"You'll be paid for what you do for us," said Julia slyly, giving Kathleen a poke, at which they both fell into laughter only possible to the very young.

I got from them some ugly pokes, They made me a regular Scot.

"But in place o' that he steps in saftly, wi' the poker pointed like a swoord, and he gies it a poke, and down it a' tumbles together, head and a', in a heap o' bayans and dust, little meyar an' a hatful.

"You're so spry, s'pose you just pack this poke!"

You might reach Poking by morning and report to the American ambassador!"

He heard Olga's footsteps as she prowled around the house and deluded himself for a moment with the thought that she had gone on, when suddenly he saw her poking at the shutters, which she finally pressed open with the butt end of her shotgun, filling the room with sunlight and revealing the prostrate Markham, who started up in dismay which needed little simulation.

"Come on, you slow pokes, aren't you ever going to be ready?" "We're ready now," said Billie, putting an arm about Violet and hurrying her to the door.

"Say hi to Lovena for me, will you?" Alison drove out to the highway, and they spent the afternoon poking around, reaching the end of the road and turning back.

" The strange Bishop, aroused to a high pitch of anger, stopped his poking and started to knock Friar Rodriguez on the head, believing it to be a more sensitive part.

Like an honorable rural member of our General Court, who sat silent until, near the close of a long session, a bill requiring all swine at large to wear pokes was introduced, when he claimed the privilege of addressing the house, on the proper ground that he had been "brought up among the pigs, and knew all about them,"so

That something is the filing of a long point on the wire to enable the poking of the end of it through the draw plate so that it can be caught by the nippers.

T'ree cuts wid a knife, half a dozen pokes in the side, and a bullet scraping; the head, makes a man mindful of what has happened; to say nothing of the captain, and Madam Willoughby, and Miss BeulyGod for ever bless and presarve 'em all t'reeand, if there was such a thing as a bit of a church in this counthry, wouldn't I use this gould for masses?dat I would, and let the scalps go to the divil!"