were formerly buried ignominiously on the high-road, with a stake thrust through their body, and without Christian rites. (Chambers: Encyclopœdia, lx. p. 184, col. 1.)
“They buried Ben at four cross roads,
With a stake in his inside.”
Hood: Faithless Nelly Gray.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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