Raked

Examples

• I can't,' replied the girl; 'Missis Raddle raked out the kitchen fire afore she went to bed, and locked up the kittle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Charcoal in the furnace being well ignited, ore and charcoal resting on the tray are alternately raked into the furnace. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Wildeve threw three points; Venn two, and raked in the coins. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The machine worked with hitches, not nearly so smoothly nor so efficiently as it should, but it did work; it gathered the grain in and it left it in good shape to be raked off the platform. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I've raked, and scraped, and borrowed, and all but begged,--and the price of these two was needed to make up the balance, and I had to give them up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth, raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct, and blew up a flame with the bellows. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She seemed to have raked up everything. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And he will not like having things raked up against him, said Sir James. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The driver of the machine rode one of the horses, while the man who raked off the grain walked by the side of the machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Pull it forward, said Venn, and they raked it in with the pole till it was close to their feet. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But it still had to be raked up and bound, and a number of inventors were busy trying to perfect mechanical devices that would do this work too. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• That must be the odor of nostalgia, the smell of the smoke from the piles of raked leaves burning in the streets in the fall in Missoula. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• With their uncanny marksmanship they raked the on-coming fleet with volley after volley. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Her deck lights raked me fore and aft, they did. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• George took the glass again and raked the vessel. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And forthwith he took the conductor under hand, and I felt, through all the storm of French which followed, that he raked him fore and aft. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• With the new machine a man can cut one and one-half acres in ten hours, to be raked, bound, and stacked by two others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• So he raked together the yet warm cinders in the rusty grate, and made a fire, and trimmed the candle on the little counter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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