1 Don't you be a meddlesome wench an poke your nose where it's no cause to go.
2 Please to don't poke fun at a poor girl like me, mum.
3 And if the Yankees can take the railroad there, they can pull up the strings and have us, just like a possum in a poke.
4 The mottled, pin-headed guinea-hens, always resentful of captivity, ran screeching out into the tunnel and tried to poke their ugly, painted faces through the snow walls.
5 This welcome ended in a soft peal of mirthless laughter as Heron salaamed and then began to poke the ground with his cane.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 6 I let him run on, this papier-mache Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.
7 I should think she'd hate to poke herself where she isn't wanted, said Jo crossly, for she disliked the trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted to enjoy herself.
8 And here I may remark that when Mr. Wopsle referred to me, he considered it a necessary part of such reference to rumple my hair and poke it into my eyes.
9 He'll stand like a pig in a poke.
10 I don't want to know your private affairs, for I never poke my nose into such things.
11 They were like the Sunday-afternoon mob starting at monkeys in the Zoo, poking fingers and making faces and giggling at the resentment of the more dignified race.
12 The righteous widow glared, banged into the house, came out poking at her bonnet, marched away.
13 Rather pathetic: rich man poking around and trying to be useful.
14 Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and warmed the room indifferently.
15 High in a treetop he stopped, and, poking his head cautiously from behind a branch, looked down with an air of trepidation.