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"We haven't really come so far, but it's taken us a long time, hasn't it? That old train from Moose Junction is about the pokiest thing in the way of a train I ever saw." So they made their way back to the big building that, as they had already learned, was called the "Living Camp."
"Of all the mean things that ever was the pokiest long time in unwrapping its wings, this butterfly's the meanest." There was once an excessively mighty King, Barradin the Great, who died, leaving no sons or daughters, or any relation on the face of the earth, to inherit his crown. So his throne, at the time of which I write, was vacant. This mighty King had been of a very peculiar disposition.
"You'll want another gentleman, Berry." "Oh, mamma, what did you do that for? She's the pokiest little thing. We didn't want her at all." "Well, Mrs. Gray introduced her, and said she was almost her niece, and I thought it seemed to be expected. Mrs. Gray is always polite to our visitors, you know, and I don't like to seem to slight any of hers. What's the matter with the girl?"
The ladies were in their pokiest old head-gear and most dingy gowns, when they perceived the carriage approaching; and considering, of course, that the visit of the Park people was intended for them, dashed into the rectory to change their clothes, leaving Rowkins, the costermonger, in the very midst of the negotiation about the three mackerel.
I should judge, however, from your excited manner and your unusual enthusiasm, that you found young ladies." "Joseph, you are a genius. I did. In the funniest, pokiest, queerest little house that you can possibly imagine; I discovered three charming, well-bred girls. The two youngest made friends with me in their shabby little garden.
There was a short silence, broken by Billy, who remarked, apropos of nothing: "I sho' is glad I don't hafter be a 'oman when I puts on long pants, mens is heap mo' account." "I wouldn't be a woman for nothing at all," Jimmy fully agreed with him; "they have the pokiest time they is." "I'm glad I am going to be a young lady when I grow up," Lina declared, "I wouldn't be a gentleman for anything.
She treated poor Ned shamefully tonight. You saw yourself how she acted with Spencer, and she's going to Loon Lake with him tomorrow, she says. I'm sure I don't know what she can see in him. He's the dullest, pokiest fellow alive so different from her in every way." "Perhaps that is why she likes him," suggested the Major. "The attraction of opposites and all that, you know." But Mrs.
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