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  • "I hardly think —" Lord Pelham was using his pokering-up voice and Lavinia was having none of it.

    Irresistible Balogh, Mary 1998

  • His admonitions against eating at Mom's, pokering with Doc and sleeping with a woman with more troubles than you popped up in a big movie last season without credit, as if the character had just made it up.

    Nelson Algren: An Exchange Drew, Bettina 1990

  • I was forced to admit to him that David had perceived only the joyous in the pokering of the policeman's legs, and had called out heartily "Do it again!" every time Joey knocked the pantaloon down with one kick and helped him up with another.

    The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens 1898

  • Punch-and-Judy is largely attended at the other end; Punch is kitchen-pokering his wife, too, like the gentleman we have just left; but we pass in with the crowds to the Museum itself.

    Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869

  • And then a truce to all that Radical rageing and hot-pokering of the country! and lie in peace, old Shrapnel! and get on your legs when you can, and offend no more; especially be mindful not to let fly one word against a woman!

    Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • And then a truce to all that Radical rageing and hot - pokering of the country! and lie in peace, old Shrapnel! and get on your legs when you can, and offend no more; especially be mindful not to let fly one word against a woman!

    Beauchamp's Career — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • And then a truce to all that Radical rageing and hot-pokering of the country! and lie in peace, old Shrapnel! and get on your legs when you can, and offend no more; especially be mindful not to let fly one word against a woman!

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • I haven't seen anything with Urkel for a long times arrived at location of super-secret super-awesome superbowl party venue. need nap! headache returned while pierce brosnan was "singing" in mamma mia while we were pokering

    jozjozjoz.com 2009

  • Not to be so this time, I was at the show or in meetings / dinners with manufacturers for 12-14 hours every day, leaving very little time for the pokering.

    PokerStage 2008

  • I think the four of you pokering up all together would be quite a formidable sight. "

    Irresistible Balogh, Mary 1998

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