"Not if you staked your all on the success of my marriage.
Again I staked the whole sum, and again the red turned up.
Why, it's the hottest thing that ever crossed the Staked Plains since the Apaches came down in---"
Slowly he took out his money bags, and slowly extracted 300 francs in gold, which he staked on the black, and won.
He would have liked to be able to feel that, at the time at least, he had staked something more on it, and had somehow, in the sequel, had a more palpable loss to show.
His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's brink, which led away toward a small round hut in the distance. The ground was trodden into a deep groove beneath the loosely drawn rawhide rope.