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Updated: June 15, 2025
Another time I was doing California on horseback, and in an abandoned shack in the Sierras I found Emerson's 'Poems' an old copy that somebody had thumbed a good deal. I poked it out of some rubbish and came near making a fire of it. Left it, though, for the next fellow. I've noticed that if one thing like that happens to you there's bound to be another. Is that superstition, Thatcher?
"He's a fool for his pains; that's all," said Stemm, as he poked the letter into the box. During the whole of the next day the matter troubled Sir Thomas. What if Ralph should go at once to the breeches-maker's daughter, the thought of whom made Sir Thomas very sick, and commit himself before an answer should be received from Mr. Newton?
One pleasant summer morning, in 18 , a gay party of English ladies and gentlemen visited the old Castle of Blarney. They strolled along the green shore of the lake, wandered about the wild neglected gardens and "groves," ran up and down the Witches' Staircase, poked their heads into the princesses cave, and then ascended the great tower of the castle.
I remember one odd thing, and that was when he wanted very badly to smoke. We put a pipe in his hands he almost poked his eye out with it and lit it. But he couldn't taste anything. I've since found it's the same with me I don't know if it's the usual case that I cannot enjoy tobacco at all unless I can see the smoke.
He busied himself now with the mechanism of a huge revolver one that the stage-driver, Frank Elpaso, had wrecked on the head of a troublesome negro coming in from the mines. De Spain in turn took off his hat, poked the crown discontentedly, and, rising with a loss of amiability in his features and manner, walked out of the room. The late sun was streaming down the full length of Main Street.
Any blockhead can be a merchant now. Formerly, they poked sapey-headed goneys into Parliament, to play dummey; or into the army and navy, the church, and the colonial office.
"The poor children won't begin to get the fun out of it that we've had." "Oh, those dear poor children!" exclaimed Polly, stretching out her toes, which now began to ache dreadfully; "just think how perfectly lovely it's going to be for them all summer, Alexia." Joel caught the last words. He poked up his head from one of the hammocks. "Well, I guess Mr.
Well, I was punished; covetousness had its reward; for, presently, the violet light got very pale, and then went out; and when I reached home, still holding in both hands all I had gathered up, and when I took it to the candle, it had burned into the red shell of a lobsky's head, and its two black eyes poked up at me with a long stare and I may say, a strong smell, too enough to knock a poor body known."
But she shook her head, intent on the doings on the rock, and full, for the moment, of the hope she could draw from Gard's hint about a hiding-place of which she knew nothing. For if she and Bernel had never discovered it, how should these others? And obviously they were searching, for they prowled about the rock like ants, and poked here and there, and wandered on and came back.
After the cocks had poked the eggs about a little with their beaks the hens went nearer and tried to peck off the black marks. All the time there was a great hubbub of anxious conversation. The next morning more than half the eggs had been destroyed, and to save those that were left I had to remove them."
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