Don't build your fire against a big old punky log; it may smoulder a day or two after you have left and then burst out into flame when the breeze fans it.
Usually a dead stump of pine, spruce, or balsam, all punky on the outside, has a core very rich in resin that makes excellent kindling.
Of the once magnificent furnishings, only dust-piles, splinters and punky rubbish remained.
There before her lay a somewhat larger pile of dust mixed with soft andpunky splinters of rotten wood.
For a while he silently delved through the triturated bits of punky wood and rust-red metal that now represented the remains of his chemical cabinet.
Illustration] Then the pup with a bark started in for a lark But Punky thought he meant to fight, And he ran up a tree just as fast as could be And he stayed there until it was night.
Illustration] Punky Dunk has made up with the gay spotted pup And with Baby they play every day.
And Punky then stopped so quick that he dropped And over and over he rolled.
Illustration] Now Punky felt hurt as he gazed very pert At the gay spotted pup in the box, For the pup was all white, save for spots black as night On his back and his tail, ears and sox.
We saw several trees shattered, and one of them, a punky old oak, was set on fire, while we wondered why all the trees and everybody and everything did not share the same fate, for oftentimes the whole sky blazed.
It was one of these husky baritones, like what does the coonsongs for the punky records they put into the music boxes at the penny arcades.
Well, I thunk some more thinks just as punky as that, and then we settles it that I'm to hike over and take a squint, anyway.
You could see by the punky mill'nery and the last season's drygoods that she'd just drifted in from Mortgagehurst, New Jersey.
Then the boy scout began to work the bent bow which passed through a hole in the upper part of the drill, steadily to and fro, slowly turning that drill, grinding its lower point into the punky wood of the fireboard.
A bed of downy feathers at the heart of a punky old stump beneath the snow would seem as much of a snuggery as ever a mouse could build; but it is not.
The snow was deep, the pine was punky and would easily fall; and now was the chance to get my mice.
As for Punky Williams, he lighted another cigar and flinging himself upon the bed, blew copious clouds of light blue smoke to the cracked and grimy ceiling at which, the while, he stared fixedly, thoughtfully.
With an air of passive interest, Punky Williams took out a stop watch, then fixed his eyes upon the figure up the course.
Punky Williams wriggled his way among them; his little ears receptive, his mouth close shut.
Apparently Punky did, for he muttered, "Aw right," and flecked the ash from his cigar.
Illustration] And Punky Dunk howled and Punky Dunk yowled And Punky Dunk fell to the floor, And he bristled and spat like a terrified cat As he fled through the dining room door.
Illustration] Punky Dunk would peep, though he seemed asleep, At the bird in its cage of brass, And his tail he swayed when the gold fish played In their clear little bowl of glass.
Illustration] Now Punky Dunk lies on the floor and he sighs: "It is best for a cat to be good, For I cannot forget how I got my coat wet When I didn't do just as I should.
Nunky-Punky says if the sun was to shine in here, the carpet would curl up and get singed.
I don't know how often I have told Cally-Lou not to go gadding about the house at night, catching cold and making Nunky-Punky pay a dollar apiece for doctor's bills.
Punky yellow logs lie ripped open and scratched where bruin has been enjoying a dainty morsel of ants' eggs; but the bear did not make that track.
The Indians had set fire to the inside of a punky trunk and the shooting flames were a rallying call.
That would be a chariot race to what we took before we hove in sight of that punky castle.
It was a punky lid, all right, but it had saved a lot of wear on his koko when he made that slide for home plate and struck the wall.
We used a box of matches locating thatpunky grinder.
We'd left it, with a few momentoes just as valuable, when we made that quick move away from that punkyold palace after our little monkey shine with the brigands.
Illustration] Punky ran up the stairs and he knocked over chairs And he sprang to the table and dropped, He "Meowed!
Illustration] Punky sat by the trap, and seemed taking a nap, But you know that bold Punky was wise.
Illustration] Soon the mouse crept right out and went running about; Punky smiled to himself and he said: "I will just let him play in his own foolish way Till I think that I need to be fed.
The last I saw of Cornie she was wearin' a skirt that sagged in the back, a punky lid that might have come off the top of an ash can, and shoes that had run over at the heel.
I looked for 'em to forget it all by mornin' and start in again on their punky card games; but they was all up bright and early, plannin' out new stunts.
Inside of ten minutes he knows just how punky he is himself, and he's ready to follow any directions I lay down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "punky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
