To be "Burnt at the Stake" is to be tied to a piece of wood pounded in the ground (A "Stake") and to be lit on fire. Burning at the stake is is when someone is tied to a wooden stake and the stake is set on fire. You burn to death.
Give all your money to the church or they'd burn you at the stake
he died unexpectly but no one knows how
Tetzel threatened to burn Luther at the stake
William DID burn his boats, which meant that none of his men could retreat, which meant there was no going back.
While attending the Medieval Faire, I had 'Steak on a stake'! If I don't turn in my overdue homework today, the teacher will burn me at the stake!
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To be "Burnt at the Stake" is to be tied to a piece of wood pounded in the ground (A "Stake") and to be lit on fire. Burning at the stake is is when someone is tied to a wooden stake and the stake is set on fire. You burn to death.
The cast of The Stake - 1915 includes: William Garwood Violet Mersereau as Mary
We no longer find witches and burn them on the stake.
Give all your money to the church or they'd burn you at the stake
he died unexpectly but no one knows how
Tetzel threatened to burn Luther at the stake
William Wallace Allison Burn was born in 1891.
William Wallace Allison Burn died in 1915.
Joan had been found guilty in a rigged trial of heresy in an ecclesiastical court and the punishment for heresy was death by being burned at the stake.
David Burn died in 1875.