Word: stakingly
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...Bridge at men's clubs is always played for a stake...
...Britain, Conn., Harry Blews looked forward to 52 Sundays in church. He had bet his Sunday mornings for a year on Dempsey against the Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe, whose stake was a promise to buy at least five-cents worth of sweets for 365 days, in Blew's ice cream store...
Exclaimed Judge Weygandt: "This case is unique. More than the lives of the baby and the parents are at stake...
...With almost certain defeat staring Mr. Cosgrave in the face, the Governor General would certainly point out the advantages of taking the decisive step of forcing the parties into a new contest, now that the country is believed to be well aroused to the gravity of the issues at stake...
...elephant cage for her funeral; how John Quincy Adams, a Negro clown, got bathed with boiling tar. Sometimes the bully-boy stops punching to strew around some casual obscenities; sometimes he just reflects, idly, wistfully, comically. At all times his book is as close to life as a stake-driver's undershirt. Admirers of realism, and Americana, must roundly applaud...