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Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary
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rake
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{n} (not the gardening tool!)
synonyms: mulierose, voluptuary, epicurean, roue, sybarite,~reprobate ???
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Definition:a licentious man
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he has jolly times, has our friend. He's a bit of a rake. Monsieur Langlois told me—"
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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That sad little rake, the Prince of Wales, invited me to dinner.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: Lionizing (1835)
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Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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When a rake gambles away his expectations, the fact that it is an inconvenient debt doesn't make him the less liable.
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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The used-to-be sheriff sat rakishly astraddle his horse. His nonchalance was meant to convey his authority and power over even dumb animals.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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he went into the Aged's room with a clean white cloth, and tied the same under the old gentleman's chin, and propped him up, and put his nightcap on one side, and gave him quite a rakish air.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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