If the upper stake didn't hold, both he and Clemdish would fall down to the cliff and the waiting sea.

A single stake held a dozen stacked barrels in place on the flat bed.

Subsequent stock sales reduced the stake in Rhodia then held by Aventis, to about 15 percent.

Besides, she was out of it now, such minor stakes held no interest for her.

The stake held his gaze and his mind.

Now imagine that everyone in the country set to retire in that same year had held an equal stake in the market.

The stakes hold more than parochial interest.

The breeze goes down, and the round stars shine, for the stake holds the fleshless bones in line.

But the other stakes held.

It tried to head back toward the river, but the last six stakes held, and it just struggled at the end of the lines.