But enough of trying to "warm readers' hearts with the story of the plucky deaf girl," as she put it in her book.

The weight of his body almost tore the plucky girl loose from her anchorage; but she managed to hold her position.

The strip offers a light-hearted yet poignant look at the Bible through the eyes of an imaginative and plucky little girl.

Go through one door and you'd find the plucky, sweet-faced girl with the tear in her voice.

The men glared at the plucky little girl and then went to hunt over the island.

You don't really suppose we should forget those two plucky little girls, do you?

Through it all, the plucky girl insists her real parents are alive and probably marooned on an island somewhere.

There's the stout-hearted hero, the plucky girl, the malcontent, the adorable child.

It is a plucky, independent, unsentimental girl who survives to tell this story.

Her voice was that of a plucky teenage girl.