They are doubtless better fed, better lodged, better clad, than they were say in the middle and end of last century, when not one in a hundred of them had shoes to his feet, when seven out of eight on the Continent were still bondsmen, and when three out of every four in England had to Eke out their wages by parochial relief.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The good fellow who is so popular at the Club today is found tomorrow trying to Eke out an existence selling books and life insurance to other good fellows.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
John Capgrave undertakes to translate the life of St. Gilbert "right as I find before me, save some additions will I put thereto which men of that order have told me, and Eke other things that shall fall to my mind in the writing which be pertinent to the matter."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos