But those details are interesting, if at all, only as means of eking out a mere sketch which can never become a complete and faithful picture.
How are these myriads to be fettered permanently and kept from eking out a livelihood in the future on the lines traced by necessity or interest in the past?
When his sugar-card was eventually handed to him he had again to stand in line outside the grocer's door and, when his turn came to enter it, was frequently told that the supply was exhausted and would not be replenished for a week or longer.
From military operations, however, Switzerland is dispensed, but it would certainly be bound to adopt economic measures of pressure, and to this extent abandon its neutrality.
The fore-eking of forgive, forbear, is a most useful one.
Lord 597, and spent his time for the more part in warres, not giuing place to idlenesse, but séeking either to defend or inlarge the confines of his dominion.
Wherefore he himselfe was glad in the end to beare his men companie, in séeking to saue himselfe by flight, and make such shift as he could amongst the residue.
The father and sonne being not a litle offended herewith, committed most of his bishops to ward séeking by threats and menacings to bring them to his purpose.
It may be that I am not doomed to be lucky, as surely thou art; and it may well be that thou mayst give me thy luck and make thee less lucky, without eking mine, if unluck be my weird.
They roamed the Piraeus, and even the streets of Athens, after dark, eking out a miserable subsistence by the hardest of trades, and haunting the dark recesses of old houses or the shade of trees.
One day the eking had gone to the chase, and the palace remained void of rivals; so the mother called in her son, kissed his fair face, and told him the tale of her great sorrow.
FN#452] wherefore the girls sought succor of the Lord of All-might, and complained to Him of the tyranny of the eking and of his oppression.
When the king returned from the chase, the chamberlain related to him what he had seen, and the eking was angry and said, "This woman hath deceived me with words and deeds, and has brought hither her desire by craft and cunning.
Which thing is to be thought to procéede of fierie matter, séeking a vent to gush out.
She had a leaning for real ladies, having been a parlourmaid previous to marrying a butler and eking out his income by letting rooms.
They had to have some way of eking out a reasonable existence.
His name was Wingate--Stephen Wingate--and he was eking out a not too robust existence in South Third Street as a broker.
There would not be much coal left for steaming purposes in the spring, but I anticipated eking out the supply with blubber.
Bread is out of the question, and as we are husbanding the remaining cases of our biscuits for our prospective boat journey, we are eking out the supply of flour by making bannocks, of which we have from three to four each day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
