"Pikestaff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a sailor!" said Johnny Liston mockingly. "Why, there it is, as plain as a pikestaff, on the lift of that wave to the right there! Where ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... addressed, bashful at finding himself the object of attention, swayed backward and forward with his pikestaff for a ...
— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... the pikestaff with which Blagge's men pushed me forth,'Mr Culpeper answered. 'I'll prove it. Why had the plague not broken out at the blacksmith's shop in Munday's Lane? Because, as I've shown you, forges and smithies belong naturally to Mars, and, for his honour's sake, Mars ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling
... there was only one of them. "Goodness; how you do fly about!" he would say ruefully to Dorothy, "An instant ago you were standing close beside me," or "How can you be here on the couch," he would say to Mabel, "when there you are as plain as a pikestaff ...
— Maida's Little Shop • Inez Haynes Irwin |
