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Everyone was intensely relieved, especially Lord Kitchener, for he had realized better than our politicians the desperate stakes we had planked down in our gamble with the Clerk of the Weather.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Hamilton, Ian, Sir

Quick as a flash, the head man was into the tin grub box and had planked on a cake of butter.

From The Canadian Commonwealth by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

In the next race she had planked twenty sovereigns on an outsider, and raked in over a hundred pounds.

From The Four Faces A Mystery by Le Queux, William