"Moke" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on this state of things, "That moke's like me," I muttered, with a sigh; "He might go faster if he'd got some wings, But Nature's made him better off than I; For though I've all his obstinacy—aye! all— His sullen spirit, and his dogged ways, I've not one particle, ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon
... pairs of donkeys belonged to an asinine Trades Union. The twenty pairs went together or not at all; they went up the steep hill with a human being on their backs or not at all; if one solitary moke out of the forty trades-unionists should be asked to climb a hill with nothing on its back, it would not move one step—no, not if the most luscious carrot feast awaited it at the top; and if it refused to budge, the thirty-nine others ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... of his vocation in the following manner. One day there appeared on the square at Passy a gray moke, with sores on its back, and drooping ears, one of those wretched mountebanks' asses that Decamps and Fouquet used to paint so well. The two baskets balanced on either side of his raw and prominent backbone contained a troupe of ...
— My Private Menagerie - from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 • Theophile Gautier |
