Significados de was a stake em inglês

There was a stake driven near its summit with the initials, L.

My faith, it was a stake worth playing for.

There was a stake sticking out of his back.

To them a house meant much more than shelter; it was a stake in their new country.

A stake was a stake, and he wasn't about to allow overconfidence to lead to his demise.

Centered on the white tablecloth before the judges was a stake, which I guess was the vampire symbol of justice.

The breaks about Ethel might not be as good as he thought at first, but a thousand bucks was a stake.

He was neatly decked out-pun intended, I guess-in his dress Navy uniform, and there was a stake driven into his crotch.

One of his biggest recent winners was a stake in Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Inc, one of the world's largest fertilizer exporters.

And he had a hawss of his own. There was a stake driven down where an animal had been picketed for the night.

Another surprise purchase was a stake in Harris and Hoole, the coffee chain named after coffee-loving characters in Samuel Pepys' diary, for an undisclosed sum.

Indeed, one of its most notable investments was a stake in vitaminwater maker Glaceau, which was ultimately sold to Coca-Cola Co for $4 billion.

"I take it from that look that your local executioner was a stake-and-hammer man."

"This was a stake worth working fast for," Transley was saying, as he shook Y.D.'s hand.

"There was a stake handy, lucky for me," she said, "and I did beat him and beat him till the life was out of him.