To Brereton the whole affair was now as plain as a pikestaff.
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All this jumped with reason well, and was plainer than a pikestaff.
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The one at which the Tamburini presided was plain as a pikestaff.
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It was plain as a pikestaff that Katie was jealous of Dickie.
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There is only one road, and that is as clear as a pikestaff.
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Without minding it at all, the whole is as plain as a pikestaff.
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It is as plain as a pikestaff that you had too much to drink.
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It was as plain as a pikestaff that school was not really going to work out.
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Well, Ill admit, said Tuckerman with a smile, that its not as clear as a pikestaff.
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Good god, man, she's plain as a pikestaff with a wardrobe fresh out of the Salvation Army.
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The reason for America's present activist foreign policy is as plain as a pikestaff and is known to everybody.
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The case is as plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer it becomes.
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Stick your head through and hey presto, it looks to have been impaled on a pikestaff above York's royal gateway.
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But as someone who spent most of his adult life in policing, two issues are as plain as a pikestaff.
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It is as plain as a pikestaff that Sterling should be sold to the highest bidder as soon as possible.
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It is characteristic of thoughtful people that they don't understand some things that to others are as plain as a pikestaff.
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Why, you are as plain as a pikestaff, and as free-spoken as if you had no secrets in the world.
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Now there may be some at St. Blogs to whom it is plain as a pikestaff what the bishop needs to be doing.
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Skewered on a pikestaff high above the city, the silenced heads spoke eloquently of the fate awaiting those who dared plot against rulers of city and country.
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The judge will refrain from any references to his quill, or his gavel, or his pikestaff, and allow the defendant to be released to spread its insidious gospel.
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But after the battering that it has taken this week, it is as plain as a pikestaff that most observers will be lining up with the Department of Finance on this one.
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The attraction of pods for the makers is as plain as a pikestaff – they provide a steady source of income, like an insurance policy but without the possibility of having to pay out.
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Up he rose at the dawn of the next day, and, taking his stout pikestaff in his hand, he set forth upon his journey once more, as though he would make up for lost time.
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The community's arms might be described thus: Per pale, dexter argent a pikestaff issuant from base sable bladed azure and tasselled Or, sinister gules in chief a crown Or, in base a wheel spoked of six of the first. The pikestaff and the crown both refer to the Carolingian king's soldier-farmers (Wehrbauern) who settled the community. The community's overlords changed several times throughout its history, and several times it belonged to the Archbishopric of Mainz, ending up in Mainz's hands for good, or at least until the Old Empire's 1803 downfall, in 1720. The so-called Wheel of Mainz refers to this state.
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II, c.1 (private); 16 & 17 Car. II, c.6; E. Pawson, Transport and Economy: the turpike roaqds of 18th century England (Academic Press, London 1977), 77. The term turnpike refers the military practice of placing a pikestaff across a road to block and control passage.
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Redcap is depicted as "a short, thickset old man with long prominent teeth, skinny fingers armed with talons like eagles, large eyes of a fiery red colour, grisly hair streaming down his shoulders, iron boots, a pikestaff in his left hand, and a red cap on his head". When travellers take refuge in his lair, he flings huge stones at them and if he kills them, he soaks his cap in their blood, giving it a crimson hue. He is unaffected by human strength, but can be driven away by words of Scripture or by the brandishing of a crucifix, which cause him to utter a dismal yell and vanish in flames, leaving behind a large tooth.
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From the Tanya Grotter official site:Title list , Tanya Grotter official site (in Russian) #Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass (Таня Гроттер и магический контрабас) #Tanya Grotter and the Disappearing Floor (Таня Гроттер и исчезающий этаж) #Tanya Grotter and the Golden Leech (Таня Гроттер и Золотая Пиявка) #Tanya Grotter and the Throne of Drevnir (Таня Гроттер и трон Древнира) #Tanya Grotter and the Pikestaff of the Magi (Таня Гроттер и посох волхвов) #Tanya Grotter and the Hammer of Perun (Таня Гроттер и молот Перуна) #Tanya Grotter and the Pince-nez of Noah (Таня Гроттер и пенсне Ноя) #Tanya Grotter and the Boots of the Centaur (Таня Гроттер и ботинки кентавра) #Tanya Grotter and the Well of Poseidon (Таня Гроттер и колодец Посейдона) #Tanya Grotter and the Curl of Aphrodite (Таня Гроттер и локон Афродиты) #Tanya Grotter and the Pearl Ring (Таня Гроттер и перстень с жемчужиной) #Tanya Grotter and the Curse of the Necromage (Таня Гроттер и проклятье некромага) #Tanya Grotter and the Garrulous Sphinx (Таня Гроттер и болтливый сфинкс) #Tanya Grotter and the bird of Titans (Таня Гроттер и птица титанов) Spinoff titles: #Tanya Grotter and the Complete Tibidox! Phrases, Quotations and Aphorisms (Таня Гроттер и полный Тибидохс! Фразочки, цитатки и афоризмы) #Worlds of Tanya Grotter (Миры Тани Гроттер) - a compilation of fan-written graphic novels There are several other spin-offs from the Tanya Grotter series. The Methodius Buslaev (Мефодий Буслаев) series, featuring a young male magician, and the Hooligan fantasy (Хулиганское фэнтези) series: #Methodius Buslaev.
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