"Poke at" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but what you are libel to get is a wallop in the jaw." So he says "You crabbed at me a wile ago for not takeing a joke but it looks like you was the one that couldn't take them now." So I said "What I would like to take is a poke at your nose." So that shut him up and they didn't none of them get their laugh because I had them scared and if they had of laughed I would of made ...
— The Real Dope • Ring Lardner
... niggers," said Captain Miles at this point, turning the conversation, as he thought the mate was having a sly poke at him, "I heard one day a little time back a rather good yarn about two darkeys, and, as it was told by a clergyman at a missionary meeting, I don't suppose there can be any great harm ...
— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson
... marched back to the consul's office, surrounded by an immense number of natives, some of whom ran ahead and looked back at them, and crowded so close that the two Bradleys had to poke at those nearest with their guns. The crowd remained outside the office even after the procession of four had disappeared, and cheered. This suggested to Gordon that this would be a good time to make a speech, ...
— The Exiles and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... panted, swinging the nobbly stick in his hand, "can't come on more nor two at vunce. Be ready vith your stick—at their eyes—poke at 'em—no 'itting—" the rest was drowned in the echoing rush of heavy feet and the boom of hoarse voices. But now, seeing their quarry stand on the defensive, the pursuers checked their advance, their cries sank to growling ...
— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al
... a lobster palace," grinned Jimmie. "We might find a pie-counter over there, too," he added, with a poke at Frank. ...
— Boy Scouts in Mexico; or On Guard with Uncle Sam • G. Harvey Ralphson |
