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- society." - Kirkus Reviews, 07/15/1996 "Mostly, Mr. Cowan's prose is plain as a pikestaff, earnestly fixed on the physical world. But his minimalism is not...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
- 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 leg also Argent...32 KB (327 words) - 14:27, 24 April 2024
- tender presence guarded by the advancing figures of Miles Standish with pikestaff and sword and a Pilgrim (probably John Carver) with a blunderbuss, but...38 KB (3,826 words) - 19:28, 16 December 2023
- 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)
- dost demur?" "Ferishtah like those simpletons—at loss In what is plain as pikestaff? Pish! Suppose The trustful son had sighed 'So much the worse! Returning
- 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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