"Rake in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hanging out a yard or more he's panting so hard to get back at you. That captain has heady ambitions under his hat, maybe like setting up here as a tinpot governor or something like. If he can discredit you, well, he probably thinks he's got a chance to rake in the full pot, and it's a big one. Get Johnny back on the Range, Hunt—put him to work, hard. Sweat that sour temper and whisky out of him. He used to be a promising youngster; now he's turning bronco ...
— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton
... and awhile thou must work for twain? O face, thou shalt lose yet more of thy fairness, be thinner no doubt, And be waxen white and worn by the day that he cometh out! Hand, how pale thou shalt be! how changed from the sunburnt hand That he kissed as it handled the rake in the noon ...
— The Pilgrims of Hope • William Morris
... who was the eldest son of Tresidder's "head man" and the worst rake in the parish. "Lev us go up ...
— The Birthright • Joseph Hocking
... to do that, for it is a very gentle thing and sweet in the learning. Some of you laugh at me, and say, Behold, this old-fashioned driveller, who does not even know that love is no longer in the fashion! By Saint Peter, Heaven will soon be out of the fashion too, and Messer Satanas will rake in the just and the unjust alike, so that he need no longer fast on Fridays, having a more savoury larder! And no doubt some of you will say that hell is really so antiquated that it should be put in the museum at the University of Rome, for a ...
— A Roman Singer • F. Marion Crawford
... Hang it on the teeth." He drew it up to him, then, rake in one hand and lantern in the other, proceeded to ...
— More Jonathan Papers • Elisabeth Woodbridge
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