her family.
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The plucky 31-year-old risked frostbite and serious muscle injury as she went through waves up to 4ft high.
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In which our plucky young hero thinks Manitoba is Latin for "several tobs".
Sirilyan Diary Entry
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Well yes, all right, he did admire the plucky little bleeder.
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The plucky pastor finally found the courage to tackle the hissing intruder.
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We all love an underdog, the plucky little contender who stands firm against insurmountable odds.
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No one wants to be called plucky losers, do they?
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We want to be winners, not plucky losers.
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The Pluckemin menu is wide-ranging, including simple "Plucky Classics" like Burgers and Fish and Chips, and five- and six-ingredient items like a Wild Alaskan Halibut, Cayuga freekeh, clams, mussels, calamari and saffron jus.
Pour Perks in New Jersey
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But he must have reckoned they would still be good enough to see off the plucky League Two outfit.
The Sun
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He was not a plucky loser, but a man with his finger on the pulse.
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The plucky farmer is understood to have startled the thief who eventually broke free and made his escape to a waiting car.
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Plucky says, -- and he has as much cool wisdom to impart as a traveller needs, -- when you make the unlively discovery that you are lost, ask yourself the three following questions: --
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861
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Fortunately, the gritty, plucky, scrappy, gutty scrapgutter is one of the subjects of the ever-awesome Hockey Diaries documentary series, which meant producer Gemma Hooley spent some time chatting with Hendricks about the deal.
Matt Hendricks on signing his contract
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The scores of assembled guests, numerous luminaries in their own right, crane with curiosity, eager to discover how a plucky Yale graduate once smuggled sex and politics and rock-and-roll past the gates of the nation's stodgiest newspaper muckety-mucks.
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Another ballad adopts plucky strings, airy keyboard and light drums.
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From the New York Times: It is the time of year when bedtime stories and television specials often recall the plucky reindeer and the little girl of Whoville who managed to save Christmas.
December 2005
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I'm actually old enough to remember the 1967 Six Day War, and was young enough then to be enthralled by the drama, and by the sheer panache of the "plucky" Israelis as they prevailed against all the odds.
Reaching the limits
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When it came to grief after just a few days, there was widespread sympathy for a plucky young man.
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Loans, grants, wage-subsidy programmes and uncompleted leases have also drawn back some plucky retail businesses.
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We were once again amazed how the plucky gallerist has managed to cram so many art works into such a tiny space.
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We all love an underdog, the plucky little contender who stands firm against insurmountable odds.
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Is that their coach or Jim Nantz's intern?" and the university awarded young head coach Brad Stevens a munificent, 12-year contract, nobody really thought the plucky Indianapolis school would be back so soon.
The Butler Bandwagon Rides Again
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Yet since then this plucky British company has earned a reputation for consistently playful performances fuelled by fresh ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, rather than mope, the plucky Canadian songbird decided to make the most of it.
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Not nearly, not plucky little losers, but the most hopelessly dreadful by a country mile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shocked, but fuelled with the adrenaline of fury, this plucky young woman had given chase.
Times, Sunday Times
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A plucky woman kept a tight grip on her handbag during a tussle with a would-be robber.
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The plucky 31-year-old risked frostbite and serious muscle injury as she went through waves up to 4ft high.
The Sun
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But, instead, the plucky teenager is an academic high-flier and the life and soul of his school, where his name is a byword for good natured generosity.
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But the plucky pensioner fought back, trying to push his attacker back outside his front door.
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When will documentarians learn that much of this material can stand on its own, without an alternately plucky and maudlin background score, telling us what to feel?
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And certain unprepossessing countries in even less prepossessing regions — Venezuela, Costa Rica, Russia, South Africa, and Tanzania — are acquiring brave, plucky innovators.
Mapping Innovation
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Pickford plays her customarily plucky heroine in a serio-comic role that borrows as much from Chaplin as it does the German expressionists of the period (check out that cinematography and the often-stunning chiaroscuro lighting).
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When the fearsome imaginary creature makes a surprise appearance, the plucky rodent again uses brain over brawn to avoid a nasty end.
The Sun
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Britain is not a nation of plucky losers.
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The man telling the story is timid and emotionally fragile, yet the boy he describes is plucky and dauntless.
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Not one, but two evil, giants circling our plucky chocolatier.
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And yet the Charade's plucky 1.0 litre engine will deliver you the fastest acceleration and the best maximum speed available in this class of car.