By and by he took off a hissing kettle, and when they had made a meal they lay down in their wet clothes amidst a raffleof more or less dripping ropes and sails.
Beatrice really--the result of the raffle for the children's charity.
And Johnny handed to Sir Raffle an official document of large dimensions.
Sir Raffle turned his face upon his private secretary, and his face was very black.
At last he had utterly thrown over Sir Raffle Buffle, declaring to his friends that the special duties of private secretaryship were not exactly to his taste.
But now Sir Raffle was very angry, and his countenance was full of wrath as he looked down upon his subordinate minister.
Johnny, indeed, had made up his mind that Sir Raffle should be very angry.
But Sir Raffle was not an acutely observant person, and did not see that anything was wrong.
Probably he had stated that matter of moment in this very document which Sir Rafflewas holding in his hand.
I'll be even with him some day yet," said Sir Raffle to himself.
The earl had given him a watch and had left him a fortune, and Sir Raffle Buffle had made him a private secretary.
And when John's holiday was over, he returned to his duties at the elbow of Sir Raffle Buffle.
Then Sir Raffle explained that John Eames was his private secretary, and that Johnny's journey to the Continent had been made with, and could not have been made without, his sanction.
Can ye fancy Duffy gaun roond tryin' to sell tickets for a raffle o' a canary in a cage?
They're sellin' carpet slippers, or bonny wee bunches o' flooers, or raffletickets for a rale heliotrope Persian cat.
This raffle was made famous by the fact that I won something.
Brief~, a pawnbroker's duplicate; a raffle card, or a ticket of any kind.
From that to helping him cut you out of your raffle with the Cherokees was but a hand's turn in the day's work.
The party now entered the shop where the raffle was to be held.
When I came to the library, the master of the raffle told me it was against all rule to refund a subscription.
I must rather make a rafflewith my own trinkets, than raffle for other people's.
Camilla said no, with a sigh attributed to the ear-rings, but due to a tender recollection of the raffle in which Edgar had procured her the trinket she most valued.
Edgar was already there; he had no power to keep away from any place where he was sure to behold Camilla; and a raffle brought to his mind the most tender recollections.
The drawing of the numbers in the raffle was about to be made.
They are going toraffle Hartrath's picture,--for the benefit of the Gingerbread Fair.
The raffle of Hartrath's picture was over, and as Presley turned about he saw Mrs. Cedarquist and her two daughters signalling eagerly to the manufacturer, unable to reach him because of the intervening crowd.
For the moment, the polite clamour of the rafflehushed itself--the winning number was being drawn.
They descended to the lower floor and involved themselves for a moment in the throng of fashionables that blocked the hallway and the entrance to the main room, where the numbers of the raffle were being drawn.
It lookit like's there was genna be a sale or a raffle or something.
Is it proper to raffle property for the benefit of missionaries?
Some shelter must be improvised to protect the sleeping man from the sun, but in the raffle around there did not seem enough tent cloth to make even an umbrella.
I quite gave myself up for lost; for, as I have already said, I was so completely enmeshed by the raffle of loose gear which had wrapped itself about my body and limbs that I was quite powerless to help myself.
Would Your Grace hold me greatly to blame were I to rafflethem at our next rummage sale?
I might be able to raise quite a nice sum for our local Seed Potato Committee by a Spring raffle of my longer and more elaborate compositions.
And since everybody is beginning to take a modern view of Bonus Bonds I do not think that a raffle for such a purpose need arouse serious opposition.
At top, these verses: Alarme O le pipeur, chassez, chassez le moy, Je ne veux pas jouer a la raffle avec toy.
While Carl was opening the box of beans and getting dinner, Dick began clearing the deck of the raffle of cordage that covered it.
We can clear away the raffle and take more comfort on the wreck.
If, after the raffle is over, a majority of the members shall decide that any of us have reason to laugh at the winner of this painting, I will refund all the money paid for tickets.
When they came home in the evening each found his picture, with his name on the back of it, and a printed slip informing him that in thisraffle there had been no blanks, and that every man had drawn a prize.
The raffle was announced, and on the appointed evening there was a full attendance.
I wish I had known that," said I; "I should have been spared a stifling scramble over the casks andraffle forwards.
Not even a word was said to me when I ventured to crawl into the raffle of rags which was my bunk.
By the way, in the raffle I won a vase with 2 turtledoves and a bag of sweets and R.
Well, our purchases were all packed into two or three rucksacks, and were kept for a raffle in Unter-Toifen on the way back.
And next evening there was to be a great raffle of the mementoes we had bought, but Father would not let us go to that.
After the wife and children retired, a good number of customers came in, and a raffle was started for a watch, thirty members at a shilling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raffle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: drawing; raffle; sweep
