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  • 'Hookey' is an innocent-looking vice that leads to great trouble.

    The Blue Birds' Winter Nest Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

  • Constable, Justice of the Peace Ward 2: Erwin "Hookey" Evans, D, and Tony Johnson.

    thenewsstar.com - Local News 2008

  • Messrs. Hookey, of Holywell Street, pay you handsomely, I make no doubt you would like to be rewarded at a still higher figure.

    Burlesques 2006

  • For instance, I am not of a suspicious turn; but it IS a fact that when Hookey is bringing out a new work, he asks the critics all round to dinner; that when Walker has got his picture ready for the Exhibition, he somehow grows exceedingly hospitable, and has his friends of the press to a quiet cutlet and a glass of Sillery.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • Messrs. Hookey, of Holywell Street, pay you handsomely, I make no doubt you would like to be rewarded at a still higher figure.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • Hookey had been making lots of wheels and rims, for one thing, and someone must have been paying him to do it.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • She recalled looking around and thinking that times had been good for sai Hookey, and of course she had been right.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Roy a corpse glaring up at the bitter sky, Quint fled, Hookey dead, the ranchers who had ridden with them gone.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Susan knew only one blacksmith in Barony capable of such fine work: Brian Hookey, to whom she had gone for Felicia's new shoes.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Hookey, Loo, etc., etc., without reference to a manual on the subject.

    A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

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