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"Poky" Quotes from Famous Books

... her incredulously. "How queer! But they haven't all got sisters, have they? It must be fearfully poky for the ...

— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton

... mumble that she alone knew the secret of restoring him to health, and that he was rendered peaky and poky only by people supposing ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... busy over a tub in her little wash-house, and came out into the kitchen on hearing some one at the door. She wore a print short-gown and petticoat, and a poky sun-bonnet; and her bare arms were reeking with soap-suds. Hetty shrank from her a little, and could not realize that she had ever belonged to a person with ...

— Hetty Gray - Nobody's Bairn • Rosa Mulholland

... brightest gold the reddish tinge in the girl's hair as she moves with dallying steps through the green fields. She is dressed in a white gown, decked with ribbons of sombre tint, and wears upon her head a huge poky bonnet, from which her face peeps out, half ...

— Rossmoyne • Unknown

... she had a nice place like this to be sick in. It must be very poky in those little rooms," said Jack, as his eye roved round the large chamber where he lay so cosey, warm, and pleasant, with the gay chintz curtains draping doors and windows, the rosy carpet, comfortable chairs, and a ...

— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott

... Stone, cordially. "You'll be put up for membership when you want to be. But we'll show you some fun. No use getting in with those poky F. C.'s. You'll never have a bit of fun if ...

— Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - or Solving the Campus Mystery • Alice B. Emerson

... first of many similar informal gatherings of grass-widows in poky rooms and cottage parlours. They were quite young for the most part, and many were pretty. They drank each other's tea and talked about their husbands and the price of things, and occasionally of happenings in an incredibly ...

— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

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