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.

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.

"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.