"It's as plain as a pikestaff that the jury acquitted Birchill because they believed Hill was guilty.

Then up got Little John, and, taking the bag of gold, which he thrust into his bosom, he strapped a girdle about his loins, took a stout pikestaff full seven feet long in his hand, and set forth upon his journey.

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.

There it was, however, as plain as a pikestaff, and with a feeling of lively interest I turned back towards the flat.

There's some rotten dirty work going on somewhere; that's as plain as a pikestaff.

And it was as plain as a pikestaff that he was here to lay down the political law to me.

pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast.

" "It's as plain as a pikestaff," agreed her husband.

If he will explain grace in any other way than as the circumstances 'ab extra' (which would be mere mockery and in direct contradiction to a score of texts), and yet without mystery, I will undertake for Dr. Hawker and Co. to make the new birth itself as plain as a pikestaff, or a whale's foal, or Sarah Robarts's rabbits.

"Why it's as plain as a pikestaff.

But Tom, having in his Hand a good Pikestaff, most valiantly defended himself like a Man, and to withstand the danger he thrust the Pike-end of his Staff into his Throat and so killed him.

Plain as a pikestaff.

"Plain as a pikestaff," answered Mr. Lindsey in his most confident manner.

There it was, about a mile away before and below us, as plain as a pikestaff,a silvery reach, like a long narrow lake, smooth as the floor of cloud seen from above among mountains, silent, motionless,for all the world like an immense, spectral looking-glass, set there in the half-darkened waste.

I stood by and saw the jet of water leap forth as big as a pikestaff.