"Hooky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had been two rollicking boys off on a lark together—playing hooky, perhaps—and in the twinkling of an eye some wicked fairy had waved her wand and metamorphosed them into Walter's two grandfathers, who had not spoken to each other since years before the lad ...
— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know • Various
... against his will, trapped by masterstrokes of craft; Helpless in his froth-wrath as green logs seethe! Safe the tender lambs tugged the teats, and winter sped Whirled before the crocus, the year's new gold. Hung the hooky beak up aloft, the arrowhead Reddened through his feathers for our dear fold. God! of whom music And song and blood are pure, The day is never darkened That ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... cheery, cheery, cheery; Trowl the black bowl to me; Hey derry, derry, with a poup and a lerry, I'll trowl it again to thee. Hooky, hooky, we have shorn, And we have bound, And we have ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne
... the colour of thick white honey; his hair was very dark, and he had long blue eyes and long black eyebrows like bars, drawn close down on to the blue. His nose would have been hooky if it hadn't been so straight, and his mouth was quiet and serious. When he talked to you his mouth and eyes looked ...
— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair
... Gnat," he whispered, "this is too bad." For the doctor had raised the leg, and, after taking off the handkerchief, roughly tied round just above the knee, made no scruple about slitting up the lad's trousers with an ugly-looking knife, having a hooky kind of blade. ...
— Blue Jackets - The Log of the Teaser • George Manville Fenn
... days of the post-office were when the letters were conveyed officially in a creaking old cart from Tilliedrum. The "pony" had seen better days than the cart, and always looked as if he were just on the point of succeeding in running away from it. Hooky Crewe was driver; so-called because an iron hook was his substitute for a right arm: Robbie Proctor, the blacksmith, made the hook and fixed it in. Crewe suffered from rheumatism, and when he felt it coming on he stayed at home. Sometimes his cart came undone in a snowdrift; when Hooky, ...
— Auld Licht Idylls • J. M. Barrie
... eyelash, agreed that nothing was more likely. They found the cave—or some cave—but nothing else. Their disappointment weighed lightly upon them, and the detective enjoyed the day with all the artless abandon of a schoolboy playing hooky. ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston |
