| 单词 | rake off |
| 例句 | Then I raked off the filling with my two front teeth, as I always did. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Do the promoters rake off loads of commission? Fancy owning a piece of film history? 2011-07-29T22:02:48Z But his consultant, External Affairs, a company run by a former Trump campaign official, raked off nearly $70,000 in “PAC strategy consulting” fees, more than half the total. Election denial was roasted by WA voters, but it still brings in the bucks 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Follow up by raking off the dislodged weeds. It’s peak frustration time in the garden, but you can get past it 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Gamblers know that when there’s a middleman — a racetrack, casino or sportsbook — the rake off is roughly 10 percent. Perspective | Sports gamblers are flocking to the stock market. Let’s hope they stay there. 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Later on while cleaning up, Doug raked off the wrappers - including the ring - into the empty candy bag and put it in the trash. Couple gets back lost ring after it fell into trash 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z It’s too preoccupied with raking off their earnings. Perspective | As Arike Ogunbowale dances with gusto, the NCAA sidesteps with cowardice 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Earlier this month opponents put up a sand sculpture at a beach festival—and someone raked off the three-dimensional letters telling residents to vote against. Take a Ride on the ‘Tide-tanic’: You’re Paying for It 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Daffodil drifts in the lawn can be mowed and the debris raked off; simply remove the withered leaves of smaller clumps in beds. It’s peak frustration time in the garden, but you can get past it 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Its violence is allowed and contained as big banks rake off billions in wandered funds. Police Sex Abuse Case Is Bad News for Mexico’s Leader 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Predatory contractors use Olympic deadlines to gouge, hike and rake off on building projects that become useless shells. Rio deserves better than what it’s gotten so far from these Olympics 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z And do also note that this isn’t the revenue flowing to the app developers: this is the rake off that the app stores themselves get, not what goes to the originators: Paid Apps Having A Bad Time, Almost All Revenue Is From In App Purchases In Free Apps 2013-12-30T15:05:00Z Lawns can be raked off and mulched with short manure, or rich garden earth where manure cannot be obtained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z I've just decided to rake off half the profits of all this town's cigar stores, except a few of the best ones, and stay right here to collect. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z "As for me, I care little if they rake off this old gray head, ten or eleven years sooner than I should die in the course of nature." Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z At first their flight was direct—a raking off—but in drawing nearer the doomed bird it changed to gyrations as they essayed to mount above it. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z When I first worked out it took five binders to follow a machine, one man to rake off, and one to carry the bundles together. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Their strategy for the next generation of personal technology is to control the ecosystem at every level, and to rake off a piece of all the financial transactions taking place there. Steve Jobs defends his PG-rated walled garden 2010-06-02T14:03:00Z Miss Flagg said it was a generous offer and raked off a sovereign for her commission. Aliens A boy drove the team and the man raked off the grain in sufficient quantities to make bundles. Rural Life and the Rural School The rascal knows all the time what to do, only he wants to make it seem hard, so he can get his little rake off. The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers It lay in pretty fall order, trim and clean; bushes pruned, canes tied up, vines laid down, leaves raked off; all the work done, up to the very day. A Red Wallflower In three or four days the heat will be up in the bed, and then it should be covered with six inches of fine garden mould, which should be raked off level. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings Rollo began to rake off the leaves with his fingers, and then sat down, and went to digging a hole in the sand. Rollo's Experiments "It would seem that the rich man's coach wheel has raked off a part of my hide, but it hasn't, my boy." Old Ebenezer And meantime the capitalists rake off the profits and are happy. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement From this the clover is raked off into bunches with a rake. Clovers and How to Grow Them Why didn't you rake off these dahlias as I told you to yesterday? The Heart's Kingdom After the fire had burned down into the log a way, the men raked off the hot coals. The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone Early in April this was raked off and the edges of the bed made straight, for the grass always grows in a little each year. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 How I could rake off the crows with it in plantin' time! Samantha at the World's Fair The coal should be carefully raked off the deck and in from the gangways; it should not be allowed to fall, as it is wasted and dangerous to people near the track. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads Ignorance, unfathomable ignorance, is at the bottom of much of it; if the Town Treasurer of Yuba Dam gets a $100 "rake off" on a paving contract, our city government is a failure. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I Cut down the brown grass and rake off all the weeds and rubbish, and finish by putting on a dressing of seaweed, or half-rotten stable manure. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Some mow and rake off and burn outside the bed, then with a two horse cultivator dig up the paths and cultivate and get the ground in condition. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 But it seems that the Shumans, on the side, owned The Star Company and raked off a big profit on the costumes that way. The Real Adventure Carefully raking off the ashes with a stick, he found plenty of coals beneath. The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne I looked back, and was nearly raked off by a bough. D'Ri and I I drove two yoke of cows to this machine, and Magnus raked off. Vandemark's Folly The mulching should be raked off in the spring, the ground lightly stirred with a fork and left to sweeten, and another mulching applied when the weather becomes hot and dry. Gardening for the Million To-day, as I was raking off my strawberry bed, Georgiana, whom I have not seen since the night when she satirized me, called from the window: "What are you going to plant this year?" A Kentucky Cardinal It was, he saw, necessary that he should explain the meaning of a "rake off," and he did so to his companion's entertainment. The Shuttle Tim contemplated it as well as he could in the dying light of day, and raked off the cobwebs with his hand. The Woodlanders But by industrious poking he got us now and again—cruel, scraping jabs with the end of the stick that raked off the hide and hair. Before Adam If it is mown frequently--say once or twice a week--in the periods of most vigorous growth, it will not be necessary to rake off the mowings. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Then their curiosity led them to rake off the earth in several places; but finding nothing underneath, but a heap of bones, they cried out with horror, Ah! what a Massacre! History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing She raked off at a great pace, as this one did just now; but in mid air she checked suddenly, heeled over, beat up against the wind, stooped and fell headlong at the shepherds. The Forest Lovers He played truant from the High School, sold his books, his cap with its badge, even his very scarf and pocket-handkerchief, to his school-fellows, and went raking off heaven knows where with the money. England, My England The lower ones see the higher ones raking off, and they rake off, too—down to conductors and brakemen. The Deluge If these borders are planted with shrubs, the leaves may be left there to decay, and not be raked off in the spring. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) In the room it was bitterly cold, for though the ashes had been raked off the coals no wood had been put on lest the smoke from the chimney should draw attention. The Duke of Stockbridge Keep these raked off ahead of where you are leveling the soil, which is accomplished with a backward-and-forward movement of the rake. Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use Spalding's bullet had grazed its belly, raking off the hair and graining the skin; mine had gone through its head. Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod About the middle of April, 1878, the coarsest part of this mulch was raked off the strawberry plants, and left in the spaces between the rows, the finer portion being left among the plants. Success with Small Fruits If this is spread evenly and not too thickly in November, and the coarser remains of it are raked off early in April, the results will be astonishing. The Home Acre When they are well dried, thresh with a flail, rake off the straw, sweep up the beans and clean by winnowing in the wind or with a fanning mill with suitable screens. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered If he only raked off half of what he spent he got back his own and a tidy fortune besides. Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress There is no true systematic tribute, tax, or “rake off” among the Bontoc Igorot, nor am I aware that such occurs at all commonly sporadically. The Bontoc Igorot The earth is raked off the plants in March or April, as soon as severe freezing weather is over; otherwise they would decay. Success with Small Fruits No such result need follow if the plants are cultivated in a single line, for then the manure can be raked off in early spring—first of April in our latitude—and the ground cultivated. The Home Acre I had my hand up—so," explained McKinstry, with heavy deliberation, "and the ball raked off my little finger after it went through my hat. Cressy Powder, well raked off, defined upon his cranium a nebulous half-circle, flanked by two pigeon-wings, divided by a little queue tied with a ribbon. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau The Bontoc area, however, has no “headman,” no “rich man,” and, consequently, no “rake off.” The Bontoc Igorot In the spring the coarsest of the covering is raked off, and between the rows is dug a space about a foot or eighteen inches wide, which serves as a path for the pickers. Success with Small Fruits After the frost is out, the earth settled, and the winter covering raked off, the soil under the spring sun grows hard, and by June is almost as solid as a roadbed. The Home Acre In the spring rake off the mulch, and as early as possible fork the ground over lightly, taking pains not to touch or wound the crowns of the plants. The Home Acre No man or set of men habitually spoils another’s accumulations by exacting from him a tax or “rake off.” The Bontoc Igorot However, tribute, tax, and “rake off” are all found in pure Malayan culture in the Archipelago, as among the Moros of the southern islands. The Bontoc Igorot |
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