For a long time Peter sat[6] and stared at that entrance and wished he dared just poke his head inside.
Toad, for he was always good-natured and attended strictly to his own affairs; but they liked to poke fun at him, and as for there being anything beautiful about him, such a thing never entered their heads.
Whitefoot would poke his head out of his doorway and there, sure enough, would be Timmy scrambling up towards him.
"Is that any good reason why he should poke her new suit into the kitchen stove?
He thought he'd poke round a bit—Captain Jim was always meddlesome, just like a man—and he went to inquiring round among the sailors' boarding houses and places like that, to see if he could find out anything about the crew of the Four Sisters.
A word of praise to Roxy made that grateful scrubber leave her work to poke about in the root-cellar, choosing "sech as was pretty much of a muchness, else they wouldn't bile even;" so Merry was spared that part of the job, and went up to scrape and wash without complaint, since it was for father.
But not alone, for grouped all about his pedestal were Washington and his generals, the matrons and maids, with a background of troops shouldering arms, Grif and Joe doing such rash things with their muskets, that more than one hero received a poke in his august back.
" and Frank gave him a playful poke that nearly sent him off his perch.
She had a pink kerchief tied over her head, making a little poke to shade her eyes from the level sunbeams, while she was giving a glorious swing to Letty, who laughed and screamed wildly.
Yet if she had entered before a still audience as Imogene or Cato's daughter, the dress might have seemed right enough: the grace and dignity were in her limbs and neck; and about her simply parted hair and candid eyes the large round poke which was then in the fate of women, seemed no more odd as a head-dress than the gold trencher we call a halo.
If you have, and if you were at that time still young enough to be interested in everything you saw, you will remember that you found yourself quite unable to resist the temptation to poke your finger into the soft round of dough that curved inside the pan like a giant mushroom.
"You young folks can poke fun at me if you want to," said Grandaddy Beaver, "but I'm a-going right ahead and make my house as strong as I can.
Right yonder's where I saw Injun Joe poke up his candle, Huck!
The man who owns this land said I could poke around here anytime.
From the potato-loving Irish to the pretentious French, these tumblr users perfectly poke fun at their traditions, unmasking the cornerstones of their most beloved foods.
There'll be those who respond well to an open conversation and removing tensions in a mature way, and there'll be those who'd rather flex the boss muscle or constantly poke at you with borderline unprofessional comments.
As a meal choice it is on the decline, losing ground to seitan burgers and poké bowls as millennials run scared of the humble spud.
Most CDs balanced on one finger 1CD The record is : 50 :50 Why it is difficult : Because, you aren't allowed to poke your finger through the CD's hole.
If you don't know what we're talking about, you should lift up your shirt in the name of scientific adventure and have a good poke around in your belly button.
If you don't know what we're talking about, you should lift up your shirt in the name of scientific adventure and have a good poke around in your belly button.
