34 adverbs to describe how to pokes

Again very softly Piers poked at the blazing logs, his eyes fixed and intent.

Now a cub, poking his nose industriously into every cranny and under every thick bush, would find a great roll of down plucked from the mother bird's breast, and scraping the top off carefully with his paw, would find five or six large pale-green eggs, which he gobbled down, shells, ducklings and all, before another cub should smell the good find and caper up to share it.

He approached ARCHIBALD, and poked him in the ribs, facetiously.

Teresita bantered, poking a slipper-toe tentatively towards the saddle, and clasping her hands in mock rapture.

" "If you don't believe in Him"Brown was poking vigorously now"why bring Him into the conversation?" Jennings laugheda short, ugly laugh.

I rummage and fumble about, excitedly poking my nose everywhere, till I find the crispy tip of a pink earHer ear.

The cows poked out their horns horizontally, as soon as he opened the barn-yard gate.

High words passed between them, and a violent quarrel was imminent, when a Bramble impudently poked its head out of a neighbouring hedge and said, "There, that's enough, my friends; don't let us quarrel.

Incidentally, he pokes fun at the literary fads of the day.

The bowl with its strange-looking contents arrested, of course, the attention of the observant Dodd, and, poking it inquiringly with a long-handled spoon, he turned to Viushin, who, as chef-de-cuisine, was supposed to know all about it, and demanded: "What's this you've got?" "That?" answered Viushin, promptly, "that's kasha" (hasty pudding made of rice).

"What do you mean, sir?" demanded the old lady, irefully poking at him with her umbrella.

They stopped when they saw us, and after exchanging greetings, laughingly poked fun at their vehiclefar less imposing than their well-groomed horses, but the only thing that could cover between seventy and eighty miles a day!

Cairns and Bedient kicked off their shoes into the tall, moist grass, and luxuriously poked their feet into the coolness; and presently they were watching unfold a really pretty bit of action.

It was hard to resist his simple good nature, and the girls came in time to accept him as an inevitable companion, and Louise mischievously poked fun at him while Beth conscientiously corrected him in his speech and endeavored to improve his manners.

Crossing the floor, he poked the fire noisily.

"Never mind that, they are frozen hard," replied Bradford, poking the mass practically.

Mäzli promptly poked her little nose into the bouquet, uttering an exclamation of unspeakable delight.

They lay inshore, not twenty feet from us, half out of water; they paid not the slightest heed to our presence, and only reluctantly left when repeatedly poked at, and after having been repeatedly hit with clods of mud and sticks; and even then one first crawled up on shore, to find out if thereby he could not rid himself of the annoyance we caused him.

The primeval family party, sadly poking about along the expanding margin of the world, noting how Abel Brown's tall chimney was beginning to show, and how Cain Jones' wigwam was clean gone.

"I must come up now and then too," said Mr. Russell, and poked his Hound secretly in the ribs.

But partner!" Incensed at such familiarity, the strange personage began poking Friar Rodriguez severely with his crosier on the stomach.

'Good heavens!' she exclaimed, poking the fire sharply.

He insisted that it was too late to think of reaching Bandipur, but we maintained that we could get at any rate part of the way; so he cast off from his willow-tree, and sulkily poked and poled out into the Wular, taking uncommon good care to hug the shore with fervour.

I poked my share suspiciously and asked what made it so black.

" "'I'll tell you what I'll do,' persisted the wavering doubter; 'if you will let this alone, I'll give you one hundred dollars to hire some one.'" "Colonel Conwell tranquilly poked the axe through.'

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