pick on

Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four.

The majority pick up a job when they can, but are inevitably idle and suffering two-thirds of the time.

But if they all pick up the broadcast that this is where to get a free ride home, I'll have just another sand trap here.

Isabel longed for the time when she should enter them and pick up the threads dropped from her mother's nerveless fingers.