pike-staff

So saying, Madame de Reybert, nee de Corroy, stood erect as a pike-staff.

A Start in Life 2007

Hyperborean extraction swoop down on to our pond one morning, with many carloads of ungainly-looking farming tools — sleds, plows, drill-barrows, turf-knives, spades, saws, rakes, and each man was armed with a double-pointed pike-staff, such as is not described in the New – England Farmer or the Cultivator.

Walden 2004

He always walked with a sort of pole or pike-staff, considerably taller than himself.

The Black Dwarf 2004

Wessel took a dismantled pike-staff from the corner, and raising it to the high ceiling, dislodged a rough trap-door opening into a garret above.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

He leaned on a sort of hunting-spear, which across a theatre looked a slight, silvery wand, but which in the small and comparatively crowded room looked as plain as a pike-staff — and as menacing.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

He leaned on a sort of hunting-spear, which across a theatre looked a slight, silvery wand, but which in the small and comparatively crowded room looked as plain as a pike-staff — and as menacing.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

He reminded his listeners of Lord Beaconsfield's famous saying, and chuckled over the unfortunate woman, "plain as a pike-staff," who had become his benefactress, in consequence of a discreet allusion to the "power of beauty" and a well-placed sigh.

The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

For the first stroke of his pike-staff into the bottom of the pit hit upon something hard and resisting.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Nevertheless, being young and accustomed to danger, he managed, though much banged and buffeted about by the wind, to fend himself off the rocks with the long pike-staff belonging to the beggar, which Edie had left him for that purpose.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

It is as plain as a pike-staff that we are a nation of perfectly rabid idealists.

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday