They Poked into cupboards, turned over mattresses, peeped into bureau drawers and boxes and a score of other articles too small to have hidden anything human.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
The old brown hand suddenly stopped clenching and unclenching, and out from the cushions the old brown head with its few hairs and its parchment face Poked like a withered jack-in-the-box.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Verena opened the nursery door and Poked in her bright head and face.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade