My hands had only found movement at the end, when the wood stake plunged into me.

"Until they're dead, in the ground, with a wood stake through the heart, I'm going to worry about them."

A few hundred yards away the earth was scarred and discolored in large patches amid a grid created by wood stakes and cord.

The form boards are held in place around the edge of the excavation by driving wood stakes into the ground around the outside, then nailing these lightly to the boards.

They will balance a 10-foot-long carpenter's level against the wood stakes and measure the distance from it to the sand.

Inside the spike end of the device is a wood stake with a cardboard collar.

Mal followed Dudley up the steps of a Spanish manse fronted by a lawn display: Greek symbols sunk into the grass on wood stakes.

This complete model would be simple to make with scale planets taped to wood stakes or metal rods.

Ms. Allen accompanied a reporter past the long row of wood stakes that mark where an access road to the storage site would be built.