An asphalt walk led in festoons from high parky nooks that sheltered couples, down to the water-slapped edge of docks, where the tidey surf had a thick, inarticulate lisp, as if what it had to say might only be comprehended from the under side.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
The grocer slapped his arms across his unwieldy chest, and said it was "a bit parky" in his vulgar way, and longed for his snug jerry-built villa; while his friend agreed that Dartmoor was a place of horror and great darkness, and wished himself back in his gas-scented factory superintending the transformation of carrots into marmalade.
"Furze the Cruel"
John Trevena
"It ain't 'arf parky," growled Harry Hawke.
"With Haig on the Somme"
D. H. Parry