No; his heart was bound up in his work only: that was the end for which his failing life was to be eked out by hers.
It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy, and it is evident that there was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible, in his character something outrageous, and in his fate not a little that was pathetic.
" In the meantime Jobs eked out a bohemian existence on the fringes of Reed.
Emerging markets ex-China eked out output growth of just 1.