But I'm due in a poky little place in Massachusetts called Enderby.
It would be hard on Elsie-Honey, for already she seemed just to love that poky parsonage, and was apparently quite as attached to Uncle John as she herself was to Cousin Julia.
It was a hot, gusty day, and I found the shelter of my poky little room the most comfortable resting-place, although instead of a chair I had but a wooden case to sit on.
The day dragged on; the flies simply swarmed in my poky little room.
She knew just the sort of dull old poky house they'd take her to.
Louie herself gave him her bath before she set out of a morning; she did so in a waterproof and little else--why, the splashed condition of the wall-paper in the poky little bathroom explained.
Poky Rodgers, almost forgetting to smoke in his ecstasy.
Don't leave me in this poky little place by myself,' pleaded Vava.
We shall hope to see you sometimes; it's a poky little street, and you'll be glad to get out of it, though even Belgrave Square will seem sooty and confined after Lomore.
She is just dull and poky and never seems to have a good time.
Gebbie and Barrie's store flourished in Walnut Street as it hardly could had there not been people in Philadelphia, as Gebbie once wrote to Frederick Keppel, who collected "these smoky, poky old prints.
They all seem to live in the same poky style, and the dinner we were invited to the other day fairly did for me.
And I really think a trip of this kind would do me more good than just hanging round a poky newspaper office.
I had a little bed in a stuffy little room in a poky little hotel.
And after all, this is a poky little place, isn't it?
I never did like you, and I never will, and you is awfu' poky in that bonnet.
Because she's going to leave a decent house, to live in a poky hole in the East End of London, and keep one servant.
I wouldn't have you go prowling about this pokyold place for anything.
So when she comes, he is going to be as poky as duty itself, and wear old grimy clothes, and work day and night, and you are going to don your sunshine apparel and blossom out like a rose, and beau her around in great style.
I could be engaged to a dozen people in that time," she thought impatiently, "Oh, the poky thing.
I hate this poky little house in the centre of detestable fashion; but if I could have an atelier, or a studio, I ought to say, in Gower Street, it would be nearly as good as Paris.
Do you think I'd live in a poky corner of the world like this?
Marjorie did hate those tedious "exercises," and she was glad for her mother to see how poky it was to drum at them for an hour.
It's nothing like the Consolidation, of course, but it's such an improvement on that poky old Holborn place!
