Brian Boroo too) when will you acknowledge that two and two make four, and call a pikestaff a pikestaff?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
It's as plain as a pikestaff that it was nothing but. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
And it was plain as a pikestaff that they hadn't any. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
"It's as plain as a pikestaff," growled Mortimer Shelton. From Wordnik.com. [Adrien Leroy] Reference
She was a lovely little a as a pikestaff but with a huge heart that was. From Wordnik.com. [two women]
A white shirt tied by the sleeves to a pikestaff made a fair white flag. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
The spin in such words as 'tarnish' and 'soften' is plain as a pikestaff. From Wordnik.com. [The rumblings: will there be a quake?] Reference
Durwald inclined his head in the aristocrat's direction, then stood pikestaff-straight. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
The Catholic army this afternoon was an intoxicated man in a green sweater with a pikestaff. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloomsday Dead] Reference
We had imitations; apologies for puddings, plain -- and hard -- as a pikestaff, were everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
The thing was plain as a pikestaff; for omitting a limit of liability this chap had got his commission!. From Wordnik.com. [The White Monkey] Reference
As if to make that pikestaff-plain, one of the sim infants lay beside her on a bed of grass and leaves. From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
The enormity of the idea -- for it was as plain as a pikestaff in an instant -- was beyond reasonable comment. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Flash]
Enclosed was an atrociously-written letter to her mother from her plain-as-a-pikestaff brother, written from Harrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference
She was positive that she looked as plain as a pikestaff, unconscious of the fact that she had never looked so pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Damsel In Green]
Pestryakov — though they accounted for every step they took and it was as plain as a pikestaff-an unexpected fact turned up. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Punishment] Reference
It is plain as a pikestaff that in order to bring on the Great War of conquest for which her rulers thought The Day had arrived. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
This very fact which was to them (and is to me) as plain as a pikestaff, is the very fact that has been specially diluted or denied. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
It is plain as a pikestaff how it came to be made. From Wordnik.com. [The Talleyrand Maxim] Reference
"It's as plain as a pikestaff," said Mr. Critchlow. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Why, even I saw joy coming as plain as a pikestaff. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference
"It's as plain as a pikestaff!" almost shouted Ted. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage] Reference
"Plain as a pikestaff to me," said Miss Howard shortly. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Affair at Styles] Reference
This speech showed me everything as plain as a pikestaff. From Wordnik.com. [A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta] Reference
Oh! I see it now as plain as a pikestaff, 'observed Sponge. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference
'Hope? fiddle! stuff! the thing's as plain as a pikestaff.'. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh] Reference
To Brereton the whole affair was now as plain as a pikestaff. From Wordnik.com. [The Borough Treasurer] Reference
The case was as plain as a pikestaff, gossipers said in court. From Wordnik.com. [What's Bred in the Bone] Reference
The whole matther's plain as a pikestaff an 'clear as the day. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
I have got to get out of here; that is plain as a pikestaff!. From Wordnik.com. [Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas] Reference
Without minding it at all, the whole is as plain as a pikestaff. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
"Well, child, you are a fool -- that's as plain as a pikestaff; but --". From Wordnik.com. [The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)] Reference
"It's plain as a pikestaff, if you'll excuse me," Mr. Rogers answered her. From Wordnik.com. [Poison Island] Reference
Not that there's anything to enquire about, for it's all as plain as a pikestaff. From Wordnik.com. [Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig] Reference
"It's all as clear as a pikestaff," he observed, when he heard what I had got to say. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler] Reference
The plain pikestaff is your style, morally speaking -- if any one knows what a pikestaff is. From Wordnik.com. [The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete] Reference
Fleet, but, as I constantly tell our General Staff, my course is as clear to me as a pikestaff. From Wordnik.com. [Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2] Reference
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