I never dreamed then that for twenty-five years I would be poking around in those deceiving hills.
Soon a city stood where the burro ate and soon adventurers were poking around in the canyons of Death Valley, 66 miles south.
Upon coming out from Back River, we spent some time poking about in the water for the old-time isthmus.
One fat brown baby sat in a doorway poking a pudgy thumb into a saucer of food and keeping very watchful eyes on the strangers.
For, to our minds, one of the chief charms of houseboating lay in poking about in such out-of-the-way places.
For that is my pretence, when she comes poking in with her face sharpened to an edge, as I may say, by a curiosity that gives her more pain than pleasure.
The ruins were still smoking, and several men and boys were standing around the place--some looking idly on, and somepoking up the smouldering fires.
So he went peeping and poking about, making Little Jacket not a little troubled, for he expected every moment that he would pick up the boot in which he was concealed, and shake him out of his hiding-place.
He then went about the room, grumbling and swearing, and poking into all the corners and holes in search of the rat; for he saw that the hole under the door had been enlarged, and he was sure that the rats had done it.
I kept probing at the murk, sort of like poking a finger at a hanging blanket.
I toyed around with the idea of barging in on the main office of the company but I figured that might be too much like poking my head into a hornet's nest.
He was poking a long tool into the guts of an automatic pump, built to lift water from a deep well into a water tower about forty feet tall.
I would probably have driven all the way back to my apartment with my mind in that whirligig, driving by habit and training, but I was shaken out of it because I could not start my car by poking that bit of metal in the lock.
Jane tidied the room as usual this morning, and yet here you are, poking into every corner, and arranging and rearranging everything.
At daylight next morning the four ships of the fleet weighed anchor, circled and steamed out of the harbor, soon after poking their noses into the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
Poking her nose out into the English Channel, the battleship headed southward for a long cruise.
There you go, poking fun at my appetite as usual," Bob complained.
The two men plodded up the steep winding stair, poking into every corner on their way up, till they emerged on the little railed platform under the great crystal moons of the lantern.
If he had seen the purser exploring the room and poking under his berth he might have felt uneasy, for that was what the purser was doing at this moment.
Ho, ho," jeered Chunky, poking his streaked face from his tent opening for an instant.
Stacy perched himself on one of the cypress knees, and, letting the bushy top down, began poking about in the black pool.
So he and Squeaker hid in the ice cabin back of the blown-down house, and when the bad wolf came poking along among the broken boards, to get the little pig, he couldn't find him.
Mary, lifting her long stick, and poking at Annie's left hand and the gold ring worn upon it.
Another youngster was playfully poking out the eyes of a fluttering pigeon.
Write that to your uncle," said Pendoggat, poking his victim in the ribs with his big Bible.
See, he's poking into it as if there were gold or diamonds concealed in it.
It was a whale all right," went on Andy, playfully poking his brother in the ribs, "and it stove in my boat.
There were practically no civilians in any of them--a few poor peasants poking dismally about in the ruins, trying to find some odds and ends that they could save from the general wreck.
They killed the observer and wounded the pilot himself, to say nothing of poking a hole in the oil tank.
The Subject upon which I write Is everything that I could choose; I seldom knew my Wits more bright, More cosmopolitan my Views; Nor ever did my Head contain So surplus a supply of Brain!
She merely saw in Henry a great brute of a man poking at a defenceless bird with a stick.
And you can tell your friend Devereux that, if he doesn't stop poking his nose into my private business, I'll pull it off.
Well, that's neither here nor there," retorted the Poker, poking his head out through the cloud.
Bellows, poking Tom in the ribs, and grinning broadly.
Lady Derl, poking the two-legged kid with her finger.
