What is "unraked"

Usage examples of "unraked".

Now, its sooty remains must lie in the unraked ashes that drifted over the ruins of her home.

She made her way along the driveway, scuffing through the unraked autumn leaves.

After her mother died and was buried, her father forgot the mother and forgot the child and married the woman who used to rake the ashes, and that was why the child lived in the unraked ashes, and there was nobody to brush her hair, so it stuck out like a mat, nor to wipe the dirt off her scabbed face, and she had no heart to do it for herself, but she raked the ashes and slept beside the little cat and got the burned bits from the bottom of the pot to eat, scraping them out, squatting on the floor, by herself in front of the fire, not as if she were human, because she was still mourning.

The yard was as neglected as the rest of the property, the grass and bushes overgrown, the leaves unraked from the previous fall, which made the footing even trickier, especially since they were moving downhill.

Wet brown leaves, unraked since autumn, clung to the bottoms of her slippers.

It was the sound of her voice, or maybe the way she walked across the yard, rustling through the unraked leaves.

Baron, older in time, more vicious and less proud with his bastard Spanish-German head thrust back and upwards at the agony-carved rafters, more hot and princely and dog-like under his eyes and stripped arms, waited until precisely the proper moment when the eyes found their two-sided common target, when the arena drifted with unraked ashes, to slip to his knees and draw as in sleep a weapon from the debris.

I turned off the ignition and walked across the yard, through the dappled shade and the unraked leaves that had pooled in rain puddles and dried in serpentine lines.

Sticks and strings protect the newly seeded margins of the unraked gravel walks.

The piles of unraked leaves had frozen into stiff mats, and tree limbs hung dangerously low, burdened by the weight of the ice.