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- ..[A] small but excellent tale of contemporary English society." - Kirkus Reviews, 07/15/1996 "Mostly, Mr. Cowan's prose is plain as a pikestaff, earnestly...4 KB (458 words) - 01:07, 26 May 2023
Singerman, R. (2009). Mummies in nineteenth century America: ancient Egyptians as artifacts. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co page 104 Peterson, H. D. (2008)....37 KB (1,176 words) - 12:03, 24 March 2024
the advancing figures of Miles Standish with pikestaff and sword and a Pilgrim (probably John Carver) with a blunderbuss, but it reminds us that by the...38 KB (3,826 words) - 19:28, 16 December 2023
three mullets Azure. Crest: A falcon Or supporting with the dexter claws a pilgrim's pikestaff connected by a chain Argent to a ring around the sinister...32 KB (327 words) - 14:27, 24 April 2024
- word "pikestaff" in this expression is a corruption of packstaff (“the staff used to carry a bundle over the shoulder”). plain as a pikestaff (not comparable)
- there you are—what is the result for Germany—why the thing’s as plain as a pikestaff—in fact you’re driven to it by the sheer logic of the situation—there
- not meddle with them. Without minding it at all, the whole is as plain as a pikestaff. William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets (1818), p. 74 Spenser's
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