These bets were freely takenby obligin' stake-holders.

Stake men, wagon men, cooks, hostlers, candy butchers, came flying from every direction.

The friends of both sides drew their stake money, and the Umpire, drawin' a long breath, declared the match a draw game.

This was a big undertaking, and many people thought it would never be accomplished; the successful aeronaut had to travel more than three miles in one direction, round the Eiffel Tower as a racing yacht rounds a stake-boat, and return to the starting point, all within thirty minutesi.e., almost seven miles in two directions in half an hour.

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He makes a loud noise that sounds like chopping wood with an axe or driving a stake in the ground with a mallet; so he is called the Stake-driver by some people, while others name him Thunder-pumper and Bog-bull.

From the stake-driving of the engineers to the spike-driving of the track-layers was a full decade.

Lee's headquarters consisted of about seven or eight pole-tents, pitched with their backs to a stake fence, upon a piece of ground so rocky that it was unpleasant to ride over it, its only recommendation being a little stream of good water which flowed close by the general's tent.

Gazing about, he saw the cause of the mishapan iron trail stake half concealed by a drift, now red with his blood.

But what stake hast thou now?

But the water splashing above my ankles and a scream from Euphemia made me drop the line, which immediately spun out to its full length, making the stake creak and move in the sand.

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.

"Why, that must mean the stake yonder; that must be the mark."

It often happened that the executioner, in order to shorten the sufferings of the condemned, whilst he prepared the pile, placed a large and pointed iron bar amongst the faggots and opposite the stake breast high, so that, directly the fire was lighted, the bar was quickly pushed against the victim, giving a mortal blow to the unfortunate wretch, who would otherwise have been slowly devoured by the flames.

He also discovered the "Northeast Corner of the Crazy Horse Lode" plainly marked on the white surface of a pine stake braced upright in a pile of rocks.

Pit-falls, stake-nets, and springes do not kill.

"Through havin' that tip, he got there in time to stake number three Below Discovery.

Oliver collected his chips, relieved, and put all but one back in his stake pocket.

If, with a surveying instrument, you put in on a piece of ground a lot of stakes, each one of which is exactly the same height above sea levelthat is, run a line of levelsthen make a map showing the locution of the stakes, a line drawn on the map through all the stake positions is a contour and shows the position of all points of that particular height.

Rob noticed, as he swung a trifle wide of the stake raft, that it seemed to be the intention of Jack Curtiss, who was at the wheel, to swing the hydroplane round the sharp angle of the course inside of the Flying Fish.

The third horse strained at his stake rope, but did not break it.

in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake Scatter my ashesstrew them in the air: Lord!

As he returned with a stake splinter he observed that Luke had uncovered and set down the cage, which was a rude wooden affair.

"You see them two or three stakes stickin' up in the water?" remarked Mr. Gow suddenly, pointing away towards the right-hand bank.

" "They are willing enough to listen, and will sit looking as stupid as a school of white whales, caught in a stake trap," replied Katherine.