How To Use Pikestaff In A Sentence
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Stick your head through and hey presto, it looks to have been impaled on a pikestaff above York's royal gateway.
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The answer's as plain as a pikestaff they were made for each other.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Brian Boroo too) when will you acknowledge that two and two make four, and call a pikestaff a pikestaff?
The Book of Snobs
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This paper presents a new method of automatic detection on target from image captured by outdoor firing training system with complex background. All the images are picked up by a camera on pikestaff .
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It is plain as a pikestaff that if exposed to the incredulous view of the Taxpayer, who, by now, has a pretty clear view of some of the potential abuses, the floor of the House of Commons cellars would soon be awash with the blood of MPs caught with their grubby hands in the till.
'Shred & Bury': The New Westminster Watchword
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None of us worked it out, though it was as plain as a pikestaff when you thought about it.
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Most people with any sense of propriety whatsoever would think that his acceptance of this immodest pourboire for services rendered would immediately preclude him from holding the office of President of the EU Council on the basis that the conflict of interest would be plain as a pikestaff to all and sundry.
Blair's Thirty Pieces Of Silver?
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Stick your head through and hey presto, it looks to have been impaled on a pikestaff above York's royal gateway.
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The spin in such words as 'tarnish' and 'soften' is plain as a pikestaff.
The rumblings: will there be a quake?
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None of us worked it out, though it was as plain as a pikestaff when you thought about it.
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None of us worked it out, though it was as plain as a pikestaff when you thought about it.
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That, of course, was so much hooey, a fact that is now becoming plian as a pikestaff as we discover that the economy has not been tuned to withstand the hard times.
Vultures Gather: They Know and Await The End
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The judge will refrain from any references to his quill, or his gavel, or his pikestaff, and allow the defendant to be released to spread its insidious gospel.
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Not long afterwards it became plain as a pikestaff that the relevant government departments were still pushing ahead at full speed with plans to introduce a wider range of road-pricing schemes.
Is the Worm Turning?
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Another one is of a man with a pikestaff and a big plumed hat; probably painted around 1500–1520 and fairly certainly not religious.
Life in a medieval home
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Lee watched her mother's back - stiff as a pikestaff - the swirl of her coat, the erectness of her neck, and knew she was in trouble.
FAMILY BLESSINGS
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(for I make little doubt I am descended from Brian Boroo too) when will you acknowledge that two and two make four, and call a pikestaff a pikestaff? — that is the very best use you can make of the latter.
The Book of Snobs
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Skewered on a pikestaff high above the city, the silenced heads spoke eloquently of the fate awaiting those who dared plot against rulers of city and country.
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Another one is of a man with a pikestaff and a big plumed hat; probably painted around 1500–1520 and fairly certainly not religious.
Life in a medieval home
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It is already plain as a pikestaff that Cameron and Hague lack the stomach, the personal courage, moral fibre, honour and integrity to do anything about the EU Constitution if it has come into force by the time they get their hands on the driblets of power still left to a government in the United Kingdom.
Archive 2009-08-30
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Most people with any sense of propriety whatsoever would think that his acceptance of this immodest pourboire for services rendered would immediately preclude him from holding the office of President of the EU Council on the basis that the conflict of interest would be plain as a pikestaff to all and sundry.
Archive 2008-01-06
