Wager says that A. made a bet with B. that he could cut a dime in two at one stroke of his pen-knife, C. to hold the stakes.

" "You'd give the shirt off your back, Blutch; that's why we can't ever have a nest-egg as long as you're playin' stakes.

It was by fits and starts that they even drank deeper or played for higher stakes.

But the stakes were swept into the arms and then the canvas bag of the winner.

With all these stakes to play for, Nelly outdid herself.

The stakes are high, and if on the one hand the game calls forth an immense amount of resource, skill, alertness, self-control, endurance, courage, and even tenderness, helpfulness, and fidelity; on the other hand, it is liable to let loose pretty bad passions of vindictiveness and cruelty, as well as to lead to an awful accumulation of mental and physical suffering and of actual material loss.

There fell a silence such as sometimes comes at a game of cards when the stakes at the table are running higher than is pleasant.

"But Beth is fortunately the sort of girl who can pull up stakes and move on at an hour's notice.

Shall we part stakes? RICH.

Could I meet him, I'd play [at] rob-thief, at least part stakes with him.

The fortunes of the players vary, and there are occasionalvery occasionalopen rumpuses; but the players and the stakes remain the same.

" The doctor was coolly helping himself from the said store, under the watchful eyes of its owner, and secretly exulting in his own judgment in requiring the stakes, when the maiden replied in great warmth, "Your ladyship forgets the two you lost to me at Mrs. Howard's.

Ropes strung along iron stakes driven into the ground kept curious visitors at a distance.

At midnight the show would pull up stakes at Centreville.

Through the door they passed, down a narrow lane walled with a dense bank of humanity, up a wooden ladder to a platform, over a rope which was slung waist-high from four corner-stakes, and then Montgomery realised that he was in that ring in which his immediate destiny was to be worked out.

We're playing for high stakes, Mr. Lyndon, and you" he paused"well, I'm inclined to think that you've the ace of trumps.

A few split bamboos are fastened into the ground, in a circle, and these ropes are then coiled round, in and out, between the stakes; this makes a huge circular vat-shaped repository, open at both ends; it is then lifted up and put on a platform coated with mud, and protected from rats and vermin by the pillars being placed on smooth, inverted earthen pots.

To the second line stakes were given, with orders to plant them so as to form a palisade; and the first line, when the chariots charged, retired behind the palisade, while the light troops advanced through the gaps and hurled missiles at the horses and drivers.

Trotting matches for large stakes were common; and the whole rural population appeared with expensive red silk umbrellas, which an enterprising English firm imported as likely to gratify the general taste for display.

In his mouth he had teeth like unto iron stakes, and one took me and threw me to this Worm which never ceased to eat; then immediately all the [other] beasts gathered together near him, and when he had filled his mouth

We then discovered that a large part of the town was formed of houseshuts would be more correctconstructed on sledges, huge runners of timber, into which had been driven stakes, forming the frame of the house.

The stakes were filled in with willow branches, and the walls were completed with mud, the whole being roofed with thatch.

(Holds up pack of cards.) Simon: Where's the stakes?

Women bound to raging bulls and dragged to death were not without the companionship of others who, in the evening, in Nero's garden, were coated with pitch, covered with tar, bound to stakes of pine, lighted with fire, and sent to run aflame with the hatred of Christianity.

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

Season venison steaks with salt, pepper and lemon-juice.

Teal, Mallard, Antelope Chops, Buffalo-Calf Steaks, Young Wild Turkey.

BEEF-STEAKS another Way.

Take your beef-steaks and beat them with the back of a knife, strow them over with a little pepper and salt, lay them on a grid-iron over a clear fire, turning 'em whilst enough; set your dish over a chafing-dish of coals, with a little brown gravy; chop an onion or Shalot as small as pulp, and put it amongst the gravy; (if your steaks be not over much done, gravy will come therefrom;) put it on a dish and shake it all together.

Take your beef-steaks and beat them with the back of a knife, strow them over with a little pepper and salt, lay them on a grid-iron over a clear fire, turning 'em whilst enough; set your dish over a chafing-dish of coals, with a little brown gravy; chop an onion or Shalot as small as pulp, and put it amongst the gravy; (if your steaks be not over much done, gravy will come therefrom;) put it on a dish and shake it all together.

To fry MUTTON STEAKS.

Two Side-dishes, Salt Fish and Beef-Steaks.

Two Side Dishes, minc'd Pies, Mutton Steaks, with Mushrooms and Balls.

Rump, to ragoo Collar'd to eat cold Dutch to make to pot Steaks to fry do.

Sufficient for a pudding. SAUCE ROBERT, for Steaks, &c. 515.

2. Rump,the finest part for steaks.

INGREDIENTS.6 oz. of flour, 2 eggs, not quite 1 pint of milk, salt to taste, 1-1/2 lb. of rump-steaks, 1 kidney, pepper and salt.

BEEF-STEAKS AND OYSTER SAUCE.

Have the steaks cut of an equal thickness, broil them over a very clear fire, turning them often, that the gravy may not escape.

Have the steaks cut from a rump that has hung a few days, that they may be tender, and be particular that every portion is perfectly sweet.

Cut the steaks into pieces about 3 inches long and 2 wide, allowing a small piece of fat to each piece of lean, and arrange the meat in layers in a pie-dish.

BEEF-STEAKS WITH FRIED POTATOES, or BIFTEK AUX POMMES-DE-TERRE (a la mode Francaise).

To have this dish in perfection, a portion of the fillet of the sirloin should be used, as the meat is generally so much more tender than that of the rump, and the steaks should be cut about 1/3 of an inch in thickness. Time.5 minutes to broil the steaks, and about the same time to fry the potatoes.

Sprinkle a little salt over the fire, put on the gridiron for a few minutes, to get thoroughly hot through; rub it with a piece of fresh, suet, to prevent the meat from sticking, and lay on the steaks, which should be cut of an equal thickness, about 3/4 of an inch, or rather thinner, and level them by beating them as little as possible with a rolling-pin.

The exact time for broiling steaks must be determined by taste, whether they are liked underdone or well done; more than from 8 to 10 minutes for a steak 3/4 inch in thickness, we think, would spoil and dry up the juices of the meat.

Where much gravy is liked, make it in the following manner:As soon as the steaks are done, dish them, pour a little boiling water into the frying-pan, add a seasoning of pepper and salt, a small piece of butter, and a tablespoonful of Harvey's sauce or mushroom ketchup.

Then passes before me the old Cock that crew over the doorway in Fleet Street, a Johnsonian tavern of mighty lineage and celebrity for chops and steaks.

What, in the name of wonder, does it concern us, whether these men sit among themselves, with mild or with sulky faces, eating their mutton steaks, and drinking their porter at Highgate, Hampstead, or Lisson Green?

Tarragon and Shalots with Steaks, 199, 368.

Meanwhile, hearing his wife was sick, he had brought her a couple pounds prime tea, and it occurred to him that venison steaks were a little out of the ordinary run of meat, and, as he had a quantity at home, he brought a couple.