Banking can be safely and effectively done by raking the coals and unconsumed fuel into a pile on the hearth and covering the pile with a few inches of earth.
If bricks are porous or eroded, raking out the mortar one-half of an inch deep and applying three-fourths of an inch of cement plaster to the surfaces is effective.
The redcoats kept up the bloodless contest by raking with their cannon the patriots' feeble breastworks of ice and snow.
On the other hand, the Louisiana and a water battery did fine work with their raking fire, and soon blew the sugar barrels into thousands of pieces.
Sure enough, the Guerriere swings round and gets a raking fire, which cuts away the foremast and much of the rigging, and leaves her a helpless hulk in the trough of the sea.
Under a raking fire the troops marched at a double quick, and began pouring over the breastwork, many falling in the assault of approach, and many more on the walls, and within the fort.
Raking up dead ashes is a poor sort of game, and an unprofitable one.
While sheeting home, we saw the Ayacucho standing athwart our hawse, sharp upon the wind, cutting through the head seas like a knife, with her raking masts, and her sharp bows running up like the head of a greyhound.
The great line marched steadily onward, and the cannon thundered and roared over the heads of the men raking the wood with steel.
The lawyers had spared neither their own time nor the money of their clients in raking together testimony which would bear in the slightest degree upon the interests which they represented.
In the first mead they were already loading hay, the women raking it into cocks and windrows, and the men tossing it upon the waggon.
The basin and quay walls at Bremen, Bremerhaven and Hamburg were built on a series of bearing and raking piles driven down to a firm stratum, the wall being begun a few feet below low water.
All this time a raking fire from the fort had been pouring upon the Brooklyn, and just as she escaped from the Manassas a large Confederate steamer attacked her.
Soon a shot cut the cable of the Hermes, and she floated away with the current, her head toward the fort, and her decks swept of men and everything by a raking fire from the fort.
Its heavy shot went whizzing between the schooner's raking masts, doing no actual damage, but serving as a serious warning.
They'd ha' been smashed by a raking fire at short range.
She was schooner-rigged, with tall, tapering, raking masts that promised for her an ample spread of canvas.
His determination to hold it blazed out from that soft carpet of green in cruel machine-gun fire, raking the open spaces.
All night plunging fire from the bluffs continued, and raking fire from the houses swept the streets, while the western and northern edges of the town were being organized to turn over to the 78th Division.
It was to remain in line in a tug-of-war with the enemy until it took part in the general attack of October 4th, being all the while under that raking cross artillery fire that made the Corps sector a hell night and day.
The drops, which had at first hit their left cheeks like the pellets of a popgun, soon assumed the character of a raking fusillade from the bank adjoining, one shot of which was sufficiently smart to go through Jocelyn's sleeve.
The hansom turned the corner, and he obtained a raking view of the houses along the north side, of which hers was one, with the familiar linkman at the door.
So he went towards the fire, and there the old woman was raking sticks and leaves into the embers.
Then he came to the clearing among the trees, where the fire was burning and where the old woman was raking sticks and leaves into the flames.
As he walked he saw the light of a fire, and making his way to it he found an old woman raking sticks and dried leaves together, and burning them in a glade of the wood.
At this distance of time I cannot remember whether I ever gave a thought to Polina; I seemed only to be conscious of a vague pleasure in seizing and raking in the bank-notes which kept massing themselves in a pile before me.
And why does he keep raking in all the money that is on the table?
The merit of the original idea of a raking pot of tea evidently belongs to the washerwoman and the laundry-maid.
The time when the festive ceremony begins varies according to circumstances, but it is never earlier than twelve o'clock at night; the joys of a raking pot of tea depending on its being made in secret, and at an unseasonable hour.
The risks of grave injury were therefore greatly increased by exposure to this, which by soldiers is called enfilading, but at sea a raking fire; and to avoid such mischance was one of the principal concerns of a captain in a naval duel.
Surprise was felt on board the British vessel that a raking broadside was not at this moment poured in, and it was even believed by some that the American was now abandoning the contest.
I’m just raking in the dollars now hand over fist, and learning painting all the time into the bargain.
If you could contrive to smash a good number of her oars with a raking shot it would be better even than hulling her; for, after all, it would be a terrible thing to destroy so much life.
Again Mason levelled the gun, taking a long and careful aim as before; and this time the shot struck the sill of the frigate's lee bridle port, entering the port, and no doubt raking the deck for a considerable portion of its length.
The three canoes now placed themselves on the bow, stern and side of the boat, opening a raking fire upon the whites; but the steady firing from the boat had a powerful effect in checking the confidence and the fury of the savages.
Her vague nose had settled into the forward-raking line that made her the dark likeness of her father.
Rounded heads carrying a clump of trees like a comb; long steep groins packed with tree-tops; raking necks hog-maned with stiff plantations.
His object was to cross the bows of the American ship, and get in a raking broadside,--the end and aim of most of the naval manoeuvring in those days of wooden ships and heavy batteries.
That was the moment for a raking volley; and with deadly aim the Americans poured it in, and the heavy iron bolts swept the decks of the "Frolic" from stem to stern.
Finally, after receiving two raking broadsides from the "Enterprise," she again struck her flag.
Great was their surprise, then, when they were permitted to take a raking position under the stern of the "Hope," and to board her without a shot being fired.
Again the "Serapis" sought to get a raking position; but by this time Jones had determined that his only hope lay in boarding.
The first raking broadside was delivered by the "Constitution," and did terrible execution along the gun-deck of the English ship.
The two ships were at no time separated by a greater distance than half a pistol-shot, and were continually manoeuvring to cross each others' bows, and get in a raking broadside.
The decks of the Frenchman were covered with dead and wounded, and at last two raking broadsides from the American frigate ended the conflict.
All this time Tucker had been manoeuvring to secure a raking position.
When the enemy, therefore, at last passed under our stern, we were able to luff up and avoid the raking fire he poured in.
Gradually the sails of a ship with tautraking masts became visible.
If he hasn't been fool enough to outfit the boys on credit he must have been raking in money.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
