156 collocations for raked

The Boy would get up first in the morning, rake out the dead ashes, put on a couple of back-logs, bank them with ashes, and then build the fire in front.

The Queen Mary turned all her forward guns on the Westphalen and raked her fore and aft.

From the fire he raked out a live coal and put it on a flat chip.

fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting, broadside; raking fire, cross fire; volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer [Fr.]. cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado^, carte and tierce

Boulder quietly raked in the money.

He then took a box of matches and a plug of the Boy's tobacco out of his pocket, and held the lot towards the Shamán, seeming to say that to save his life he couldn't rake up another earthly thing to tempt his Shamánship.

Its ugly muzzle could thus rake the deck fore and aft, but the presence of such a piece would create no suspicion in those days when every ship was armed for defense, and consequently no effort was made for its concealment.

She saw the slight figure stooping to rake together the embers in the broad chimney's throat that the coffee-pot might be set on.

James could rake the hay.

A monk was raking leaves from a path that curved around the pond like a trotter's track.

" He showed his cards and raked in the pot.

I do not think it is a pleasing or magnanimous feature in any man's character, that he is ever eager to rake up these early follies.

Mike, absolutely picturesque in a broad new straw hat, was out in the sunshine raking some grass he had cut, and Seraphina, who remained in the household as general assistant, could be seen through the open window of the kitchen.

Out partridge-shooting one is in mortal terror of the man on one's right, who invariably carries his gun at such a level that if it went off it would "rake" the whole line.

"MondayTo-day the children took up their mustard and cress, dug and raked the ground ready for transplanting the lettuces.

"There is no use in raking up the past," he muttered.

It was pretty work to see four or five cradlers in a field and others following them raking the wheat in bunches and others following binding them in bundles.

George, at a signal from the master, raked in the winnings.

In that get-up I weed a little, rake up my paths, examine my fruit trees, and, at intervals, lean on my rake in a Maud Muller posture and gaze at the view.

"That is raking out the skeletons.

Flip Williams, spurs raking the flanks of Dorsey's stallion, looked around.

he yelled, and raked the big spurs backward when Solano's forefeet struck the ground after going high in air.

You kin rake down the pile now.

Well, go thy way: oft have I raked hell To get a wife, yet never found her like.

Showers raked the far-off opposite hills.

156 collocations for  raked