97 collocations for ekes

But, harder even than this, our factory-women and girls have had to turn out; and, plodding a weary way from door to door, beg a bit of bread or a stray copper, that they may eke out the scanty supply at home.

Away to the south there was a forest of the same stunted pines, where a few charcoal-burners and resin-tappers eked out a forlorn and obscure existence.

My ambition is not at present higher than to write nonsense for the playhouses, to eke out a something contracted income.

Rather, this man who was so swelled with titles, eked a living by selling coins and stamps, and he was on his way to Europe to replenish his wares.

What eager snatches at mere words, and bald technics, irrespective of connection, principles of construction, Bible usages, or limitations of meaning by other passagesand all to eke out such a sense as accords with existing usages and sanctifies them, thus making God pander for their lusts.

Occasionally SPIFFKINS eked out his salary by writing letters to the provincial press.

Some of these animals live in the wilds, and, like jackals, steal into the towns at night to eke out a scanty subsistence.

Cooke, the translator of Hesiod, tells us, "Eusden, a laurelled bard, by fortune raised, By very few was read, by fewer praised," Pope, as cavalierly, in the "Dunciad": "She saw old Prynne in restless Daniel shine, And Eusden eke out Blackmore's endless line.

Their wealth raised them above the necessity of those mean cares and degrading shifts to eke out a scanty livelihood which mark the career of other literary men who were their contemporaries.

This is one of the instances in which the idealism of art ekes out the imperfections of reality.

He persevered, however, and eking out his own resources by means of private contributions, both in money and stock, he managed to get a party together.

"I hate the heaven, because it doth withhould 400 Me from my love, and eke my love from me; I hate the earth, because it is the mould Of fleshly slime and fraile mortalitie; I hate the fire, because to nought it flyes; I hate the ayre, because sighes of it be; 405 I hate the sea, because it teares supplyes.

'You see I'm tolerably well dressed still, but I've precious little money, and I want to eke out the little I've got for about three months.

Dear again back recall To this light, A stranger to himself and all; Both the wonder and the story Shall be yours, and eke the glory; I am your servant and your thrall.

The agents of the republic, more oeconomical, yet directed by the same motives, eke out corruption by precepts of sedition, and arm the leaders of revolt with the rights of man; but, forgetting the maxim that charity should begin at home, in their zeal for the freedom of other countries, they leave no portion of it for their own!

And so, one way and another, Ambrose managed to eke from his job a great deal more than he drew on pay day.

[Fr.], eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate.

There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the calm pleasures, always hovered nigh; But whate'er smacked of 'noyance or unrest Was far, far off expelled from this delicious nest.

When Helena heard this unkind command, she replied, "Sir, I can nothing say to this, but that I am your most obedient servant, and shall ever with true observance seek to eke out that desert, wherein my homely stars have failed to equal my great fortunes."

Official news of importance trickles in in driblets: for the rest, newspaper men, miles from the front, are driven to eke out their dispatches with negligible trivialities.

"But still his heart did feel the smart, And eke the dire distress, And rather grew his pain more sharp As grew his body less.

Not generous in money only,though the readiness of his beneficence in that direction had few equals,he always hastened past that minor bestowal to ask if there were not some other added gift possible, some personal service or correspondence, some life-blood, in short, to be lavished in some other form, to eke out the already liberal donation of dollars.

"'The thrush hath taken him a she, The robin, too, and eke the dove; My Robin hath deserted me, And left me for another love.

Even if, for a paltry trifle of seven pounds fifteen and six, I am condemned by your master (whom you will excuse my terming a miscreant) to eke out the dregs of my worthless existence in this infernal yardno, my loved Arabella, you will pardon me, but as a practical man I insist on facing the worsteven so I have found a congenial spirit, a co-mate and brother in exile, a Friend in my retreat Whom I can whisper: 'Solitude is sweet.'

" "Then shall he not go without a ducking and eke a drubbing himself!" cried Will Stutely.

97 collocations for  ekes