41.   An armadillo picked its way out of the nearby brush and dug for grubs and bugs as it came toward me.

42.   And she picked her way through the distractions and dangers of growing up in south Phoenix to graduate from high school and aspire to college.

43.   As deer picked their way along the nearby ridge, the human visitors imagined the emerald-green shoots that would cover the ground by next spring.

44.   As one man rushed down the steps of the auditorium, picking his way through a crowd of refugees, he heard a quiet voice just behind him.

45.   As we carefully picked our way over the rocks, he leaped from boulder to boulder, scanning each one for promising glints.

46.   As we spoke, I was picking my way through the pile of unopened mail beside my computer.

47.   At traffic circles and when crossing streets, the once reigning cyclists haplessly pick their way across four lanes of buses and cars.

48.   Aurora, however, must pick her way down the steps and carefully put her foot over the rim for her entrance, robbing it of spontaneity.

49.   At times Friday night, Frisell sounded downright ethereal, picking his way through notes as carefully as if he were threading a bed of nasturtiums.

50.   Beset by a throat infection, he barely picked his way through a generally unsettled evening.