She thought of herself coming down in the world, living in a pokey little house away from the High Street, unable to buy new dresses, unnoticed by the chief people of Blackstable-she who had always held up her head with the best of them!
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
Of course all the teachers were there, but the pokey ones went home early and the jolly ones, like Miss Flint and Miss Atkins, stayed until the last dance.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
He had proposed getting up early initially to compensate for his slow, pokey movements but not as early as this and he resented having lost sleep for such knicknacks.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills