In torture at the stake, and on the cross, by fire and by sword, they show forth an unshaken and undying faith.

they soon tired of his severities, sighed for their vanities back again, and at last burned the reformer at the stake.

But the German women and the few men still left in the capital realize that the national life itself is at stake and accept the inevitable losses of a successful military occupation.

He is quick-witted, prompt in action, enterprising in all things in which he has nothing to lose, but wary and cautious in all things in which he has a real stake, and ready to turn not only his hand, but his heart and his principles to any thing that offers an advantage.

No doubt up and down Wessex, thrashed and trodden out as the nation is by this time, there are other good men and true, who will neither cross the sea nor the Welsh marches nor make terms with the pagan; some sprinkling of men who will yet set life at stake, for faith in Christ and love of England.

If we refuse to die in the ranks against the German tyranny we can keep our faith by dying at the stake.

Each ditch was crossed by a bridge of planks, in the middle of which was a stake or short pole, round which we passed with ease, but which would obviously baffle a four-footed animal of any size.

You have played high, Don Camillo, and have lost a heavy stake.

There is too much at stake for me to conceal anything.

" "Then what's he here for?" retorted another man whose loss amounted to a few hundreds, but who was more excited and venomous than those who had many thousands at stake.

And all for a fancy, too, I'd stake my life!

That which being left undone, Your life lyes at the stake: let 'em be breathlesse, Both brat and mother.

They're a bad lot, you can guess that from the stake they threw at you.

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

" "Call Benares Brothers, the stake your partner hit me with, the stolen mail bag, nothing?" demanded Andy.

There was a good stake upon the table, for the sailors had tried on this last night to win their losses back from their passenger.

In another ten minutes they would all be under the guns of the Happy Delivery, and Sharkey would have won the greatest stake that ever a pirate played for yet.

Well, then, we will make up the hundred for the stake among us, and the fight standsalways supposin' the young man is willin'.

The latest of these ambitious souls comes from the Wilson coal-pits, which have undertaken to put up a stake of 100 pounds and back their local champion.

He had the well-curved nose and the widely opened eye which never yet were seen upon the face of a craven, and behind everything he had the driving force, which came from the knowledge that his whole career was at stake upon the contest.

They lunched together; a silent and rather nervous repast, for Montgomery's mind was full of what was before him, and Wilson had himself more money at stake than he cared to lose.

The takings, deducting expenses, were to go to the winner, and it was already evident that a larger stake than a hundred pounds was in question.

On the stake at one corner there hung a blue-and-white streamer.

" "Then you are fortunate," smiled Jean softly, "for I will stake my hope in the blessed hereafter that she has never done that to another man, M'seur.

Had it understood at last that its honour, its existence even, were at stake in this revolution, or was it only not up yet?

We had venison-steak, pork, ham, jerked venison stew, fresh trout, broiled partridge, cold roast duck, a fricassee of wood rabbits, and broiled pigeon upon our table, coming in courses, or piled up helter-skelter on great platters of birch bark, some on tin plates, and now and then a choice bit on a chip!

16.Swiss Steak.

Season a round steak with salt, black pepper and paprica; dredge with flour and let fry in hot lard on both sides until brown.

Chop and mince 1 pound of round steak, 1 onion and 2 sprigs of parsley.

And I'm going to fry us a little steak in this darling little skillet.

Not a word was said of the fire, but John kept serving him with large portions of the vegetables and the excellent and expensive steak which had been bought in his honor; and John's wife kept spurring him on.

"Give Merle another bit of the steak, Mother," urged Judge Penniman.

The Beef-Steak and October clubs are neither of them averse to eating and drinking, if we may form a judgment of them from their respective titles.

"How much is porterhouse steak?" she asked before she had the butcher cut any off.

"How much is round steak?" she inquired.

It did not look particularly tender and Migwan thought distressedly how her mother would complain when she found round steak instead of porterhouse.

"Isis there any way of making tough round steak tender?" she asked timidly, just a little ashamed to admit that they had to eat round steak.

"Isis there any way of making tough round steak tender?" she asked timidly, just a little ashamed to admit that they had to eat round steak.

Round steak prepared in this way is known in the restaurants as 'Dutch steak,' and commands a high price.

Round steak prepared in this way is known in the restaurants as 'Dutch steak,' and commands a high price.

" Considerably cheered by this last intelligence, Migwan sped home and got her prune dessert into the oven and then set to work transforming the tough steak into a tender morsel.

"Guess again," said Migwan gleefully; "it's round steak.

"I never got such round steak as this out here before.

" "And you never will, either," said Migwan, swelling with pride, "if you leave it to the butcher," and she told how she had treated the steak to produce the present result.

Mr. Whitelaw's notion of tea was a solid meal, which left him independent of the chances of supper, and yet open to do something in that way; in case any light kickshaw, such as liver and bacon, a boiled sheep's head, or a beef-steak pie, should present itself to his notice.

Marchmont's reasons for the selection were, first, that his client has never seen an old-fashioned London tavern, and second, that this is Wednesday and he, Marchmont, has a gluttonous affection for a really fine beef-steak pudding.

"I engaged this box," he continued, "so that we might be private if we wished to have a little preliminary chat; not that beef-steak pudding is a great help to conversation.

"Say how-de-do and be nice about it, or I'll see that your coffee is muddy and your bread burned and your steak absolutely impregnable; because I'm here to stay, mind you.

Ginger went straight off to bed, and the way he carried on when the landlady fried the steak afore bringing it up showed 'ow upset he was.

[Illustration: "The way he carried on when the landlady fried the steak showed 'ow upset he was."