"Hooky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Fairoaks lighted them out of the passage and down the stair, and, as they descended, they could hear, her bolting and locking "the sporting door" after them, upon her young mistress and herself. If there had been any danger, grinning Martha said she would have got down "that thar hooky soord which hung up in gantleman's room,"—meaning the Damascus scimitar with the names of the Prophet engraved on the blade and the red-velvet scabbard, which Percy Sibwright, Esquire, brought back from his tour in the Levant, along with an Albanian dress, and which he ...
— The History of Pendennis, Vol. 2 - His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy • William Makepeace Thackeray
... indeed, nobody could tell. Your eyes look as strong as—as that hooky bird's that sits in the sun at the Zoological and nictitates ... isn't that the word?... Goes twicky-twick with ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... I played hooky, and the girls hid us all day in their shacks, played with us, teased us about sex, and taught us things we oughtn't to have known. Poor old Wright! They sent him to the pen for burglary after I had been gone years and was blind. I wonder ...
— Claire - The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author • Leslie Burton Blades
... school, the lack of one was the worst outrage of all, for it compelled the sending of boys, who had done no worse harm than to play hooky on a sunny spring day, to a jail with iron bars in the windows. For the boy who did this wicked thing—let me be plain about it and say that if he had not; if he had patiently preferred some of the schools I knew to a day of freedom out in the sunshine, I should have ...
— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis
... Your slouching feet, is it? Or your hooky neck, or your two knees is black with knocking one ...
— The Well of the Saints • J. M. Synge
... "Hi, there, Hooky!" called Roberts from the right-hand corner of his mouth. "How they coming? Ain't seen you since the last time. Any ...
— Rival Pitchers of Oakdale • Morgan Scott
... on the phone and say I'm going to play hooky," he consented. "By the way, you must come down to the office and say hello to her when ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley |
