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• Each had a small ax in the foreangle of his saddle, and a pike about fourteen feet long, the weapon with which he charged;
• During the earlier part of this period, the long pike disappeared from the shoe, but in the later part it returned in greater longitude than ever.
• Thus the statute of Edward the Fourth, which forbade the fine gentlemen of those times, under the degree of a lord, to wear pikes upon their shoes or boots of more than two inches in length, was a law that savoured of oppression, because, however ridiculous the fashion might appear, the restraining of it by pecuniary penalties would serve no purpose of common utility.
• She sprang into the air and jack-knifed into a clumsy pike before following her hands into the water.
• Guo and Wu took a big lead after the second dive, a back dive in pike position, which the judges awarded three perfect tens for synchronization.
• Don't pike on me like you did last time!
• —But Camus piked out, said Carole. Sartre and that lot got pissed off with him, he stood off from the war, he wouldn′t oppose it.
• Holman accepted the challenge while Norton ‘piked out’; nevertheless Holman won Cootamundra against a strong candidate.
• If they didn′t go ahead, it would look like they had piked, backed down.
• The pike of Teneriffe how high it is? 70 miles? or 50, as Patricius holds? or 9, as Snellius demonstrates in his Eratosthenes?