We'd left it, with a few momentoes just as valuable, when we made that quick move away from that punky old palace after our little monkey shine with the brigands.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
He broke pieces of the punky stuff with his fingers.
"Operation Terror"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
We saw several trees shattered, and one of them, a punky old oak, was set on fire, while we wondered why all the trees and everybody and everything did not share the same fate, for oftentimes the whole sky blazed.
"The Story of My Boyhood and Youth"
John Muir