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Sentences starting with rake

Rake away a place among the embers, lay it there, and cover it an inch deep with hot ashes. [5]

Sentences ending with rake

Ah, Sir, I fear you are become but a sad rake! [9]

More example sentences with the word rake in them

If nothing'll do you but a disturbance, out with it like a man ('ic)--but don't rake up old bygones and fling'em in the teeth of a passel of people that wants to be peaceable if they could git a chance. [5]
The tears flowed with every rake, and so did the fervent execrations. [5]
And what motley variety of subjects a couple of people will casually rake over in the course of a day's tramp! [5]
So I wanted to sample things, and be finding out what sort of reporter-material I might be able to rake together out of the sixth century when I should come to need it. [5]
Then he began to rake the ashes, and, suddenly bending down, seized something in them,--the broken bowl of an Indian pipe. [9]
Miss Sally used to keep the key of the kitchen door in her pocket, and she always come down at night to take away the candle and rake out the fire. [12]
But I had to have it; so I went down on my hands and knees, with one slipper on and the other in my hand, and began to paw gently around and rake the floor, but with no success. [5]
At such a time it is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to "call," and you rake in the chips. [5]
But not even this mercenary thought can ruffle my mind as I rake off the loamy bed. [4]
The first thing she did was to fling the flower into her fireplace and rake the ashes over it. [6]
To be sure, Polly smoothed it off with a rake, and asked me if it was n't nice; and I said it was. [4]
The first rake of his razor loosened the very hide from my face and lifted me out of the chair. [5]
As the smoke of Carnac's pipe came curling into the air, Denzil put on his coat, and laid the hoe and rake on his shoulder. [11]
The barber soaped my face, and then took his razor and gave me a rake that well nigh threw me into convulsions. [5]
There now, I like your Denisov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so you see I do understand. [2]
Even before the journey to the oasis of Amon, everything life could offer him, the idle rake, in his perpetual darkness, had seemed shallow and scarcely worth stretching out his hand for it. [10]
His Lordship, sir, is the most abandoned rake in London, and that unmentionable crime of his but lately in the magazines--" "Yes, yes," my grandfather interrupted; "I have seen it. [9]
I doubt if I ever did; yet oh, how pleasant it would have been, at about the age, say, of threescore and ten, to rake over these ashes for cinders with her,--she in a snowy cap, and I in a decent peruke! [6]
As long as he was on the tough sides of my face I did not suffer; but when he began to rake, and rip, and tug at my chin, the tears came. [5]
Some of us have to work, you know; all you've got to do is to loaf around this place and smoke cigars and rake in the money. [9]
Many of them have to rake and scrape a long time to gather together the ten dollars their steamer passage costs, and when one of them gets back he is a bankrupt forever after. [5]
At Newmarket I had the good--or ill-fortune to meet that incorrigible rake and profligate, my Lord of March and Ruglen. [9]
But I will get Nollichucky Jack if I have to burn Morganton and rake the General out of the cinders! [9]
His son is an incurable rake and degenerate, as you may have heard. [9]
The captain was a rake and a bully and a toadeater, of course, with a loud and profane tongue, and he had had a bottle too many in the duke's travelling-coach. [9]
It was not a pleasant story,--and yet there was much of credit in it to the young rake its subject,--of dash and courage and princely generosity beside the profligacy and incontinence. [9]
But you rake a match to light the candle, and that little bit of a noise will fetch him. [5]
Then I caught a glimpse of the quartermaster whirling the spokes of our wheel, and over went our helm to lay us athwart the forefoot of the 'Serapis', where we might rake and rush her decks. [9]

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