They only talk like that because mowing the lawn sounds great when you're sitting in a foxhole picking lice off your nuts.

Her only consolation was that these people certainly picked nits, lice, fleas and what have you quite regularly.

Bad enough he picked lice from her hair in front of an audience, but to tell his best friend that he had slept with her?

They said that darkness reigned during winter but that the summers were bright enough to pick lice from one's clothing.

The start of school can also mean the start of head lice season, and the unpleasant choice of picking lice out or poisoning them.

Out in front of the huts, a few toddlers stood stoically in the mud as bored young mothers picked lice from their hair.

When human excrement had become ankle-deep between the lodges and people were picking lice from each other's heads for food, the relief force at last arrived.

I said I'm going home,' repeated Twoflower, making polite little attempts to shake off the librarian, who was trying to pick lice off him.

You're picking lice off yourself, you're pushing the cops, you've been arrested, you're raping and molesting!

Three slaves were sitting on the floor in a corner, picking lice out of clothes.