mark just-eking-out-a-contribution-here Baileyeke 1 (k)
tr.v. eked, ek·ing, ekes
1. To supplement with great effort. Used with out: eked out an income by working two jobs.
2. To get with great effort or strain. Used with out: eke a bare existence from farming in an arid area.
3. To make (a supply) last by practicing strict economy. Used with out.
[Middle English eken, to increase, from Old English can; see aug- in Indo-European roots.]
eke 2 (k)
adv. Archaic
Also.
[Middle English, from Old English ac, c.]
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life, Make the most of it...
kb
Thanks for the extra quote, here's one more recent
mark eking-not-streaking- though-there'd-be-eeking-if-I-did Bailey
In fact, I was already obliged to increase my respirations to eke out of this cell the little oxygen it contained, when suddenly I was refreshed by a current of pure air, and perfumed with saline emanations.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules
mark eking-not-streaking- though-there'd-be-eeking-if-I-did Bailey
Today is the first day of the rest of your life, Make the most of it...
kb
Truth be told, I'm exhausted from so much fecking around.I thought we might be a bit fecked out, but apparently there's quite some feck left in PerryIt's best to eke with a good deal of feck.
mark eked-out-another-feck Bailey
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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Apparently the Eke Squad has peked.Truth be told, I'm exhausted from so much fecking around.I thought we might be a bit fecked out, but apparently there's quite some feck left in PerryIt's best to eke with a good deal of feck.
mark eked-out-another-feck Bailey
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Perhaps we should try for a trifeckta?Truth be told, I'm exhausted from so much fecking around.I thought we might be a bit fecked out, but apparently there's quite some feck left in PerryIt's best to eke with a good deal of feck.
mark eked-out-another-feck Bailey
--PW
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
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