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Amid unsettling small sounds, sliding tones, long-held pitches and well-plucked heartbeat strings, the violas, in their middle-way range and manner, kept the balance.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

He's a well-plucked one, though, took the lead and kept it, and when it was over, treated us to usquebaugh at Luckey Doughty's store.

From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Johnston, Mary

Where the public were permitted to listen is bare and shabby as a well-plucked client.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

"That's a rare well-plucked little 'un!" cried Joe Baillie.

From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Dicky was well-plucked though, bad as he was.

From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur