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"Hope still!" said the doctor; "we are near you, and we will save you now, as we saved you from the tortures of the stake."

The leaping savages, the flickering firelight playing upon their painted bodies, circled about the victim at the stake.

I employed myself in planting my second rows of stakes or piles, and in this wicker-working all the summer or dry season, when another business took me up more time than it could be imagined I could spare.

I say this lest thou shouldst imagine that because we have been drubbed in this affray we have therefore suffered any indignity; for the arms those men carried, with which they pounded us, were nothing more than their stakes, and not one of them, so far as I remember, carried rapier, sword, or dagger."

JKL Partners has bid 427 billion won ($359.1 million) for a 58.5 percent stake in Lotte Insurance, which is estimated to be valued at 730 billion won.

New Delhi: The government will soon acquire the stake of Reserve Bank of India in housing finance regulator National Housing Bank (NHB), sources said.

A senior official confirmed that the department of disinvestment ( DoD) has plans to divest 5- 15- per cent government stake in these companies and has already floated a draft Cabinet note for the proposal.