"Pluck at" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I will not try," she hastily interrupted, beginning to pluck at her red shawl in the frenzied way of delirious fever patients. "If we are caught, they will torture us, torture the child before my eyes. They treat him well now and leave me alone as long as I do not try to break ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut |
