"By the way, what did he want to see you about?" It spiked the guns of Landis for the time being, at least.

When Colonel Manning, who commanded the fort, called for volunteers, few came, and these not as friends but as enemies, for they spiked the cannon in front of the statehouse.

But to urge on that account that we should spike away the peaceful foreigner, would be a view of international relations not in the long-run favourable to the interests of our fellow-countrymen; for we are at least equal to the races we call obtrusive in the disposition to settle wherever money is to be made and cheaply idle living to be found.

This is appropriate, as most Germans are linguists, and like to "spike the French.

"You spiked my only chance to dance with Miss Meade.

A railroad spike four and three-quarters inches long, and otherwise well proportioned, had penetrated full length.

I passed my blade through and through my assailant, almost at the same moment that the Prince spiked his man so directly in the throat, so that the red point stood out in the hollow of his neck behind.

They had spiked poles to beat the water and it seemed impossible that their victim could get past.

The gentlest devil ever spiked Lost Souls Into Hell-mouth,for nothing-by-the-day!