23 Metaphors for stake

The stake was a considerable parcel of silver.

The stake was a common mode of punishment in India in former days, and, until recently, was practised among the Sikhs, Marhattas, and other Asiatic princes, who were independent of our government.

The stake for Russia is not merely the integrity of Servia: it is her prestige among the Slav peoples, of which she is head; and behind all lies the question whether South-Eastern Europe shall be under Teutonic control, and lost to Russian influence.

On the road, we passed within view of "the Briars," where the chief resided during the building of Longwood; and where he, "Whose game was kingdoms, and whose stakes were thrones!

When a wager is made the stakes are a hundred camels.

The story has no reason to flag where the stake of the grimelinage is the upraising of white-robed spirits.

The stake is not a few acres of land, but the freedom for which our fathers gave their lives.

C stake is 7-1/2 inches from B which is equal to sixty feet on the scale, that is sixty one-eighth inches.

In former days the stake or the gallows was the penalty.

Advised by the traitor Ganelon, Chariot challenged Alard to a game of chess, and insisted that the stakes should be the players' heads.

"But it is to be curved upstream and that stake is our center.

You must know that once at Whitehall I played at cartes with my lord Culpepper, and the stake on his part was one-sixth portion of that Virginian territory which is his freehold.

The stakes were half a plug of ship's tobacco.

Be earnest, earnest, earnest; mad, if thou wilt: Do what thou dost as if the stake were heaven, And that thy last deed ere the judgment-day.

" "I'll do just as you say," I responded, although it humiliated me to be put in the position of trying to beat any game, the stake of which was my husband's affections.

"The stake is the safety of this land, of which you are a notable citizen.

The stakes for which they played, although they gradually became in reality pretty heavy, were in his eyes a very unimportant consideration.

Instead of joining the panguingui where the stake is a half peso, I Ve gone only where it's a half real, enduring the bad smells and the dirty cards.

He must be always trying to get the better in something or other:that this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon a game at cards: that cards are a temporary illusion; in truth, a mere drama; for we do but play at being mightily concerned, where a few idle shillings are at stake, yet, during the illusion, we are as mightily concerned as those whose stake is crowns and kingdoms.

" "All right; what is your raise?" Desmond gave a lift and the sharp raised back, and so the play went on until the stake was a thousand dollars on the two hands, and the sharp said: "See here, young follow, five hundred is enough for you to lose.

"An Indian stake and a bloody head will be the end of all of you.

And so, wearily and little by little, but surely and steadily on the whole, was brought home to the young boy, for the first time, the meaning of his life: that it was no fool's or sluggard's paradise into which he had wandered by chance, but a battle-field ordained from of old, where there are no spectators, but the youngest must take his side, and the stakes are life and death.

"God knows I would do all a man might to aid Peter Sitz; but if he was here at this minute, knowin' that the stake was bein' made ready for him, he would say that we were bound to keep on toward the fort regardless of his fate.

23 Metaphors for  stake