In his hand he held the coal-rake, And was stirring up the fire, And he raked the coals together.
Then she piled up sticks and pieces of dried fir tree wood about the pots, and laid little faggots all round, and raked up the hot ashes and set fire to the pile.
When they came out after tea, they found the ashes still quite hot; but they got a garden rake and raked them off, and there were the two cups baked light brown and quite hard.
She raked away the fire to one side, and set the pots where the fire had been, standing them all upside down, and ranging them together in as small a space as possible.
I raked up old gossip outside, and I got in easily enough, for the Mother Superior and the nuns are nice to visitors who seem interested.
At last all the money which Mary had brought with her was exhausted, and Lady Dauntrey, who had raked in more than twenty louis, offered laughingly to lend her something to go on with.
When he had finished, she said: "So Heinz has raked up that old story again, has he?
Why has so wise a statesman as Prince Bismarck is reputed to be raked up these embers of dissension, and fanned them into so fierce a flame?
He raked up dead leaves of last year's winter and made a pillow, against which he reclined luxuriously.
Then they raked in heaps of dead leaves and sat down upon them comfortably.
At last he rose, fetched in a large piece of coal, andraked the fire.
Mrs. Morel, very tired, and sick of his babble, went to bed as quickly as possible, while he raked the fire.
Onawa wildly snatched a stick and raked the glowing fragments into a pyramid, upon which she flung some roots of willow.
Am I to give away girl, land, and all to the fellow I raked out of his swamps?
Captain Blood's glance rakedthe ranks of those resolute, fierce-eyed fellows, then it came to rest again on Ogle.
Then, as, telescope to his eye, Blood raked the haze, expecting at any moment to behold the battling ships, the guns abruptly ceased.
On the quay stood an altar, upon which charcoal ever burnt, under the charge of a priest who attended to it continuously, and whenever a ship entered the port or was about to leave, added fuel, and raked and blew up the fire.
Vespasian was unwilling to undo the past, and have the scandal raked up again, and public attention called to it.
Last night my deputies came onto the island in a boat, and this morning we raked in all of the gang.
Mr. Cooler seemed to regret the time he had spent in talk, for he made a fierce dive at the clams and raked out two of them.
He raked out another clam, but dropped it, shaking his hand and blowing on his fingers.
He did not wait for it to die down, but raked away everything but the red-hot coals and some of the stones in the fireplace of stone.
The use of wood ashes, well raked in immediately in advance of sowing, will prove highly beneficial to the crop, for the Pea is a potash-loving plant.
Wood ashes (in a dry state) are also of great value, and these should be rakedin a little in advance of planting out.
This enemy cannot be raked in rank and file, but must be taken in detail, as in guerilla warfare.
The plants should not be cut down until they change colour; then all the top-growth may be cleared away and the surface raked clean.
As the preparation of an Onion bed approaches completion, powdered lime well mixed with soot, in the proportion of two bushels of the former to one of the latter, may be sown evenly over the surface and raked in.
Land dug now for spring seeds and roots, and kept quite rough, will only require to be levelled down and raked over when spring comes to be ready for seed, and will produce better crops than if prepared in a hurry.
The joints are raked out to a depth of half an inch or more, well wetted, and then refilled with a fine mortar composed specially to resist the action of the weather.
The joints should be well raked out and pointed in Portland cement mortar.
This refusal was used by the royalists to attack the marshal, against whom they raked up every offence they could think of.
While you and yours have rakedthe gold We've raked the burning stubble; While we lay frozen in the cold You froze our chances double.
When we had raked and swept, and brushed and put back the articles accepted by the board, and all was trim and neat, Westbury looked in.
He had planted his tripod fifty feet back of the barricade, plumb against a red-brick, three-story house, so that the lens raked the street and its defenses diagonally.
A couple of machine guns placed on the trench at Pervyse could have raked the ruined village and killed our three nurses.
The front lines of the Yser were rakedclear by shell, rifle, and machine-gun fire.
No, it was a schooner that I was aboard of--a schooner whose mastsraked devilishly as the leaping seas hissed along her low black gunwale.
Besides, no end of things would beraked up and a motive established.
The day was abominably oppressive, and the hot wind from the north raked everything.
The baboon had got his two long teeth in the big throat, and there he had held while the tiger with his hind claws raked the stomach clean out of him.
The ground should be plowed or spaded to a good depth, about the same as for potatoes, and harrowed or raked until it is thoroughly pulverized, not only on the surface, but down deep.
In either case they can be covered with a cultivator, as before described, ridged up, and harrowed or raked afterwards, thus saving the first and most expensive weeding.
When used before planting, it is put on with a grain drill, or, if the area is small, is rakedin by hand.
I know nothing about boat-building even if I had the tools, and Macro won't turn to it till he has raked through the wreckage, and that will take him about a hundred years.
He glanced at the fire and raked his mind for an explanation of it.
They reached the pile without any difficulty, and the mate's keen eye raked round for the likeliest stuff for a raft.
Old Will Taggart's, I think," and he stove it open, and went down on his knees and raked over the contents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
