pikestaff

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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

It was pikestaff plain that Adolf Hitler wanted all Europe to hear about and be frightened by his mobilization.

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

He heard the “tramp, tramp” of the sentry and the thudding of the pikestaff as it struck the stone when the sentry turned at the wall of the house.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli