pick one's way
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To pick one's way in the dark over strange ground littered with débris is not an easy task.
From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Malins, Geoffrey H.
That is why a perambulation of the stalls is as perilous as to pick one's way through hot ploughshares.
From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard
Nets, coils of ropes, big sails, baskets, boxes, odd bits of iron, some anchors—one has rather to pick one's way.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
If one is fighting, you know, one cannot stop to pick one’s way.
From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew
One might pick one's way on stilts, or with cleat-boards, but in my present weakness I dared not adventure either method.
From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur
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