"Poky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... another Woking, and it is as pretty and quiet as the railway Woking is noisy and tiresome. It stands with its old church on the banks of the Wey two miles away, a huddle of tiled roofs and old shops and poky little corners, as out-of-the-way and sleepy and ill-served by rail as anyone could wish. I found it first on a day in October, and walked out from the grinding machinery of the station by a field-path running ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker
... ambassador, but she thought him strangely slow in achieving this dignity. No pleasure or pride in her husband's ability to serve his country, even in a modest position, ever crossed her mind. She had no desire to spend her valuable time in various poky Continental towns, and she had many excuses for not doing so; the proper education of her children being the chief among them. Luckily for her, good and desirable schools were generally at an easy distance from the jewellers' shops and the ...
— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... in that poky bank-house, and nobody ever goes near him. I wonder whether he has any ...
— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope
... expect we all do in Old Ireland. Bless her! she's a dear old country, and I'm as sorry as anybody to say good-by to her. But, all the same, I am glad to see England (poky, stiff sort of place it seems). Say now, Alice, do you like my dress? It was made in Dublin; it's the height of ...
— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade
... we like you," chorused the children. "You've never grown up and got dull and stiff and poky like most grown folks." ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
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