Peace, you vile rake-hell, is such a jest fit for this company?

At about two o'clock she crawled faintly upstairs again, and had just fallen asleep with her head on the window-sill, when a wandering dog had to come directly under the window, and sit there and bark for half an hour at a rake-handle.

Being assailed on all sides by a rabble rout, Fordelis is carried off by "hell-rake hounds."

The old woman, who had not been able to move her back for weeks, sat bolt upright in bed, and stretched out her great bony fingers, with the long nails as hard and black as rake-prongs from groveling in the earth.

In 1857 Magnus and I bought a Seymour & Morgan hand-rake reaper.

And so did Frank Headley get what he wanted; by that plain earnest simplicity, which has more power (let worldlings pride themselves as they will on their knowledge of women) than all the cunning wiles of the most experienced rake; and only by aping which, after all, can the rake conquer.

To the Royalists, these troopers are "Prince Robert and the hope of the nation";to the Puritans, they are only "Prince Robber and his company of rake-shames.

I remember they furnished me with a little wooden fork to spread the heavy swath of grass my father cut with easy swings of the scythe, and when it was dry and being loaded on the great ox-cart I followed closely with a rake gathering every scattering spear.