"Cooky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... course, there was no time for fun, And jokes were too untimely to be good. The first cabdriver must have been endued With strength, for this occasion, from above He was so mighty, and his attitude Betokened he was instantly in love With cooky, smiling on her, ...
— The Minstrel - A Collection of Poems • Lennox Amott
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... at length, when, at the end of half an hour—a long half-hour it had seemed to her—a waiter brought her a little note in pencil from Pen, who said, "I met Cooky below ready to fight me; and I asked his pardon. I'm glad I did it. I wanted to speak to you to-night, but will keep what I had to say till you come home. God bless you. Dance away all night with Pynsent, and be very happy.—PEN." Laura was very thankful for this letter, and to ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
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... she went away two days ago. She has a grandmother, or aunt, or old party of some kind, down in Pennsylvania, who is sick and has sent for her. Guess the old girl has scads of coin tucked away somewhere, and Draper thinks she'd better be around when the aged relative passes in her checks. Bet a cooky she won't die at that, but if she's going to, I wish she'd hurry up about it. I need Draper badly, and she won't be back until the old girl ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
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... is hungry most of the time from being too poor to get enough food. For two days I have had to keep my mind off Roxanne Byrd to make myself swallow one single morsel of anything to eat. I suspected it at the school lunch but I was certain of it from the way Lovelace Peyton consumed the first cooky I offered him over the fence. Thank goodness, he has no family pride located in his stomach, and when my feelings overcome me he is the outlet. I can feed him anything at all hours and he is always ready for more. It may be wrong to keep it from his sister ...
— Phyllis • Maria Thompson Daviess
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... asked Hippy, with an interested grin. "A cooky jar or merely a glass candy jar? Be sure you ...
— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower
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... specimens, and an album of postage-stamps that was always in a state of metamorphosis. He had some loose stamps too, and sometimes, late in the afternoon or on Saturdays, we "traded." Johnny's mother was likely to caution us about her freshly scrubbed floors, and sometimes gave me a cooky on my leaving. I never heard of Raymond's having ...
— On the Stairs • Henry B. Fuller
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... light pierced down in golden arrows only, the silence was almost oppressive. Caroline stepped suddenly out of the tiny path, pushed aside a clump of fern, buried her arm up to the elbow in a hollow stump and produced a large crumbling molasses cooky. ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
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... board for us at the house of one Solomon Rollin—universally known as 'Cooky' Rollin; that was one of the first things I learned at the Academy. It seemed that many years ago he had taken his girl to a dance and offered her, in lieu of supper, cookies that he had thoughtfully brought with him. Thus cheaply he had come ...
— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller
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... so much as glance at Kent. Her eyes were fastened on Lydia, with the look of a hungry, expectant dog. Lydia ran her fingers through her damp curls, and sighed. Then she gave little Patience her share of the bread and butter and a cooky. She laid the precious deviled egg in its twist of paper on top of the remainder of the bread and cookies and handed ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
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