In its anxiety to reach the honey the bee pokes its head as far into the spur as possible, but it gets in only a fraction of the full length of the tube.
Ned says, as he pokesthe fire in the brightly-polished grate.
Mr. Glen pokesthe grass thoughtfully with his cane.
I was obliged, therefore, to bow in sad acquiescence, when my father called to James Wilkinson to bring the two bits of pokes he would find on his table.
But so soon as the harebrained goose saw the pokes [Process-bags.
Then he falls asleep in the box, and snores so deeply that Manager Rich, who has been in the front of the house, pokes his inquisitive face into the poorly-lighted auditorium, and quickly pokes it back again.
He pokes her head between the bars, And melts off half her nose!
Robert takes a stick, Pokes and breaks the clock, which Ceases soon to tick.
He will never be able to pull with her if he pokes over the weekly bills, insists on knowing how much each thing is per pound, and what he is going to have every day for dinner.
For ourselves we do not believe the first part at least of Archbishop Whately's definition of woman: "A creature that does not reason, and that pokes the fire from the top.
Then she gives three or four pokes as if she were hammering it down.
She pokes and prods each tiny bunch as she brings it, till she makes it all hold together.
Then she runs her long, slim bill down its throat, and pokes the food in with little jerks.
He even has a jest about the feathers of the Holy Ghost, pokes fun at the Saints, etc.
As time went on this became more and more his habit; it is always the evil spirit who is at his heels, at whose person and doings, Luther, following his bent, pokes his jokes.
A stray inmate pokes his head out of the trenches and essays to go to the spring for water.
The mountain pokes its cold head up into the clouds, and is continually refreshed by the dews of heaven.
Now he sits upon his haunches and takes a deliberate survey, then pokes some greens into his mouth with his forepaws.
Soon the chipmunk is on the wall, and the woodchuck warily pokes his head from his burrow.
The borer swallows these, and then pokes down its tooth-ribbon once more.
When the elephant wishes to feed, it seizes the food with its trunk and pokes it into its mouth.
And then it pokes the tooth-ribbon down into the body of the creature inside, and draws it back again.
In the shell of a sea-urchin are a number of little holes, through which the animal pokes out most curious sucker-like feet when it wants to climb about over the rocks.
Then it pokes one claw carefully into this cage, seizes the prisoners, pulls them to pieces, and pokes the fragments into its mouth.
It has eyes like telescopes, so that as soon as a mouse pokes its head out of its burrow it catches sight of it, swoops down upon it, seizes it in its talons, and carries it off to be devoured.
And finally, after allowing the milk to run away, it pokes its hind claws, which are very slender indeed, through the opening and picks out the white fleshy part of the nut a little piece at a time.
And as the tongue is drawn back into the mouth it pokes them down the throat; so that frogs do not even have to take the trouble of swallowing their dinner.
Rising to the surface, she turns upside down, pokes her long hind legs out of the water, and crosses the tips.
Pokes fork into bacon, and puts it on a plate on the table, then places his chop on the gridiron, which he puts on the fire.
Some time had elapsed since I had had any others, and my mind naturally reverted to the nice pokes I had had with servants.
When a Kobeua Indian has killed one of these birds, he pokes out its eyes and allows the fluid to drip into his own, believing that in this way they will be sharp-sighted like those of the falcon.
And I'm to crease him if he pokes his noodle down the stairs?
As soon as she stopped singing, the Pokes paused in their flight, and as soon as they paused Dorothy began to gape.
A large group of Pokes had gathered at the gates, and unless they could sing their way through, they would fall asleep and be carried ignominiously back to the castle.
At the unexpected sound (for no one had ever laughed inPokes before), the women picked up their snails in a great fright, and the men clapped their fingers to their ears or to the places where their ears were under the red nightcaps.
The Pokes fell this way and that, and such was the determination of the Cowardly Lion that he never stopped till he was out of the gate and halfway up the rough road they had so recently traveled.
Pokes so loud that the Cowardly Lion roused himself with a start, and the pet snails stuck out their heads.
The Pokes were so taken aback at the horrid sounds that they ran scurrying right and left.
Singing for dear life, Sir Hokus jerked Dorothy by the arm, and the Cowardly Lion roared so loud that the Pokes covered their ears and began backing away.
The Pokes opened both eyes, but did not immediately retire.
The Pokes stumbled this way and that, and all went well until they rushed into a company of Pokeswho were playing croquet.
This time the Pokesleft sullenly, but the effect of their presence had thrown Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, and the Knight into a violent fit of the gapes.
By this time, the Pokes had surrounded them and were waving them imperiously ahead.
Why, you're a subject of Oz, and Pokes is in Oz, though I don't know just where.
The Pokes nodded to each other in a pleased fashion, and the Chief Poker started cautiously toward them with a long, thick rope.
She is Annie to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who pokes his nose in our packing room, but they are Tom, Dick, and Harry to her.
She snickers, pokes me in the ribs again, and, “What to hell do I think you are, hey?
Amen, while pouring gold-dust from their pokes into the frying-pan.
All the rest of the pictures he sweeps down with his elbow and pokes together into a heap with his foot.
Stops at last in front of the door with the clover leaf and pokes at] This door here will not leave me any peace--what is behind it?
Stops and pokes at the door with the four-leaved clover hole] And I have been looking two thousand five hundred and fifty-five times at that door without discovering where it leads.
To what use can those writings serve you, those papers and other procedures contained in the bags and pokes of the law-suitors?
I posit on the end of a table in my closet all the pokes and bags of the defendant, and then allow unto him the first hazard of the dice, according to the usual manner of your other worships.
Fourteen thousand four hundred and forty-two feet is the estimated height of this colossal giant that pokes his apex in the sky.
As the “Oakland” pokes her nose against the San Francisco dock I look at my watch; it is 9.
After we gets to goin' Orphy pokes his head in the door.
One day a messenger boy comes 'n' leans against the stall door 'n' pokes a yellow envelope at me.
She looks round, puts her parcels on the table and in the cupboards, pokes the fire, and then takes her basket in her hand again, looks at the clock and goes into the inner room.
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