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Updated: June 16, 2025
The party of boys walked along the road very pleasantly together, each one with his knapsack on his back and his pikestaff in his hand.
It was then that Mr Melmotte had offered him a seat at the Board of the Mexican railway. 'Of course he picked the lock, and stole the letter, said Dolly. 'It's as plain as a pikestaff. It's clear enough to hang any man. 'I am afraid that it falls short of evidence, however strong and just may be the suspicion induced, said the lawyer.
I put a curt question. "Are you sure you're quite right in your head, Rooum?" "Ah," he cried, "don't you think I just fancy it, my lad! Nothing so easy! I thought you guessed that other time, on the new road ... it's as plain as a pikestaff... no, no, no! I shall be telling you something about molecules one of these days!" We walked for a time in silence.
This I picked up, and, telling Alzura to throw me the pole, proceeded to investigate. "Is it all right?" he cried softly. "Yes," said I, and stood back while he jumped across. "Caramba!" said he, "that's a nasty bit well over!" and I noticed that his limbs trembled. "All's well that ends well," I replied. "Come on, my boy; we've done the worst part, and the track's as plain as a pikestaff now.
'You are a sensible little darling, and have done exactly what you ought to have done. 'I hope I have, I faltered. 'Hope? fiddle! stuff! the thing's as plain as a pikestaff. And in came Branston to say that dinner was served.
All this Arthur remembered now, and, carrying his mind a day or two further back, he recalled Mr Bickers's uninvited visit to the house Arthur had painful cause to remember it and Railsford's evident resentment of the intrusion, and the threatenings of slaughter which had been bandied about between the two houses ever since. "Why," said Arthur to himself, "it's as clear as a pikestaff.
Emily Inglethorpe It was handed to the jury who scrutinized it attentively. "I fear it does not help us much," said the Coroner, with a sigh. "There is no mention of any of the events of that afternoon." "Plain as a pikestaff to me," said Miss Howard shortly. "It shows clearly enough that my poor old friend had just found out she'd been made a fool of!"
"It is a strange thing," ruminated Kenelm, "that girls are not unpleasant to look at if you take them collectively, two or three bound up together; but if you detach any one of them from the bunch, the odds are that she is as plain as a pikestaff.
This happy thought had a good effect, for, although in the first and second years Father Gallon's people took prizes for gardens above the minimum limit in size, while his own two prizes fell to contestants not in his flock, yet only in the third year did it become to all of us quite as plain as a pikestaff that fifty square yards are only the one-fiftieth part of fifty yards square, and that whoever in Northampton had a dooryard at all had fifty square yards.
"Ah! my boy, there's no lion in the vley if the Bowkers have been here; and see, it's all plain as a pikestaff. They shot it here and skinned it there, and have dragged the carcass towards that bush; yes, here it is a lioness. They're back to camp by this time. Come, let's follow them." As they rode along, Hans, who had been glancing at the newspaper, turned suddenly to his companion.
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