We drive down a couple of rows of little stakes, plantin' the stakes close together, and leaving between the rows a space of six or eight inches.

There also is the sacred and beautiful Gomati which is adored by celestial Rishis and there also is the sacrificial region of the gods and the sacrificial stake of Surya.

He now came to Rollo's wigwam-ground, and took hold of the marker, and held it off as far from the middle stake as it would go, and then began to make a mark on the ground all around the middle stake.

Thirty yards into the coppice we found a man lying dead, with a sharp stake holding him to the ground, and a raw, red mass where had been once his head.

Two stout forked stakes, four or five feet apart and five feet high, were driven into the ground at each end, and then two poles ten feet long were stretched across over the fire, and smaller ones laid transversely on these a foot apart.

The palisade which ran round the camp was six feet high, made of logs lashed to upright stakes.

Here the local legislature was a democratic oligarchy, partly composed of landowners, but chiefly of overseers, with no permanent stake in the country.

The winner in each case taking P75, and the runner up P30, the remainder being divided amongst the most forward runners in the respective stakes.

I know 'twas here, for I mind me of that bit of wreck yonder, and that there was a tall stake drove in the sand just where yon stake stands.

He was the modern figure of Fate, playing for a desperate stake with cold and deadly earnestness.

There is a stake worth millions such as I am, and while I can stand at all I must stand by the cause.

"Then the mists rolled up and revealed what I at first took to be a walking R.E. dump, but secondly discovered to be a common ordinary domestic British steam-roller with 'LINCOLN URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL' in dirty white lettering upon its fuel box, a mountain of duck-boards stacked on the cab roof, railway sleepers, riveting stakes and odds and ends of lumber tied on all over it.

Down they went with him to the North Loch, and tied him there to an oaken stake about five feet deep in the watera spot where many a luckless Catholic had perished.

In the cotton and sugar region there is a fearful amount of this desperate gambling, in which, though money is the ostensible stake and forfeit, human life is the real one.

It was you who introduced me to this heartless libertineyou who encouraged me to play with him, telling me I should easily strip him of all he possessedyou who excited his passion for my wife, by praising her beautyand it was you who put it into his head to propose that fatal stake to me.

Fate slew him, but he did not drop; She felled he did not fall Impaled him on her fiercest stakes He neutralized them all.

In the waste of Barre a tower, surrounded by two or three fishermen's huts and as many camarines, has been erected against the Moros, who, untempted by the same, seldom go so far westward, for it consists only of an open hut covered with palm-leavesa kind of parasolsupported on stakes as thick as one's arm and fifteen feet high; and the two cannons belonging to it ought, for security, to be buried.

He had played for a mighty stake, and he had lost.

The defences of the camp consisted of a ditch, the earth from which was thrown inward, and of strong palisades of wooden stakes driven into the top of the earthwork so formed; the ditch was sometimes fifteen feet deep, and the vallum, or rampart, ten feet in height.

Impalement on charred stakes, finger-nails split off backwards, finger-joints chewed off, eyes burned outthese tortures can be mentioned, but there are others, equally normal and customary, which cannot even be hinted at, especially when women are the victims.

LAKE STAKE KING A beautiful variety of the bench-top lakes occurs just where the great lateral moraines of the main glaciers have been shoved forward in outswelling concentric rings by small residual tributary glaciers.

The larger planters generally removed only after somewhat thorough investigation and after procuring more or less acquiescence from their slaves; the smaller planters and farmers, with lighter stake in their homes and better opportunity to sell them, with lighter impedimenta for the journey, with less to lose by misadventure, and with poorer facilities for inquiry, responded more readily to the enticements.

The wretched inhabitants take refuge on the sand-hills, or in little huts, which they construct on the summits of lofty stakes, whose elevation is conformable to that of the highest tides.

Yes; outstretched in might From snow to palm, from sea to sea; But pledged to use its strength aright, And evermore to keep alight The torch of human liberty: Is this the Union that we see? Where history's Martyr dared to break The power that held a race in chains, I see the ghastly lynching-stake, Where brutal mobs their vengeance take,

Even Mr. Pallinson, obtuse as he was apt to be when called upon to comprehend any fact derogatory to his own self-esteem, was fain to confess to himself that this evening's efforts were futile, and that this dark-faced stranger was the favourite for those matrimonial stakes he had entered himself to run for.