But I had to have it; so I went down on my hands and knees, with one slipper on and the other in my hand, and began to paw gently around and rake the floor, but with no success.

When Miss Harris returned with the rake and cheerfully inquired: "Anything else tonight, Mr. "Oh, certainly--certainly--just as you say," stammered unhappy Matthew, seizing the rake and making for the door.

Leaning upon his rake , the Peasant returned the salutation with a nod, but said nothing.

Leaving the window now and then, to rake the crackling logs together, or pace the echoing room from end to end, he closed it when the fire was quite burnt up, and having wheeled the easiest chair into the warmest corner, summoned John Willet.

I will take care and stand behind the door.' And the cook said, 'Yes, you may go, but be back again in half an hour's time, to rake out the ashes.' Then she took her little lamp, and went into her cabin, and took off the fur skin, and washed the soot from off her face and hands, so that her beauty shone forth like the sun from behind the clouds.

McGREGOR was on his hands and knees planting out young cabbages, but he jumped up and ran after Peter, waving a rake and calling out, "Stop thief!"

He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.

There now, I like your Denisov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so you see I do understand.

Yashvin, a gambler and a rake , a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.

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.