pikes'-lengths

Updated: June 15, 2025

At the sound the soldiers on the other side raised a fierce huzza, and the whole air was full of clamour. Our musqueteers had been brought to the very edge of the Bussex Rhine, and the Royal troops had also advanced as far as they were able, so that there were not five pikes'-lengths between the lines.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke: His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph,: Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734