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- But no; he went poking up into the chaparral and just missed the whole thing. [5]
- Joe sat poking up the sand with a stick and looking very gloomy. [5]
- The soldiers in their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. [2]
- I felt for the candle on the table, lighted it, and turned in surprise to discover that Mr. Wharton was poking up the fire and pitching on a log of wood. [9]
- It was now that I saw a farmer's wagon poking along down toward me, loaded with cabbages. [5]
- And Jim did spend an hour poking about in the dirt, but he did not find the cent. [4]
- They went about poking sticks into the sand, and when they found a soft place they went down on their knees and dug with their hands. [5]
- He was always poking his nose into things, and playing at being a chemist-like this one and the one before. [11]
- He was seen poking about with fish-hooks at the end of a pole, but nothing was ever heard from him about the ring. [6]
- One never tires of poking about in the dense woods that clothe all these lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and impressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. [5]
- Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee. [5]
- The little steamer Maid of the Mist was coming up, riding the waves, dashed here and there by conflicting currents, but resolutely steaming on--such is the audacity of man--and poking her venturesome nose into the boiling foam under the Horseshoe. [4]
- After about three hours' poking about over all the farm, they met again outside this building, and I could hear their gabble plainly. [11]
- The others followed him, crying out at the size of the place and poking among the ashes. [9]
- When Euergetes offered her his hand she said with downcast eyes, and poking her fan-stick into the wool of the carpet: "I will visit you early to-morrow. [10]
- When we presently got under way and went poking down the broad Ohio, I became a new being, and the subject of my own admiration. [5]
- No, I wouldn't go poking in mud-huts to find him. [11]
- Since morning Colonel Carvel had sat poking the sitting-room fire, or pacing the floor restlessly. [9]
- I couldn't see but a little ways, but I went poking along over rough ground for a quarter of a mile or more, and then I run across a big old-fashioned double log-house before I noticed it. [5]
- The room was as bare now as it had been then, and Ephraim, poking his stick through a hole in the carpet, ventured the assertion that even that had not been changed. [9]
- Yes, yes, he's always poking fun at me.... Ah, well! [2]
- He was poking along through his ups and downs, and when he come to that place he went right along. [5]
- A man, crawling along the aisle of the car, and poking under the seats, had found my traveling-bag and was "going through" it. [4]
- For I heard a soldier just above me poking and tossing hay with uncomfortable vigour. [11]
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