111 collocations for pokes

Out of her just-closed door Mrs. Finshriber poked a frizzled gray head.

when Washington poked its nose in front of the Red Sox and started after the White Sox, only to be driven back into third place by the men of Callahan themselves.

And he went on poking his fun till suddenly the Boy said: "You're in such high spirits, I suppose you must have heard Maudie's up from Minóok.

Beaumaroy sat down on the stool opposite to her, and poked the fire.

" "What makes you think that?" laughed the Boy, poking his brown fingers through the knee-hole of his breeches.

"I poked a stick into the aperture which the crawfish had made."

Then Japan, the thirteenth, poked out her yellow face and demanded Kiau Chou.

Again he poked his way out to take an observation.

For instance, the Captain always asked his servant if she had fed his cat, and old Rose invariably would sulk and poke out her lips and put off answering to the last possible moment of insolence, then would grumble out that she was jes 'bout to feed the varmint, an' 't wuz funny

"You just poke holes in the paper through the squares, eh, and they turn into humps?"

Had a muskrat poked its pointed muzzle over a rock, or a squirrel scuttled in that instant down the bark of a tree, he would most likely have collapsed without more ado and fainted.

We have had luncheon, and I have been poking things out of my cabin trunk, and furtively surveying onethere are two, but the other seems to be lost at presentof my cabin companions.

He, too, expressed entire confidence in the Turk's ability to stop any farther advance and, calling an aid, sent us to the periscope, which poked its two eyes through a screen of pine branches a few yards away, and looked over the parapet and down on the first-line trenches and the sea.

He was investigating the contents of his box, poking a fat, dirty forefinger around among its fluttering contents.

"If you wait there on Thursday evening between seven and eight I will come, if I can, and will poke my hand through the hole in the wall.

One fat brown baby sat in a doorway poking a pudgy thumb into a saucer of food and keeping very watchful eyes on the strangers.

They wished continually to turn their heads backward, poke their bills under their wings, and go to sleep.

Dong-Yung said, poking the toe of her slipper in and out the sunlight.

" Constance had set to work poking the fire logs with the tongs.

I finally compromised by accepting a free pass, and agreeing to poke the ribs of all the cattle I could reach, just as though I was a bona fide official.

Luke poked a good-sized piece of the sake under the cage cover.

and then she told pa that they had been fed on that deceased elephant, until they all felt like they had trunks growing out of their heads, and pa poked the meat with his fork, and thought it was elephant, and he lost his appetite, and everybody laughed.

George and Harry provided themselves with long poles, with which to "poke" the fox out of his refuge.

" She poked the last embers of the fire into a little blaze, and the light and the lively measures of the song took Oh-Pshaw's mind off the gurgling water.

it seemsbut I have got ita Bank-of-England note of £100locked up in that desk;" and he poked the end of his cane against the brass lock of it viciously.

111 collocations for  pokes