It looks like the bear staked this out as his kill, so...
Rostov staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again lost.
It remained the fact that Mr Chamberlain staked an already established position on his refusal to compromise with his convictions on a question which appeared to him of vital and immediate importance.
They also counted nuts that fell into fixed quadrats staked into the ground.
The ash surface was staked off into square metres, and the substance carefully removed in order.
