34 Verbs to Use for the Word raked

The boy carried a rake, and if he stopped and raked in front of a house, it meant that there many should die, but not all; for the rake has coarse teeth and does not take everything with it.

It is hardly the thing for Judge Hawthorne of Hollywood to envy John Randolph his humdrum life of mending rakes and shoes," and he urged his horse into a mad gallop.

He dropped his rake; he threw his arms around his father's neck, and cried for thankfulness and joy.

We see many a young Fellow who is scarce of Age, that could lay his Claim to the Jus trium Liberorum, or the Privileges which were granted by the Roman Laws to all such as were Fathers of three Children: Nay, I have heard a Rake [who ] was not quite five and twenty, declare himself the Father of a seventh Son, and very prudently determine to breed him up a Physician.

And for what you say about dayswhat are days, or even weeks, when it is a question of reforming a rake, Sir George?

And Durand threw down his rake or his spade.

The latter were worn out officers and dissipated rakes, whom the English government sent off here in order to get rid of them."

Colin at the bottom, slender and tall above the big revolving wheel, drove the rake.

When Jone saw the real farm-work going on, with a chance for everybody to turn in to help, his farmer blood boiled within him, as if he was a war-horse and sniffed the smoke of battle, and he got himself a rake and went to work like a good-fellow.

"Now," said she, "you stay here, and I'll jest git the rake and rake the kittens out for Miss Amy, here.

All the girls were given tiny toy rakes, hoes, spades, or other farm implements which they used as favors in choosing partners.

By this time it was blowing fresh, and the wind, having a clear rake, drove up the honeycomb- looking sheet before it, as the scraper accumulates snow.

A Phylactery Wise men I hold those rakes of old Who, as we read in antique story, When lyres were struck and wine was poured, Set the white Death's Head on the board Memento mori.

He speaks soft words to persuade; but if that is not enough, he does not scruple to knock the muck-rake out of sordid hands with a fine, sudden stroke, if so he may make men look up from the rubbish under their feet to the flowers that bloom around them and the stars that glow above and the God that reigns over all.

" CHAPTER XIV TWO AND TWO "Shall we make the haying a society affair for ladies in French frocks, or an athletic event for a lot of young fellows who don't know a rake from a pitchfork?"

He certainly does mean to take One of the girls, and close The life he leadsthe flirting rake

Are we to like a pleasant rake, or coxcomb, on the stage, and give ourselves airs of aversion for the identical character presented to us in actual life?

At the moment we brought up, the wind had hauled a little further to the northward, giving us a better lee; but, to my great regret, Michael had scarcely left us, when it shifted to due north-east, making a fair rake of the channel.

Strangely enough, men who are so sensitive about the moral welfare of women will visit a dance hall where women are degraded nightly, and will allow their daughters to marry "reformed" rakes.

Sally picked up a rake lying in the path and brandished it fiercely.

But now I have undervalued myself, in apologizing to thee on this occasion, let me use another argument in favour of my observation, that the ladies generally prefer a rake to a sober man; and of my presumption upon it, that Miss Howe is in love with me: it is this: common fame says, That Hickman is a very virtuous, a very innocent fellowa male-virgin, I warrant!An odd dog I always thought him.

But I am evermore for quitting a too-easy prey to reptile rakes!

Then he made a bee-line dash for a broken stack against which rested a large field rake.

When you kin make two bush'ls corn wu'th a bush'l wheat by law an' keep 'em there, you can fix the rasho 'twixt silver an' gold, an' not before," and the old man shouldered his rake and wandered on up the road.

Here, use your rake like this.

34 Verbs to Use for the Word  raked