She made no effort to pick up the shower of gold and silver.
— from The Mischief-Maker by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

“The great northwest!” echoed Tom, picking up the now despised string of bass.
— from The Bungalow Boys in the Great Northwest by John Henry Goldfrap

As early as 1428 we find them, when confronted by the outbreak of a private war in the north, endeavouring to patch up the quarrel by arbitration, instead of punishing the offenders on each side.
— from Warwick, the Kingmaker by Charles Oman

He rode to such good purpose that he did not expect to pull up till he had reached the camp where he had left the boys, and was riding along, with seven miles still to go, when he saw the blazing needle-bush.
— from In the Musgrave Ranges by Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey) Sayce

It may put forth new leaves, but it never essays to patch up the old ones.
— from Under the Maples by John Burroughs

Yet the Creeks and other Indians had the effrontery afterwards to assert that the Cumberland Country had never been ceded at all, and that as the settlers in it were thus outside of the territory properly belonging to the United States, they were not entitled to protection under the treaty entered into with the latter.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

This may at first sight be questioned; cases may readily enough be quoted, in which food has been bountifully supplied, and the plants have grown amazingly, but not fruited; if however, food had been thus supplied, in connexion with a due share of light , and an excess of heat had been avoided, we have natural evidence to prove unquestionably that fructification would have followed.
— from Theory and Practice, Applied to the Cultivation of the Cucumber in the Winter Season To Which Is Added a Chapter on Melons by Thomas Moore

The Underwood Constitution had provided for numerous additional office positions in an attempt to force the New England Township plan upon the Virginia County plan and to create positions for the many "Carpetbaggers" (northern politicians who came south to gain control of the local governments) and "Scalawags" (southern politicians who helped the "Carpetbaggers" get control).
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

When many guns are firing, it is not easy to pick up the splashes of one’s own shells, and to distinguish between their water-bursts and the camouflage put up by an enemy.
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone