His blotchy countenance, a trifle paler, was as impassive as before, although he had staked six thousand francs, the maximum allowed upon the simple chance.
They followed the two staked by the lame young man and his partner, and "R.
The newcomers had rushed into the hills and staked out their claims, some of them on the very fringe of the valley out of which the gold-bearing ledge rose.
We'll get our little slice and that is all, if you girls and the other folks that have staked claims hang on to your ownings.
Miss Cullam staked her claim and put up a notice next to Rebecca Frayne.
For some distance along the length of the ledge and toward what was believed to be the richer end, Flapjack and Min had staked out the claims.
The huts were erected by this time, and a blazing fire lighted; and I noticed that Clarice's tent had been carefully staked round by the sergeant, so that no wild beast could break suddenly into it.
Away he rushed towards the level prairie; perhaps he expected to find friends there, or had his horse staked in that direction, near some wood or copse.
We accordingly hobbled and staked our horses close at hand; and we then collected wood for our fire, and made down our beds with our saddles and horse-cloths.
A man whose life had been staked on the pursuit of prestige, in short, could take no chances in those days!
But he had staked everything upon the dream of happiness; and humor, by affording him an endless series of small assuagements, enabled him to maintain that equilibrium.
They remounted: very soon the silent night echoed the hoofs of a pursuing rider; and now commenced the most frantic race, in which each party rode as if the whole game of life were staked upon the issue.
In short, he staked off a hill claim in strict accordance with the local mining laws of Hurdy-Gurdy and put up the customary notice.
It was in the most thickly settled part of this interesting demesne that Mr. Jefferson Doman staked off his claim.
How Sir Asinus stakedhis garters against a pistole, and lost.
The mass of those, however, who formed the Scottish army were of very different mettle, and the battle in which they staked and lost everything was one of the fiercest in the whole of the great Civil War.
He would only fall in their esteem; they would despise him; and he would despise himself if he betrayed the idea on which he had staked so much, and the realisation of which he would have died to preserve.
Yuh reckon if I knowed where it was I wouldn't have staked it long ago?
He jumped at the evidence he had seen where Banker had staked a claim.
How often hestaked life's bright jewel on the chances of an hour?
We pitched our tent snugly by a copse of wood within a few yards of it; staked down our animals near at hand, and prepared, and ate in the usual form, our evening repast.
While some were cooking our morsel of supper, others staked out the animals, others pitched our tent; and all, when their tasks were done, huddled under its shelter.
If I left everything to luck, and staked without any care or consideration, I was sure to win--to win in the face of every recognized probability in favor of the bank.
The almost unanimous Southern vote for the hasty surrender of the line of 54° 40´, on which so much had been staked in the Presidential campaign, gave the Whigs an advantage in the popular canvass.
If menstaked large sums on questionable events, it was generally expected that they would pay, should their speculations prove unfortunate.
I staked it with a gambler's recklessness, and I have earned for myself the name that birth denied me.
She might have staked her oath, her life, or her reputation, on proving the assertion which she had made, and have failed to leave a permanent impression on his mind.
But when she staked not only her position in his service, but her pecuniary claims on him as well, she at once absorbed the ruling passion of his life in expectation of the result.
Everything is staked over there, and I've got to make another strike.
Well, then listen to this: I gave my word in the presence of the man who staked me for this trip, that I would never gamble again.
Reeves is the man who staked me for the trip into the barrens, and his wife is an old, old friend of mine.
The longer he looked at those irrefragable calculations, the more clearly did he recognise now that the Seer was right, and the System on which he had staked his all was a pure delusion.
Time and again, he staked and won; lost a little; won it back again.
He had staked a great deal on her, and he meant to be repaid with compound interest.
Again the cards were shuffled, cut, and dealt, and the "plucked pigeon" staked his last dollar upon them.
Those which the loser had staked were new, fresh from the press, he said, and they were sorted into a heap distinct from the rest.
It is said that this vice had the effect of encouraging robbery, for a gambler staked things not in his possession, pledging himself to steal the articles if the dice went against him.
Gambling, also, prevailed widely during the Muromachi epoch and was carried sometimes to great excesses, so that samurai actually staked their arms and armour on a cast of the dice.
Guess we've staked out a claim in Berkeley Square,' said Miss McCabe, 'an agreeable location.
Their cards were deposited at the claim staked out by Miss McCabe in Berkeley Square, and that young lady soon 'went everywhere,' and publicly confessed that she 'was having a real lovely time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "staked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
