When he could stand it no longer, Boxer stole out to the entrance and poked his head out from under the great windfall.
Woof-Woof poked Boxer and pointed down at the water.
[21]And the first time they had poked their heads out, Peter Rabbit had given them a terrible scare by thumping the ground with his hind feet.
First came[9] surprise, as he saw those two little heads poked out of Mrs.
Sometimes he poked the fire—Emily loved that part of the performance—sending glorious streams of rosy sparks upward into the darkness; sometimes he stirred the potatoes with a long pole, looking, with his queer, forked grey beard and belted "jumper," just like some old gnome or troll of northland story mixing the contents of a magical caldron; and sometimes he sat beside Emily on the grey granite boulder near the pot and recited his poetry for her.
The wonder is that you weren't killed when you poked your head out right in front of Farmer Brown's boy.
Reddy Fox poked his head out and—looked straight into the freckled face of Farmer Brown's boy and the muzzle of that dreadful gun!
Unc' Billy Possum poked his sharp little old face out from under the henhouse and watched them go.
She merely poked her nose in at a splendid hole beneath the roots of an old stump.
He had just poked his nose out that little round doorway when there was the most terrible sound.
He knew that Whitefoot had seen Whitey arrive on that stump and that was why he had dodged back into his hole and since then had not even poked his nose out.
Of course Whitefoot heard them go out, and right away he poked his little head out from under the pile of wood to see if the way was clear.
Last night I went with Judy to water the cows and in the spruce bush we found a WASPS' NEST and Judy thought it was AN OLD ONE and she POKED IT WITH A STICK.
His relatives put up a very expensive, very ugly "monument"—a monument at which he would have poked sly fun had he seen it in life.
Here's this poor old Matey of mine"—Captain Jim reached out a hand and poked the big, warm, velvety, golden ball on the sofa.
He sailed all his life till five years ago, and there's no corner of the earth he hasn't poked his nose into.
Two hours passed, during which the apes took care not to show themselves, but they were still there, and three or four times a nose or a paw was poked out at the door or windows, and was immediately saluted by a gun-shot.
In general, Pencroft, Herbert, and Neb walked first, preceded by Top, who poked his nose into every bush.
Pencroft then twisted the piece of paper into the shape of a cone, as smokers do in a high wind, and poked it in among the moss.
The old woman, seeming to forget Maggie's hunger, poked the skewer into the pot with new vigor, and the younger crept under the tent and reached out some platters and spoons.
