rake together

Rake together your fire, my dear, and serve it up piping hot for lunch.

Their sacks were slim, and with his own the three partners could rake together only two hundred dollars.

But remember-men fight to rake together money.

Every piece of scandal which could be raked together concerning Scaliger or his family is to be found there.

He threw down the fuel, then raked together the embers, blew them to life, fed the dancing flames.

The picture depicts four girls in the twilight collecting and raking together fallen leaves in a garden.

It rakes together heaps of sediment and then turns its cardiac stomach inside out and engulfs the mass.

Coming off guard in the small hours we used to rake together what was left of the cook-house fire and then stand in the red-hot embers.

It was to tell me that I was being sent to Lvov to fetch forty precious tanks, possibly the last the army could rake together.

Malcolm Warner argues that Millais was influenced by the poetry of Tennyson, at whose house he had once helped to rake together autumn leaves.

The rest of them I began to rake together with my free hand, crumpling some in my hurry to get them under my arm and under cover.

All rake together short essays, riffs and poems by writers who, rather too often, seem more affected by the singular wonders of their own beings than by external events.

Today's schoolchildren, though, might be confused by one character encountered on Bunyan's road to salvation: a man, the source of our word "muckraker," who is busy raking together a compost pile.

The young women wear their dower strung upon a strong wire that curves downward from the top of the head to the jaw - Turkish silver coins which they have raked together or inherited.

'It looks,' I went on, 'as if the best way would be to decide the thesis and the style and approach, and then rake together the bits out of old scripts that will suit it.

So I wanted to sample things, and be finding out what sort of reporter- material I might be able to rake together out of the sixth century when I should come to need it.

On a sign from the Indian Glenarvan took his place, while Thalcave went back into the inclosure and gathered up all the dried grass and ALFAFARES, and, indeed, all the combustibles he could rake together, and made a pile of them at the entrance.

I did not, but sat up shivering and tried to rake together a bed of leaves for myself that would keep me warm, or at least less cold, finding among them my slug gun and the clean bones and skulls of several small animals, instruments of divination in which I read my own fate.

Once salt crystals formed, they were broken apart and pushed to the edge of the cover and the crystallized salt was transferred to carts for transport to the State storage warehouses where it was raked together and placed into tubs with perforated bottoms drained for 14 days before being packed in barrels for the market.