It was closed, but it wasn't fastened, as Reddy could tell by poking at it.
" cried Boxer, poking his funny little head under the brush on one side.
For more than three months they had lived under the great windfall in the Green Forest without even once poking their funny little noses outside.
Bear's great head come poking out and he was ready to take to his heels.
" But Aunt Elizabeth did not yet feel comfortable with a small niece skipping around New Moon, poking into everything insatiably, and was resolved that Emily must go to school to get her out of the way.
" asked Jimmy Skunk, stealing up behind Peter and poking him in the back.
Together they scampered about in the moonlight, hunting for good things to eat, and poking their inquisitive little noses into every little place they could find.
Once more he climbed up to his little round doorway and there he waited some time before poking even his nose outside.
If you've done your tea I've a few little things you might like to look at—picked 'em up in the queer corners I used to be poking my nose into.
"I suppose you'll study cockleology instead of boating, and read up on polywogs while we play tennis, or go poking round with your old spy-glass instead of having a jolly good time," said Jack, hauling away on the strap till all was taut and ship-shape with the bundle.
STORY XV UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE GREEN RUSHES Once upon a time Uncle Wiggily Longears, the nice rabbit gentleman, was taking a walk in the woods, looking for an adventure, as he often did, when, as he happened to go past the hollow tree, where Billie and Johnnie Bushytail, the two squirrel boys lived, he saw them just poking their noses out of the front door, which was a knot-hole.
An old gypsy woman was seated on the ground nursing her knees, and occasionally poking a skewer into the round kettle that sent forth an odorous steam; two small shock-headed children were lying prone and resting on their elbows something like small sphinxes; and a placid donkey was bending his head over a tall girl, who, lying on her back, was scratching his nose and indulging him with a bite of excellent stolen hay.
" "That may make me feel badly tomorrow, Josie," laughed Anne, "but just now I honestly feel that as long as I know the violets are coming out all purple down in the hollow below Green Gables and that little ferns are poking their heads up in Lovers' Lane, it's not a great deal of difference whether I win the Avery or not.
Don't want 'em poking and prying about.
Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.
They went about poking sticks into the sand, and when they found a soft place they went down on their knees and dug with their hands.
And one great shark came near to the ship, and poking his nose out of the water he said to the Doctor, "Are you John Dolittle, the famous animal-doctor?
She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells that came from the palace-kitchen.
But there it was, a goofy frog head poking out of the 70% cool water-30% dirt mixture of his flower pot.
"If your goal is to lose fat, skipping sleep is like poking sticks in your bicycle wheels," Penev said.
