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There it was, however, as plain as a pikestaff, and with a feeling of lively interest I turned back towards the flat. Whoever Miss Vivien might be, I was determined to have a look at her. I felt that the girl whom Tommy would leave in charge of his more important correspondence must be distinctly worth looking at.
With them it is: "Every branch straight up on high! Close up to the trunk with you! There's nothing to stare at down below! Look above you! Heads up!... March!" And all the branches strut right up to the sky and the whole tree shoots up, straight and proud as a pikestaff. It's tiring. But it's elegant. And it pays.
Na, na, it reads plain as a pikestaff; ye pay elevenpence halfpenny and ye get a pound of tea and a glass of whisky. I count it handsome o' the Bailie; and if they didna say he was a teetotaler! It's awfu' how a man is abused."
"Hear, hear," cried the whole lot; an' Stumpie Mertin, gettin' a little excited, roared "Order," an' set them a' a-lauchin'. "Gentlemen," said Bandy again, "it's as plen's a pikestaff that a' oor municeepal affairs is clean gaen to the deevil a'thegither; an' I have much pleasure " "Hear, hear," said Watty Finlay, "he's the very man."
"It's extraordinary that anybody should send me a great bag of anything eatable," said Hugh. "Where did it come from?" said Fleda. "Philetus fetched it he found it down to Mr. Sampion's when he went with the sheep-skins." "How do you know it's for me?" said Hugh. "'Cause it's written on, as plain as a pikestaff. I guess it's a mistake though." "Why?" said Fleda; "and what is it?"
Kilshaw leant forward and answered, almost in a whisper, "Five hundred on Friday night," and in spite of himself he avoided the Superintendent's shrewd eye. But that officer's business was not to pass moral judgments. Law is one thing, morality another. "Then the thing's as plain as a pikestaff. This Gaspard got to know about the money, and murdered him to get it.
I begin to smell a mouse," said Will, sarcastically. "It's as plain as a pikestaff!" almost shouted Ted. "It's old Hand that ought to get the licking we were going to give you. But we'll have to pound you a little for his sake and your own too!" "No, Hutchings," said Will, after a moment's thought. "You deserve a licking, but we'll let you off. Only take warning.
And it was as plain as a pikestaff that he was here to lay down the political law to me. He would do it smilingly and patiently, but firmly. He would use all the leverage of his place, his power, his personal appearance, to crush the presumptuous uprising against his authority. I confess my spirits rose at the thought.
The manager of the factory spotted the fact that his office had been entered, and that certain garments had been purloined. The police were called in, and then the station-master gave information of our arrival, and of our boarding the train. It's as clear as a pikestaff. Hurrah! How we've nonplussed them!"
His nerves were so unstrung that he feared to go far lest he lose his way, and was even apprehensive of failing to find on his return the camp where his companion was awaiting him, although the path to it was plain as a pikestaff. Ned's meeting with Dick was a joyful one, for the boy was clearly better and his voice stronger, although his first words were: "Don't go away again, Neddy.
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