单词 | to be, lie at or on the stake |
释义 | > as lemmasto be, lie at or on the stake ΚΠ 1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 5 So they vie and reuy till some tenne shillings bee on the stake. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 117 Haue you not set mine Honor at the stake, And baited it with all th' vnmuzled thoughts That tyrannous heart can think. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 14 I durst my Lord, to wager she is honest, Lay downe my soule at stake . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 150 My Honor's at the stake . View more context for this quotation 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII (1876) (modernized text) 34 He..saw plainly that his kingdom must again be put to the stake, and that he must fight for it. a1660 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) III. 9 All that is deere unto us and our posteritie is now at the last fatall stacke. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 56 Are not our Liberties, our Lives, The Lawes, Religion, and our Wives Enough at once to lye at stake? 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 11 My Brinded Heifar to the Stake I lay;..Now back your singing with an equal Stake. < as lemmas |
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