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1. Mining Bees in the lawn: Their mounds can be removed with a rake
2. He could barely see through the streams of water running across his horn-rimmed, circular, bottle glasses, and to look at him dripping and sodden in brown tweed and corduroy waistcoat, as thin as a rake and far too short to be a policeman, you would think him incapable of exerting the slightest force upon fresh air
3. ‘Didn’t rake out the ashes – modern society! Always expecting others to clear up after them
4. He found a plastic thing that looked a little like a miniature garden rake without the handle
5. And her hair is like a rake of last years hay,
6. Jelion Rake was a 28 year old salesman from Oakleron, Flintwood, who got married only a few months before his body was discovered
7. What was in that bottle of Doc's? Never again! Not after a rake of pints and Southern Comfort
8. “This is a good place you’ve chosen here Corporal Lamb you should be able to rake them from here
9. Before all, the material of time ripped apart with fiery swathes and out stepped a tall, thin almost rake like man
10. Next, he used some of the claws on his left paw to rake the ropes on the side of the tree, which seemed to have a greater effect
11. The beast twisted in midair to rake a massive paw across his back
12. He reached out towards the rake again, but the cat lunged at his hand, ripping four deep lines across his knuckles
13. The pain was incapacitating, but she managed to rake her nails across his wrist, trying to free herself
14. “Derek Hill, there is no such thing as a Rake, I do not believe you were sailing in the area and were run off course
15. someone has gone over the ground with a rake to cover their
16. know is that he’s armed with a rake and is highly dangerous
17. read out ‘Serial rake killer on the loose, six missing persons feared scraped to death, Runcorn reeling in a state of garden panic
18. Did you check the local hardware stores to see if anybody had purchased a rake within the last few weeks?”
19. “You came unescorted so you could choose from all the available females here, you rake!”
20. The Captain thrust the rake, but Boglehob deflected the blow with the handle of his scythe
21. Then Boglehob swung again, and again the Captain blocked the attack with his rake
22. The Captain aimed another stab of the rake at his adversary, but Boglehob dodged the blow and jabbed his scythe at the Captain’s left flank
23. “You’ll have to kill me first,” said the Captain, aiming another thrust of his rake at Boglehob
24. “The rake!” Bryony squealed at Zach, nodding her head at the Captain’s discarded weapon that had landed on the ramp next to the trailer
25. “Grab the Captain’s rake!”
26. Zach reached for the rake, but had to retreat as Boglehob swung the scythe at him
27. But then the scarecrow’s leading foot trod on the fallen rake, and the long wooden handle shot up to knock his head off his shoulders
28. Peering upwards, Edwin saw why: Zach’s fingers were losing their grip on the rake
29. No rake or shovel is required
30. When you rake through the embers of other
31. I came to think that if it were up to him, I would have been thrown to the marbles of the burning hell, ravaging my flesh with a sharp rake to make more infamous my pain
32. You have nothing left to do but kick back and rake in the cash
33. It was my chore to rake the carpet with a leaf rake every weekend
34. Would I then go his mother’s way? Oh, what a dreadful prospect that would be! And that might rake up the past wounds to compound guruji’s pain!’
35. Turn out on cake rake
36. Rake it, so that it would be absorbed by the grass better
37. When you start gardening, there are certain materials that you would need such as a rake, pots, shovel, and such
38. shift your clothes: In the winter, put the snow shovel in front and the rake in the back
39. Then she thought it was possibly a rake or a spade
40. Will went up to the hole with his rake
41. Will continued pushing the rake into the indentation
42. Will stuck the rake into the pile of leaves
43. He dumped the leaves in the current and used the rake to help the water break up the leaves
44. So what is it that allows a super affiliate to make hundreds or even thousands of sales when you struggle to make 5 sales of the same product? Why is that that super affiliates rake in the cash while you struggle to get by?
45. These companies often rake in a large amount of money selling worthless information and
46. The big-time plantation owners could have paid workers a decent wage but instead chose to rake in the profits by utilizing workers who were subservient to them
47. For several years I’d graze three or four head of cattle, and would mow and rake hay with horse drawn equipment
48. Waiting for another burst to rake again the car she was using as cover, she then popped her torso up, her shotgun leveled and pointed, and fired a slug at an upper floor window where she knew that one shooter was firing at her
49. medical research for AID’s and cancer, and how much the pharmaceutical companies rake in every year?”
50. rake it for the house’s cut of the profit and know how to accept a
1. Compost should be raked into lawn and then watered well
2. thin scars, as if a large tom cat had raked talons across his skin
3. His fingers traced the ragged grooves of three long but thin scars, as if a large tom cat had raked talons across his skin
4. "…Two's of inglethor" and raked in thirteen more
5. By tea time he had laid all of the remaining hardcore, covered it with gravel and soft sand, and raked it level and smooth so that he could begin laying the slabs the following weekend
6. sand, and raked it level and smooth so that he could begin laying
7. way through the open gate and along the wide path of raked gravel
8. “Nobody wanted to play poker,” Pick chimed in as he raked more money
9. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry, and deeds still to be done; of broad meadows, and cattle browsing in them, raked by sun and wind; of kitchen-gardens, and straight herb-borders, and warm snap-dragon beset by bees; and of the comforting clink of dishes set down on the table at Toad Hall, and the scrape of chair-legs on the floor as everyone pulled himself close up to the table
10. In my mind, she was an immortal executioner who continuously raked her axe against my brain stem
11. His sharp hoof raked her drooping face
12. itself was screaming in agonised protest, the five black talons raked their way back towards their
13. Walls of the palace surrounded the churchyard though the walls were raked levels to allow hours of daylight to penetrate the stain glass windows of the church
14. ” She raked them with her
15. Her blade raked across his forearm
16. Stumbling backwards, Brokin's assailant did his best to dodge the swiftly moving claws as they repeatedly raked across his snout, but with little success
17. He raked her with his gaze, still spinning the jack to lower it
18. “What?” His gaze raked across my face
19. I tried picking it up by grabbing the sides of the shell, but it had very sharp claws that it raked against my fingers
20. From 1995 to 2005, billionaire Ted Turner raked in $590,823
21. She walked out heading to her room and I went down the stairs untangling the mess she made with my hair, I raked my fingers through it smiling
22. 46 Even the bones of their first born who had died before this and whom they had buried in their houses, were raked up by the dogs of Egypt on that night and dragged before the Egyptians and throw before them
23. 46 Even the bones of their first born who had died before this and whom they had buried in their houses were raked up by the dogs of Egypt on that night and dragged before the Egyptians and throw before them
24. Titus rolled his eyes in exasperation and vaulted from his saddle at the creature as it raked its talons across her chest, ripping her clothing but the thick rings of her chain vest below held back the vicious assault
25. The demon swung around, attempting to shake the warrior free, its teeth raked through his armoured shoulder and into his flesh
26. In my private email I raked Bush and his neo-con bastards over the coals
27. He raked a hand through his hair, which was doing that sexy, spilling
28. the ceiling as he raked a hand through his hair, thinking
29. The lion raked me with its claws, ripping off a chunk of my coat
30. It wasn’t until Zar raked his claws across the foreman’s face that the laughter stopped
31. " REEEEEEEEET!" it squealed, and raked the three skeletons aside with its tusks
32. His steel gray eyes raked her from head to toe and back again,
33. She cringed sickeningly as his eyes perversely raked over her
34. The lion sat on a wooden dais a fin above the finely raked sand
35. The remaining friends cleaned, raked, and helped their neighbors
36. tribe had raked the fire
37. She laughed as she raked her talons down the left side of his face and grabbing
38. Jonathan watched the houses fly by, backyards filled with broken leaves waiting to be raked, piled high and jumped on by some spoiled Greenwich kid
39. The resort they stayed in had a long sandy beach that was raked by the staff every morning before the guests went to use it
40. "What of the swords of Xuthal?" He continually raked his arm across his eyes as if to clear his blurred sight
41. She raked back her hair and stared blankly up into his face
42. She paused and raked a damp lock of hair out of her eyes
43. The talons raked his breast, ripping through mail-links as if they had been cloth
44. Some of these boats had been sunk by stones from the city's ballistas, which crashed through their decks and ripped out their planking, but the rest held their places and from their bows and mast-heads, protected by mandets, archers raked the riverward turrets
45. He had hoped his retirement would draw the knights out in a charge down the slopes after him, to be raked from either flank by his bowmen and swamped by the numbers of his horsemen
46. But they could not break the iron wedge, and from the wooded knolls on either hand arrows raked their close-packed ranks mercilessly
47. With the frenetic side to side serpentine motion of a ruptured air hose the fired up boar raked the bull‘s hind legs as the bucking animal tried to turn and gore his tormentor
48. He had raked in a lot more than a government job salary
49. “To hell with that!” he raked his fingers through his hair in a peculiar way that reminded me of Charles when he got angry
50. Automated lasers mounted on the roof raked the access routes until the helicopters destroyed them
1. Our ponies paused in the center of the village; people stopped to watch, rakes or vegetable baskets in hand
2. When I lived there, the hooks were used to hold mundane things like rakes and shovels
3. The boys, who still had their yard cleaning tools, sat everything down on the ground except their rakes
4. • The porn industry rakes in $14 billion or more annually
5. It hurts like the burn in his lungs as he holds himself back while she rakes her fingers through his hair and her tongue presses into his mouth
6. The men mounted their horses and Catkin sat a moment in his saddle as he glared up the long street at the crowd of townsmen who were holding axes, rakes and scythes as their weapons
7. This book is a “drag-net” after the false premises of men, and if it rakes to the bottom, uncovering the secret sources of error, exposing the evasive and elliptical nature of arguments relied upon to establish the doctrine, it is the friend of all who love truth
8. Examples are Bonsai tools, pruners, extended reach tools, propagating pots, rakes, knives, hoses, shears and snips, power tools and other tools
9. The tower contained implements, such as spades, rakes, watering-pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furniture
10. Bäcker’s gaze rakes across the rows
11. Metallic, tattered moonlight shatters across the road, and a white horse stands chewing in a field, and a searchlight rakes the sky, and in the lit window of a mountain cabin, for a split second as they rumble past, Werner sees Jutta seated at a table, the bright faces of other children around her, Frau Elena’s needlepoint over the sink, the corpses of a dozen infants heaped in a bin beside the stove
12. The moment I reached the door, I ran forward with my stick raised, but not with any design of striking man, woman, or child, when a ramplor devil, the young laird of Swinton, who was one of the most outstrapolous rakes about the town, wrenched it out of my grip, and would have, I dare say, made no scruple of doing me some dreadful bodily harm, when suddenly I found myself pulled out of the crowd by a powerful-handed woman, who cried, “Come, my love; love, come:” and who was this but that scarlet strumpet, Mrs Beaufort, who having lost her gallant in the crowd, and being, as I think, blind fou, had taken me for him, insisting before all present that I was her dear friend, and that she would die for me—with other siclike fantastical and randy ranting, which no queen in a tragedy could by any possibility surpass
13. It was for his interests that every laborer should work as hard as possible, and that while doing so he should keep his wits about him, so as to try not to break the winnowing machines, the horse rakes, the thrashing machines, that he should attend to what he was doing
14. Christian rakes his hand through his hair as he gazes at me
15. Still, she was oddly contented here, among all these old tools she could picture in their dad’s hands: rakes with bent tines, axes of every length, shelves packed with jars filled with screws and nails and washers
16. In addition to the elaborate arrays of saws, scissors, and hammers, there was a barrel filled with wooden rakes
17. When the other feller finally shows that he’s got only a pair of nines and rakes in all the money in the world, this Moe Green goes into hysterics, and aint recovered yet
18. Now my Fears were quieted again, for this devilish Club seem’d nothing more than a Group of bor’d Rakes pursuing their usual Pleasures of Wine, Women, and Gluttony, albeit in monastick Garb and deep within the Bowels of the Earth
19. The Age had granted him Pleasures unabated, had indulged his ev’ry Whim—whether lustful or pecuniary; thus he had ne’er learnt Self-Control, Self-Rule, or Moderation of his Passions: Married young to a timid Heiress who could not raise her Voice to him, school’d in Scandal amidst Whores and Rakes, how could he practise that Humility which manifests itself in Kindness? I fervently believe that the Rules I impos’d upon his Impulsive Nature did his Soul more good, i’faith, than his whole willful, Pleasure-seeking Life before he found me in the Hell-Fire Caves!
20. Thus I began to spin out an amusing Tale of Star-cross’d Lovers, compleat with swooning Virgins, rough-hewn Rakes, lustful Sea Captains, and ruin’d Courtiers
21. This is great! He rakes in the chips
22. Both Kuragin and Dolokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes and scapegraces of Petersburg
23. Rakes, those male Magdalenes, have a secret feeling of innocence similar to that which female Magdalenes have, based on the same hope of forgiveness
24. In the winter of '46-7 there came a hundred men of Hyperborean extraction swoop down on to our pond one morning, with many carloads of ungainly-looking farming tools—sleds, plows, drill-barrows, turf-knives, spades, saws, rakes, and each man was armed with a double-pointed pike-staff, such as is not described in the New-England Farmer or the Cultivator
25. Should any unwarrantably pert young Leviathan coming that way, presume to draw confidentially close to one of the ladies, with what prodigious fury the Bashaw assails him, and chases him away! High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for, alas! all fish bed in common
26. Rakes in the ashes? Is there any safety
27. Both Kurágin and Dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes and scapegraces of Petersburg
28. Of what is this production composed? I am told of the land which produces the grass; of capital (scythes, rakes, pitch-forks, carts which are necessary for the housing of the hay); and of labour
29. The old man's wife rakes together unceasingly, her kerchief loosened from her disordered hair; she carries the hay, breathing heavily and staggering under the burden: the cobbler's mother is only raking, but this is also beyond her strength; she slowly drags her feet, in baste shoes, and looks gloomily before her, like one very ill, or at the point of death
30. The old woman of fifty rakes away without stopping, and with her kerchief awry she drags the hay, breathing heavily and tottering
31. The old woman of eighty only rakes the hay, but even this is beyond her strength; she slowly drags along her feet, shod with bast shoes, and, frowning, she gazes gloomily before her, like a seriously ill or dying person
1. "I'm working for it," Yarin said while throwing triple scaleskins and raking in three more teners and a bunch of change
2. only concentrated on the dirt he was raking on the mound
3. She plays a jaguar, raking her six-foot scratching tree
4. Carl continued raking and snarling when he noticed a sensation on the top of his head
5. Without warning, he swiped Brightness across the snout, raking her from eye to nose
6. A short while later he was raking through the remains of the nest, grunting his disappointment when his search proved fruitless, but as he turned from the debris, a glint caught his eye– something down in the bottom of the nest twinkling up at him
7. “Thirty-five winner,” said the spinner, while raking the losing bets towards her
8. not for outing, but for lying, not the kind of lying like “I had no sexual relations with that woman” (distinctly refuted by the blue dress), but the kind of lying that came from raking over reams of testimony in an attempt to find a failed recollection
9. Had he planned it this way to make up to me what I’d endured at their hands? He continued raking them with his scorn
10. The jock inhaled a gulp of air, releasing it slowly through his nostrils, raking his hair with his fingers the way he did often around me
11. My stomach turned again and for a moment I thought I had gone soft, but this wasn't a body I was raking out of the coals, this was my Rosie, and I had to keep running, when I wanted to be weeping my heart out over where she lay burning
12. and raking the darkness with our searching hands to try and help
13. Sorus had conjured an invisible barrier about himself, absorbing the raking blows from the enraged Soul Beast that seemed to grow feeding from his magic, although, from the desperate look on his face, it didn’t look as if his magic would hold for much longer
14. As the beast raised its arms he slashed down at its belly then avoided the raking talons that tried to rip at his face
15. through the library, smashing statues of the gods and raking books off the
16. I dove at the monster’s eye, raking it with my claws
17. pulled the letter out and unfolded it, his eyes raking greedily over
18. The panic threatened to overwhelm him; he sank to his knees beside the fall’s river and dropped his head into his hands, raking his fingers through his over-long hair
19. Still frenzied, the big hog ran under the bull and started raking the beast‘s belly and under parts
20. The study had to run for another two months before they could start raking in any profit from Suprame
21. over it, carefully raking away the stitches with her front paw pulling away with her
22. pounding on the toys as they were going in for the kill, raking their claws over your
23. Was he raking leaves? I hope he finds it soon
24. � Heavy cannon and gun fire then erupted for a few seconds, before the second British craft did the same, also raking the starboard superstructures with gunfire
25. � The 4-inch guns and 20mm cannons of the 24 hovercrafts kept a steady fire in the meantime, raking the guards barracks from end to end
26. � Terrified of what would happen to her next, she slowly collapsed to her knees, sobs raking her
27. Her hands clawed out, raking at the crisp air
28. Despite the bullets still raking their car, Janet reacted swiftly, an adrenaline surge flowing through her body and partially negating the paralyzing fear that was gripping her
29. Page raking and the amount of active
30. Overpaid doctors are raking in small fortunes labeling kids bi-polar and ADHD, and then prescribing a variety of powerful drugs; as if parenting now comes in pill bottles
31. A Japanese machinegun then started raking the sandbagged positions occupied by the command group, shooting from the roof of a warehouse 300 meters away
32. Now instead of Noriega we have independent free-lancers rising up as powerful drug cartels, in direct competition of our own low-handed government, which continues the charade of enforcing anti-drug laws and eradicating illicit trade, while all the time, raking in billions of dollars in their own illegal trafficking endeavors
33. “He actually thinks that the more he wears that costume, the better he will become at being the ultimate Mysterieau character,” Suong said while casually yet seductively raking her right hand through her raven locks
34. away, raking a line in the earth with his foot as a reminder not to get too
35. He was raking leaves in the large courtyard outside the food
36. old man raking the creek
37. raking through acquaintances in her head she knew that there were no other female companions
38. He would have loved to have seen the look on the poor poker players’ faces when Charley and Henri started raking in the points and money from their game
39. yourself physically – mowing the lawn, raking leaves or shoveling
40. Raking the lawn – 345
41. Nightfall quickly opened a lead and Edgar scurried to keep up, but he lost his hastened grip on the sloping scrabble and slid down several yards, raking at the rock with fingers sorely lacking claws
42. The male immediately spotted his ploy and wheeled around on him, and Edgar yanked himself up on the vine to just barely avoid talons raking through just-vacated space
43. Still standing with his back to the counter, Ralf yanked out the butcher knife he’d fumbled from the drawer behind, clumsily raking the blade across his side and goring himself in the process
44. Must be raking it in hand over fist
45. He is Papa's younger brother, and spends his days in a bank, handing out and raking in money through a hole in a kind of cage
46. In spite of the bitter wind that was raking the churchyard every person who had been inside the church was waiting outside to see the pastor come out
47. It was just enough to throw them aside to avoid a huge paw coming up through the hatch, it's three inch long claws raking the floor where Barnes had been standing a moment before
48. Jason who had remained silent throughout got up and walked to another of the boulders nearby and began raking the dirt around the base with his hands
49. Under strong jets of cold water he lathered himself thoroughly, raking the cake of soap across and under his fingernails, and rubbed himself hard all over with a coarse hand towel
50. This caused it to emit a ghastly roar and rise up upon its hind feet; its huge front paws raking the air as its lips curled back in a vicious snarl, revealing horrific fangs