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Cull

noun

The person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality. Synonym: reject.

verb

(past & past part. culled; pres. part. culling)

Remove something that has been rejected.

Look for and gather. Synonyms: pick, pluck. "Pick flowers"

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"Cull" Quotes from Famous Books

... The Saturday Review for June 19, 1875, has a long article on the change made by Gray in this stanza, entitled, "A Lesson from Gray's Elegy," from which we cull the following paragraphs: ...

— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray

... dare not go there," sighed the maiden; "not even to cull the sweet white water-lilies I wish so much, because my father fears I may meet some creature from below the water. Didst thou ever hear the like? But I think I might go with thee," she added wistfully, taking Lionel's hand. "No ...

— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

... march of his soul. For generations it has been sung in the little church at St. Mark's, where the great composer lies in an unknown grave. Had the Indian the combined soul of these masters in music, could he cull from symphony and oratorio and requiem and dirge the master notes that have thrilled and inspired the ages, he then would falter at the edge of his task in an attempt to register the burden of ...

— The Vanishing Race • Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon

... of us Can cull some sweetest treasure; Yet golden days, like golden leaves, Give pain as well ...

— Love or Fame; and Other Poems • Fannie Isabelle Sherrick

... then. Look here, Sal. I've got hold of a cull or I shouldn't be in this lackey's coat. The fool's bursting with gold and he wants someone to help him to spend it. I'll be hanged if there's another woman in London like you for that fun. Now's your chance. ...

— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce

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