Why, that's where I shall thrash Bay Regent," said Bertie serenely, as if the winning of the stakes had been forecast in his horoscope.
After five rounds had been contested, the police stopped hostilities, and Rackaby's party declining to resume the fight, the stakes were awarded to Mace.
On September 16th Melton won the St. Leger Stakesat Doncaster by six lengths.
All along the beach prowled the gaunt dogs which belonged to the Eskimos, and yet other young dogs were tied to stakes so that they might not escape.
Continue until every pair ofstakes has been turned down and worked into the border.
Next cut seventeen eleven-inch stakes and push one in beside each stake already used.
To do this, the stakes marking the centres of the columns had to be removed, and it was therefore necessary to adopt some method of finding those centres again with precision.
Two small stakes were then driven under the notches in the short arms of the square, and nails were driven into them through the notches.
In one of 1732, at Hawsted, the tenant was to keep the hedges in repair, being allowed bushes and stakes for so doing.
William of Malmesbury praised the vines and wine of Gloucestershire; and says that the vine was either allowed to trail on the ground, or trained to small stakesfixed to each plant.
The deflector of this kiva is exceptional, being the only known instance where this structure is constructed of upright stakes bound with twigs or cedar bark and plastered with adobe.
Then, some inches beyond this furthest point, other stakes were drawn in rude outline of the form of a man.
The whole Territory is divided into twenty stakes or districts, each of which is presided over by a high-priest.
Of twenty-seven 'Stakes of Zion,' twenty have presidents born under the Stars and Stripes, and a large majority are of New England parentage.
In both kinds the wires should be wound around the stakes and stapled and passed loosely from one stake to the next.
Sod revetments, stakes with brush behind them, stakes with planks, boards, or poles behind them and a common form seen in the trenches in Europe chicken wire with brush or canvas behind it.
The wires must be drawn tight, and securely fastened, and the stakes fairly close together, so that if the wire is cut between any two stakes the remainder will not be cut loose.
The low wire entanglement= has stakes averaging 18 inches above the ground and the wire is horizontal only.
The distance between the stakes should be several times the height of the stake above the ground.
A wire entanglement= is composed of stakes driven in the ground and connected by wire, barbed is the best, passing horizontally or diagonally, or both.
Brace ropes when used, are then secured to stakes or pins suitably placed.
The stakes are roughly in rectangular or quincunx order, but slight irregularities, both of position and height should be introduced.
In order to provide facilities for rapidly mounting from the trench to charge, sortie steps and stakes have been provided in some trenches as shown in (Fig.
In the =high entanglement= the stakes average 4 feet from the ground, and the wiring is horizontal and diagonal, Fig.
If shallow, the difficulty of fording may be increased by irregular holes or ditches dug before the water comes up or by driving stakes or making entanglements.
Games of poker were played in the quarters evenings, at which the stakes were gold dust measured out in thimblefuls.
It soon became widely distributed through poker playing and it was no uncommon thing to find games for large stakes going on in the tents at night.
The skipper, while engaged in the search, reported having found a number of spiked stakes planted in the jungle, similar to the ranjows of the Dyaks.
I saw some more of the same kind of stakes which were already old, but there was not one near every house.
The only signs of man's presence discovered, however, were rows of stakes set up across the creeks in the mangroves.
Can we not diminish the stakes without abandoning them altogether?
Limed twigs must be placed on the stones or stakes where these birds rest, or even on sticks fixed in the ground for the purpose, and they must be driven gently towards the snares.
Spring-traps or gins must be suspended to small stakes or cabbage stalks.
These were thestakes Japan was betting on the twenty-first century.
He'd realized Jack could be blackmailed, if the stakes were his constituents' jobs and lives.
He threw for life or death, a coronet or a coffin; and he cannot now be permitted, with justice to the country, to draw stakesbecause the dice have gone against him.
Hence on the page of his field note book Tom wrote the distance between the stakesas nine chains and forty-four and seven-tenths links.
Ten stakes were thus covered, and not only were the foresights and backsights read and recorded, but the distance between each pair of stakes was measured with the chain and the distances entered on the record.
The difference between these two readings was six feet and one inch, showing that, for the distance between first and second stakes the rise in the hillside was six feet one inch.
In several spots along the top of the eastern side of the gorge (we were now on the western) might be seenstakes of wood driven into the earth.
Strong cords of grape vine were attached to the stakes still remaining on the hill, and it was evident that such cords had also been attached to each of the other stakes.
Presently we saw a large body go off into the hills, whence they returned in a short time, carrying stakes of wood.
Lockwood won at first and doubled the stakes at every game, until Dave, seeing that his pocket-money was running short, and the candle fast wasting in the breezes, concluded to sweep in the stakes with his favorite trick.
George Lockwood exposed the cheat at the very instant, and put the stakes in his pocket.
What the young man plays is often a child's game of pitch and toss, cross or pile, heads or tails, for stakes of fearful magnitude.
The stakes were so high--the pearls on the one hand--starvation and shame on the other.
Then when the enemies saw that the Spaniards were binding them and beginning to roast them, about a hundred men who were in the tent began to struggle and defend themselves with what there was there and with the stakes they could seize.
As he had been ordered by the general not to take them alive, but to make an example of them so that the other natives would fear the Spaniards, he ordered 200 stakes to be prepared at once to burn them alive.
Before filling in the concrete, strips of wood having straight edges on top must be nailed to the stakes on both sides of the walk, as I showed you on the blackboard in Fig.
The long stretch between the two stakes would not allow the cord to be tight enough to make a straight line between the two points, but Fred left it as it was, to be adjusted when his father came.
When the stakes were all in place, Nick made holes deep enough to take in the posts so that their tops measured just two feet and two inches above the level of the ground.
Lines for a foundation were set out, andstakes driven in the ground at the corners, alongside the cement walk and pier.
The spots for the tables were chosen, measured off, and small stakes driven into the ground to show where the posts were to be placed.
The strips for the stakes were prepared, nailed on, and properly adjusted, and then it was time to commence the real work.
If we know what any person really finds desirable, what he stakes his happiness upon, we can read his nature.
It stakes its case upon the importance for social welfare of the exceptionally gifted few.
The stakes or chunks, are arranged so as to form the sides of the pen and the sides are placed about six or seven inches apart, the tree forming the back of the pen.
I would make some splits in the log with my axe, drive in a few stakesand weave evergreen boughs among the stakes, roofing the pen with boughs.
Now drive down a couple of stakes on each side of the trap, so as to leave only a narrow passage; cover the trap with leaves or moss.
Narrow down the passage to about eight inches, by driving a few old stakes on each side of the trap.
It is the custom among the Indian trappers to make the trap pen of green wood, splitting it and placing the stakes so that the split side will be inward.
Good hard-wood stakes should be provided and they should be about fifteen inches long, unless the ground is very soft, in which case they should be longer.
The most common method for trapping the fisher is by setting a trap in a pen of stakes or a natural enclosure, the same as recommended for marten, but the pen should be larger.
Our first stock cars were flat cars and when we got an order for a stock car we would take a flat car to the shop and put stakes and slats on in order to hold the stock while in transit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bank; pool; pot; prize; stake; tiger
