When the chance comes you just poke that ball out into deep center, and then roll down to first as fast as you can.
But you'd better try to poke out Herb over the wire," came the reply.
He even went so far as to poke the defunct fish in the side with his finger and pretend to ask the captive if it were really so.
Very much better, thank you," replied Charlie, while Howard gave him a stealthy poke with his foot.
Howard had whispered to his sister, as the maid came in at dinner-time, with the strings of her dainty white cap tied under her chin, and the point standing up from her forehead like an old woman's poke bonnet.
At the ring of the steel-whistle which I carried round my neck, Grip came bounding from the Inn to meet me, and with mutual confidence we began to poke about, for something to afford a hunt.
He and Thad stood looking at the actions of the other scouts as they moved their rude beds here and there, striving to find spots where there were no roots sticking up, that would poke into their sides or backs.
This precaution is necessary to keep out its predatory cousins belonging to the Errantia, who poke in their heads and eat the tube-dwelling worms.
The "heads" of the animals poke out at the end of each branch (see Fig.
You may if you'll promise not to poke fun at us if we fall down," replied Jessie.
And till his departure he never ceased jeering at me, now and then giving me a poke in the ribs with his elbow, and addressing me by my Christian name.
Blinkard contemptuously, giving him a poke with his elbow, and both, stooping, entered the low doorway.
He wouldn't have been called Poke Nose; there wouldn't have been any snowballs nor brickbats nor shooting.
Say, Poke Nose; how much are ye going to get for the job?
The schoolboys called him "Poke Nose" because he was ever ready to poke into other people's affairs.
I shall see the whales spout and the porpoises play, and poke my nose into foreign parts," she said playfully.
How dare you poke one out of the window, right toward one of our largest banks, and go out, leaving the mechanism clicking?
Twould be an error just as big To poke your purchase in a pig.
And, after dinner, round the fire, Astride of Grandpa's rugged knee, Implore your bored but patient sire To tell you what a Poke may be.
In purchasing a Book of Jokes, Pray pokearound and take your pick.
Murphy and me could make it right, If like a Lancashire lad I could fight, I’d pokeout the eyes of Jackey Bright, And punch the shins of Gladstone.
Gerrit tried to put on his genial bellow and to poke fun at Ernst about the vases and the souls, as he used to; but it was no good.
And this twittering produced a brightness in his heart, so that he began to smile and then to poke fun at Klaasje, the baby in her baby-chair, sitting beside him rather stupidly.
You won't chiack or poke borak at his grey and honoured head when, by reason of his endowment of adipose tissue, his wind gives out?
Camp McClellan wake up in a hurry, and poke their heads out of the hills to see where the cannonading was.
So first they tried to poke their noses under the log, but the plaguy old thing wouldn't stir.
The mathematics that Baker said a kid could pokeholes in.
Any freshman math major could poke holes all through this mathematical explanation he offers.
Even the last morning, when we four were breakfasting together by candle-light to come up by an early express train, he made a last good poke at him.
He'll be long enough of coming if we don't go to poke him up a bit.
It does hurt so bad I can't help crying, and you don't look as if you liked to poke people to pieces.
She can poke more real education into a fellow's head in a minute than Miss Phelps can in a day.
Take your knife and in four rattans make slits long enough to poke the other four rattans through.
Illustration: "Make slits long enough to poke the other rattans through.
THE MAYOR addressed them as they passed out; "Go and get long poles, Poke out the nests and block up the holes!
