The 84 occurrences of poker face
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Dead pan poker face.
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Nancy Deere nodded that she understood but she listened with a poker face.
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Dick nodded, poker face set solid.
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Dick's poker face was in perfect working order by the time they reached the light.
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Remitting it to Kazakhstan - he expostulated with a poker face - would have fostered inflation.
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You've got the best poker face I ever see; it's as blind as a plastered wall.
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But as they were announced, he assumed what Lord James termed his "poker face," and entered beside his friend, with head well up and shoulders squared.
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He assumed what Lord James would have termed his "poker face" and leaned up in the corner of the pew, to gaze at the preacher, as impassive as a wooden image.
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Say, though, I didn't think even you could keep on your poker face as you have this morning.
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Some would have a regular 'poker face,' others would give themselves away.
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Dan's poker face didn't twitch a muscle.
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He had his poker face on.
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Jack Harpe was wearing his poker face at the moment.
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But the Scotchman had when he chose a perfect poker face.
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It is haunted and worried, with a tinge of defiance in it; the owner of the 'bicycle face' has his features set in lines of deadly resolution; the 'golf face' displays fanatical enthusiasm and a puzzled look resulting from a struggle with the vocabulary of the game; the 'poker face' shows immobility and superstition; the 'telegraph face,' according to a well-known New York professor, is 'vacant, stoic and unconcerned,' but the 'telephone face' stands out among all of these in a class peculiar to itself.
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Then I assumed my best poker face and calmly continued: "I don't know, and do not care to know, what you are after, Frank.
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"I will, provided I can pay it any time within the year," Johnny answered, trying to read the poker face and failing as many a man had failed.
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Moreover, he was having some difficulty with his poker face, which showed odd twitchings around his mouth.
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Whereupon his poker face hid what he thought.
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The Potato Baron had assumed the "poker face" of all Orientals--wherefore Bill Conway knew the man was on his guard and would admit nothing.
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We throw the bluff with a fine, straight poker face.
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Out of the corner of his eye he could see Jimenez squirming as though afflicted with ants, van Riebeek getting his poker face battened down and Ben Rainsford suppressing a grin.
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Be nice an' friendly to him--d'ye know what a poker face is?"
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"Poker face," laughed McNabb.
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POKER FACE AND A WHITE PIGEON XVII.
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"You're shouting, Poker Face," nodded Carson with vehemence.
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"What are you doing about it, Carson?" asked the man whose unusually vacuous expression gave him his name of Poker Face.
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Carson, coming to her upon a bit of ranch business, remarked dryly before taking his departure, that a report had got around among his men--Poker Face had mentioned it to him--that Blue Lake ranch was on its last legs; that it was even to be doubted, if the men ever saw another pay-day before the whole affair went into a receiver's hands.
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He had been interrupted at the crucial point in a game of cribbage with Poker Face and the cattleman's weak spot was cribbage.
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Carson, who seldom lost his poise with one-half of his brain still given over to the hand he meant to play with Poker Face, merely sighed and shook his head.
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"I'm real busy down at the bunk-house, Mr. Hampton," at last came his quiet answer, "where me an' Poker Face is figuring out something important.
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XVI POKER FACE AND A WHITE PIGEON Mrs. Simpson had made a discovery.
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"Tell me," demanded Judith, looking at her cattleman with intent eagerness, "what do you know about Poker Face?"
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"And keep your eyes on Poker Face.
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Just got in a few moments ago, Poker Face said."
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Only," and he wrinkled his brows at her, "where does Poker Face come in?
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Maybe it isn't Poker Face, and maybe it is."
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And, still with that puzzled frown in his eyes, he went to watch Poker Face and the new man.
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And Poker Face, the man with whom he delighted to play a game of cards--it was almost as though Carson himself had come under suspicion.
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It was Poker Face.
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"No," Poker Face answered, to a sharp question from the persistent Carson.
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Donley hesitated, his eyes running from her to the other faces about him, resting longest upon the expressionless, dead-looking eyes of Poker Face.
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Poker Face told me."
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"Who told you that his name was Poker Face?"
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"How did you know this man was called Poker Face?
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Donley's eyes went again, furtive and swift, to Poker Face.
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Poker Face gave no sign.
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Judith asked then of Poker Face, turning suddenly on him.
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"No," said Poker Face.
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But Judith was giving her attention to Poker Face now.
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Poker Face looked unconcerned.
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Poker Face, still looking on, gave no sign of interest.
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Poker Face, have you anything else to say for yourself?"
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"No," answered Poker Face.
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When all was done he filled his pipe slowly and turned troubled eyes after Poker Face.
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"You want to take a good look at ol' Poker Face," he chuckled.
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This man and that might be rounded up, Shorty and Benny and Poker Face, and if any of them talked--which perhaps none of them would--at most they would say that they had no orders from anybody but Quinnion.
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Brisbane's wise old eyes looked at her shrewdly from behind the mask of his clean shaven face, the greatest poker face, men said, that had ever gone its inscrutable way up and down the city of fogs and wet winds.
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I think that even Grim with his poker face in perfect working order would have been flustered if he had been given time to think.
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"Did you ever hear of a poker face?" asked the senator.
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The night was not too dark to show him the poker face fitting its nickname insufferably.
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CHAPTER VIII NICKY AND THE SETTING HEN Honest, the first line I got on this party with the steady gray eyes and the poker face was that he must be dead from the neck up.
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Only his poker face kept the astonishment out of his eyes.
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Or else his poker face was better than Bending had thought.
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They all had the beat look of compulsive gamblers, fogged over by their individual attempts at a poker face.
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There's something in what you say about women having a good poker face so far as tellin' what they think about a man is concerned--yes.
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That was enough for dad, for he has a microbe that he is a man of strong personality, and that when he demands that anybody do something they simply got to do it, so he walked up and down the platform a couple of times to get his draw poker face on, and I went up to one of the cow boys and told him that the old duffer used to be a ballet dancer, and he thought everybody ought to dance when they were told to, and that if the spell should come on him, and he should order them to dance, it would be a great favor to me if they would just give him a double shuffle or two, just to ease his mind.
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I glances at Pyramid; but there wa'n't any more expression to that draw poker face of his than as if it was a cement block.
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The commander's disconcerted look belied his words, but even as he spoke he began to regain his composure and assume the poker face that Rothwell had come to expect.
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Maybe to him a poker face is friendly.
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Five Stories About the Potato Face Blind Man The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion 41 How the Potato Face Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning 45 Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger 53 The Toboggan-to-the-Moon Dream of the Potato Face Blind Man 59 How Gimme the Ax Found Out About the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag 65 3.
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Five Stories About the Potato Face Blind Man _People_: The Potato Face Blind Man Any Ice Today Pick Ups Lizzie Lazarus Poker Face the Baboon Hot Dog the Tiger Whitson Whimble A Man Shoveling Money A Watermelon Moon White Gold Boys Blue Silver Girls Big White Moon Spiders Zizzies Gimme the Ax Again [Illustration] The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion There was a Potato Face Blind Man used to play an accordion on the Main Street corner nearest the postoffice in the Village of Liver-and-Onions.
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[Illustration] Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger When the moon has a green rim with red meat inside and black seeds on the red meat, then in the Rootabaga Country they call it a Watermelon Moon and look for anything to happen.
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Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger were with her.
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So the next morning when the Potato Face Blind Man sat down to play his accordion on the corner nearest the postoffice in the Village of Liver-and-Onions, next to him on the right hand side sitting on the sidewalk was Poker Face the Baboon and on the left hand side sitting next to him was Hot Dog the Tiger.
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In the eyes of Poker Face was something faraway.
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First he looked into the eyes of Poker Face the Baboon and saw something faraway.
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He stopped in front of the Potato Face Blind Man, Poker Face the Baboon, and Hot Dog the Tiger.
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So I ask you, will you take care of Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger?"
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Poker Face the Baboon went to sleep on the soft coal at the north end of the woodshed and when he was asleep his face had something faraway in it and he was so quiet he looked like a dummy with brown hair of the jungle painted on his black skin and a black nose painted on his brown face.
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Banking institutions take some pains to keep in their employ no young men who are known to play poker; but a poker face at that board would have acquired more than its share of dignity.
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Love is a waiting game, which requires nerve, concentration, and a poker face.