"All you ladies like a rake: you PRAISE sober fellows like me; but what you PREFER is a Rake."
As they were rustling into their places, Mrs. Little said to Dick, with a delicious air of indifference, "ARE you a rake, Mr. Raby?"
"I am anything you like," replied the shameless fellow. All the old plate was out, and blazing in the light of candles innumerable. There was one vacant chair. Dick asked if there was anybody expected. "Not much," said Raby dryly. "That is Sir Richard's chair, on these occasions.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》
"Rake is my horse," she answered--"the big black one. The man took him again;" and she ripped out a few more oaths and unchaste expressions, threatening what she would do for the man in question; the which delighted him more than ever. "Rake is my horse," she ended. "None else shall ride him."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
When the seeds were in the trenches they had to be covered up, and Margery really helped at that. It is fun to do it. You stand beside the little trench and walk backward, and as you walk you hoe the loose earth back over the seeds; the same dirt that was hoed up you pull back again. Then you rake very gently over the surface, with the back of a rake, to even it all off. Margery liked it, because now the garden began to look LIKE a garden.英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
"Thou dost, alas! so shortly thine office,* *duty Thou rakel* Night! that God, maker of kind, *rash, hasty Thee for thy haste and thine unkinde vice, So fast ay to our hemisphere bind, That never more under the ground thou wind;* *turn, revolve For through thy rakel hieing* out of Troy *hasting Have I forgone* thus hastily my joy!" *lost英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
But Gentleman Harry knew how to tell a simple story, and the book, `all wrote by myself while under sentence of death,' is his best performance. In action he had many faults, for, if he was a highwayman among rakes, he was but a rake among highwaymen.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
THE cave had been their hiding-place as children; it was a secret refuge now against hunger or darkness when they were hunting in the woods. The primitive meal was finished; ashes were raked over the red coals; the slice of bacon and the little bag of meal were hung high against the rock wall; and the two stepped from the cavern into a thicket of rhododendrons.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
'Cause I miss Rake every day. just as my beautiful wife, Lara, misses her heroic brother Dean.美剧 · 《Billions》
I still don't know anything about you, except that you rake in remarkably straight lines.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》