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Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and warmed the room indifferently.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
“Yes—tea,” answered the traveller with the keen grey eyes, turning, and poking the fire with the heel of his boot.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNE
Had the automatic snout poking through the steel grille of the rear of the cage.
She doesn't hold with Lords poking their noses into people's kitchens, anyway.
He was plugging the hole himself with a mixture of butter and cow dung which he was poking in with a stick!
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAM
Meanwhile a third was walking to and fro, 98 poking among the rocks and peering over the edge into the water.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Hugh Morgan, stop poking your foot into that rabbit-hole or you fall down it and we have to dig you out.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONS
However, she haunted the gardens, annoying the keepers by persistently poking the animals with her umbrella.
IN SEARCH OF THE UNKNOWNROBERT W. CHAMBERS
The parson seemed to be trying the strength of the iron, shaking it with his hand; Emma was poking and patting at the mattress.
JOHNNY LUDLOW, FOURTH SERIESMRS. HENRY WOOD
Farmers are up and coming I can tell you, and I wouldn't lose their business by poking fun at 'em.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSON
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