As a most particular evidence of the detestation in which Chartersea was held, he could find nothing in common with such notorious rakes as March and Sandwich.
The report I had heard was now confirmed, that his fortune was dissipated, and that he lived entirely off these young rakes who aspired to be macaronies.
You know we were all of us rakes at fifteen, to whom everything good in the universe was a joke.
But our rakesand wits, and even our solid men, like my grandfather, received him with open arms.
And then above the rattling of the prisoners' rakes I heard the distant strains of a marching song that brought a lump to my throat.
Sir Jeoffry, who had watched her as she queened it amongst rakes and fops and honest country squires and knights, had marked the vigour with which they plied her with an emotion which was a new sensation to his drink- bemuddled brain.
The Pope received an incalculable sum of money, for two priests stood day and night at the altar of St. Peter, with rakes in their hands, raking up the heaps of money.
No mountain billow's huge uplifted crest Lashes the foaming beach with sullen roar; The smooth sea sparkles in unbroken rest, Or lightly rakes upon the pebbled shore.
If she "rakes away," or wanders far from you in making her airy circles, call her back before it is too late.
The nearer you approach, and the farther the hawk rakes away, the more does the decision incline towards making a bolt of it; but papa grouse is not going to make a fool of himself by bolting at the moment which you would prefer.
Fearing the worst, both boys had equipped themselves with large rakes and cutting tools.
Does not the Mason-bee, "which rakes the roads for a dry powdery dust and mixes it with saliva to convert it into a hard cement," foresee that this mud will harden?
Let the women be ever so exemplary, their conduct will have no influence over these professed rakes; these rakes upon principle, as that iniquitous Lord Chesterfield has taught our youth to be.
All the mowing was done with scythes, and the raking with hand rakes and "loafer" rakes.
There would certainly be no difficulty in finding flesh and blood originals for the rakes and the fine ladies in the memoirs of Grammont or the diaries of Pepys.
From the winrows it is drawn usually on rakes of a certain make, and the rake loads thus slid over the ground are lifted bodily onto the stack by the use of the "rickers.
Then Bob got the water barrels and two rakes and put them on a stone drag, while his uncle harnessed up old Frank.
They took their rakes and waded out to one of these pools.
We'll bring down a barrel or two and a couple of rakes and have a regular turtle hunt," he laughed.
The second pool contained four, and as soon as they had them out of the water they dropped their rakes and grasping a tail in each hand they waded through the mud to the shore.
We went back to the south field and plied our seven rakes vigorously for an hour and a half.
We usually harvested from seventy to seventy-five tons, and in the days of scythes and hand rakes that meant that we had to do a good deal of hard, hot, sweaty work.
Theze rakes are az eazy tew keep in repair az a hitching post, and will rake up a paper ov pins, sowed broad kast, in a ten aker lot ov wheat stubble.
Theze rakes kan be used in the winter for a hen roost, or be sawed up into stove wood for the kitchen fire.
NAN, as they set down their burdens to lean the rakesagainst the wall, where four flails are hung, on the left of the door.
Now theirrakes were loaded with masses of silver bullion.
Hereupon the captain and all the crew set to work, with iron rakes and great hooks and lines, fishing for gold and silver at the bottom of the sea.
This is well enough in open daylight, and when you are swathed in buskins from heel to hip, and your rakes are good for retaliation.
Ten stately trees adorn the isle, The house, a crazy, tottering pile, Where once the doctor plied his trade On feverish tars and rakes decayed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
