| So saying, he retreated as slowly as he entered, leaving Mr. hookey utterly stupified and bewildered. |
| What would we have done if she had been very tall and stout, and fierce-looking, with spectacles and a hookey nose? |
| Now a member of Skull and Bones, with several jobs in business houses waiting for him when he graduates, Stack himself has no misgivings about his decision to play hookey from an agricultural college. |
| His nose was not hookey, with any especial hook, nor was it thicker at the bridge than was becoming. |
| The pair are playing wild hookey from their own ground-down lives and for the 90-odd minutes of this joyous production – directed by the play's author, David Greig – it's as if we too have gone Awol from our quotidian cares. |
| Some of those who were caught playing hookey were taken back to school, while others had their names and address taken. |
