"Poky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is a poky car, It stops 'most every minute. At every corner someone gets out And someone else gets in it. It stops for a lady, an auto, a hoss, For any old thing that wants to cross, This poky old, stupid old, silly old, timid old, ...
— Here and Now Story Book - Two- to seven-year-olds • Lucy Sprague Mitchell
... much where the Indian Uncle lived, because we had not been told. And we thought when the cab began to go up the hill towards the Heath that perhaps the Uncle lived in one of the poky little houses up at the top of Greenwich. But the cab went right over the Heath and in at some big gates, and through a shrubbery all white with frost like a fairy forest, because it was Christmas time. And at last we ...
— The Story of the Treasure Seekers • E. Nesbit
... fairly gone, Longclawse, the eldest, said, 'Seems to me, brothers, we have stood this long enough. All the other cubs in the wood can run about as they please, and why should we be kept in this poky old cave? Suppose we try to get away the big log before the door?' for this was what Grumpy-growly put up to keep them ...
— Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First - Being the First Book • Sarah L Barrow
... fancy Mrs. Frank, and spoke despitefully of her among themselves, were not slow to come in "for just a minute," as they said, as the evenings wore on, and to stay and chat with various visitors—it was so lonesome and poky over home with the children asleep and nothing to do. Women there were who never darkened Mrs. Garrison's door after the first formal calls; but they were of those who deeply felt the separation from ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King
... of course," was Irene's response; "but honest, now, Gerty, don't you think it a little poky? I do not want to go anywhere for a whole summer: I like the fun of all. Agatha is to spend a month at Long Branch, and I am going down just for a little dazzle and to give my ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... man can get a good meal, for that matter, at the Red House, a little way up yonder over the hill. But it wouldn't suit a man like you—a slow, poky ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
... Marcia, "that's exactly it, only I never could have found quite the right words. Do you think J.W. will find it too poky and preachy?" ...
— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt
... and I'm simply perishing to go! But I'm due in a poky little place in Massachusetts called Enderby. Isn't that the limit? The name alone would queer the place, don't you think so? It's fairly near Boston, but they say Boston's slow compared with New York or ...
— Elsie Marley, Honey • Joslyn Gray
... would stir Alf up a little bit,' she said. 'He's entirely too poky. Carrie, that man is the slowest stick that ever lived. I wish some pretty, dashin' gal like Dixie Hart would flirt with him good and hard. If you wasn't so old I'd git you to do it. My first husband was different; ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben
... will, too," declared Jess, with a nod of her dark head, "that poky old Harding and his crowd won't have a word to say ...
— The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise • Margaret Burnham
... with a sigh, closing the book and folding her hands, "only—I didn't suppose you ever could become a prosy, poky old church-member." ...
— All He Knew - A Story • John Habberton
... rooms in Rome. We are going to stay all winter, if we don't die of the fever; and I guess we'll stay then. It's a great deal nicer than I thought; I thought it would be fearfully quiet; I was sure it would be awfully poky. I was sure we should be going round all the time with one of those dreadful old men that explain about the pictures and things. But we only had about a week of that, and now I'm enjoying myself. I know ever so many people, and they are all ...
— Daisy Miller • Henry James
... amicably. The cares of a large party always prevailed over personal feelings, and Lily saw no change in her hostess's manner. Nevertheless, she was soon aware that the experiment of coming to Bellomont was destined not to be successful. The party was made up of what Mrs. Trenor called "poky people"—her generic name for persons who did not play bridge—and, it being her habit to group all such obstructionists in one class, she usually invited them together, regardless of their other characteristics. ...
— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton
... he grumbled. "We're too jolly careful of ourselves. We don't get much fun. Here's your poky little restaurant. Let's see what it looks ...
— The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... ordered his younger son to marry a poky kind of a girl, that no one liked, to add another big estate on the other side, and that was different. That was all the world different, because the elder son had been in love all his life with the girl he married, and, oh, Freckles, it's no wonder, for I saw her! She's a beauty and ...
— Freckles • Gene Stratton-Porter
... 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 ...
— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin |
