pikestaff

Example Sentences

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It was now plain as a pikestaff that the Court can never be effectively packed.

From Time Magazine Archive

So pikestaff plain are the advantages of a sub-Channel railway that last week even that ruddy, insular, industrial squire, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, took up sturdy cudgels in its defense.

From Time Magazine Archive

In allowing his old favorite's downfall, Old Henry had made it pikestaff plain that Young Henry is now absolute boss.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was plain as a pikestaff that Japan's airmen had failed either to break Chinese morale at Nanking or to win mastery of the air over the capital.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had gone no more than a hundred yards before a man carrying a pikestaff and a bell and leading a mastiff on a leash stalked up to us.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood