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1. There was the large pike by the flowering current"
2. They quartered his corpse, fed it to the dogs, and left his head on a pike outside Smyrna’s northern wall
3. The General Pike was the twenty-forth ship captured by the Shenandoah since it began its sea voyage
4. In short order, the officers and men were transferred over to the General Pike for their passage back home
5. whaleships, General Pike and the Nile, arrived in San Francisco on August 1 and 2 respectively, causing another round of
6. Martha once told me that Tommy had gone up to Pike Hill House to live and farm when he was in his early twenties
7. “Why, I asked him only the other week if he missed being out at Pike Hill House with only hisself to please
8. I was tired out with biking up to Pike Hill House but at least I knew I could roll downhill most of the way home
9. “Why I did what I did next I’ll never know,” Maggie told Martha, “But I drove up to Pike Hill Farm (as they call it now)
10. She played a stanza of Sweet Betsy from Pike and they all had a hoot
11. The others used pike men and the crossbow
12. The Frances commander placed his four thousand infantry including about sixteen hundred pike men in his center, and split his lancers, a heavy cavalry, about three hundred on each flank
13. The latter decided he would retake Napoles, but on the way, his Suizo pike men refused to fight until they were paid
14. parade the head of a Bastille defender on a pike, he was disgusted
15. Pike was fascinated by the idea of a one-world government and ultimately became the head of this conspiracy
16. 1859 and 1871, Pike worked out a military blueprint for three world wars and various revolutions throughout the world which he considered would forward the conspiracy to its final stage in the 20th century
17. Pike foretold all this in a statement he made to Mazzini in Paradise Lost_____________________________ 95
18. Pike stated that after World War III is ended, those who will aspire to undisputed world-domination will provoke the
19. Boatswain Mate Second Class Jonah Pike described the patrols and his appreciation of the effectiveness of the fast RBS (Response Boat-Small) Homeland Security Boats, equipped with machine gun mounts, that the station received
20. Frank was in the middle of yet another drill with the pike
21. The pike was a long heavy pole with a combination spear-point and ax on the end
22. With that the Sergeant snatched Nelson's pike and thrust it at the tall man
23. ” Timmy raised his pike a foot higher than the men around him
24. Frank held his pike with both hands and jabbed at a long wormy-looking thing
25. Frank held his pike sticking out directly in front of himself
26. Frank pulled his pike loose with a wet plop
27. He did not seem to have a pike, but was attempting to fight off the three hssswwx with a sword
28. Frank rammed his pike into the nearest hssswwx at about midsection
29. Go trade it in for a pike
30. Frank quickly collected his meager backpack and his pike
31. That pike was by far the most valuable thing he had
32. And lean your pike with the others, there isn't room for that in the tent
33. He grasped his pike and spurred his horse
34. Not exactly your standard Army pike, but maybe they were trying to practice up ahead of time
35. “John, it's called a pike
36. Here came a man carrying what was probably supposed to be a pike
37. A crudely fashioned pike, it was
38. The messenger was regular Army riding on a horse, but the 449th volunteer infantry was a bunch of farmers trying to hold their pike like it was a pitchfork
39. He jabbed one with his pike, but he had no chance
40. Frank had just started to add his pike to the tepee of pikes
41. He immediately grabbed back his pike, set the butt end on the ground and pointed the pointy end at the mob of hssswwx that was thundering down onto them
42. So he held his pike at an angle and waited for it to come to him
43. He had his battered pike and half a canteen of water
44. He laid his pike on the ground and unbuckled the stiff leather belt that held the sword and scabbard
45. He carries his throwing spears and pike with him as he slowly, awkwardly, hobbles up to the practice mound
46. He takes up his satchel of four throwing spears and his pike and limps away into the night with the aid of his crutch, thinking he may never return, but knowing deep in his heart that he must
47. Galluk barely has time to react, and by the time he raises his pike and prepares to stab the beast, his pike is snapped in two as easily as a small twig
48. The physical education teacher there, a Mister Pike was more of a Rugby man and made no secret of the fact that he did not like Soccer at all
49. They did not follow the wood trail but the Captain took them on a shortcut that intersected the lane near where it emerged on the main pike
50. As he went down the corridor, a figure came hobbling up it, a bent, surly old man, stooping under the weight of his pike and a lantern he bore in one hand
1. These were called head spades, boarding knives, blubber pikes,
2. A sea of pikes and spears rose to the south above walls of horses and men in conical steel helmets and breastplates
3. The trench was filled with sharpened pikes made from wood
4. The trees had willing donated the pikes and the flammable sap, in order to win this fight
5. The pit was armed with sharp wooden pikes, waiting to greet the unsuspecting beasts
6. The ancient weapons consisted only of spears, swords, pikes or bows and arrows
7. Alexander’s men had pikes twenty-feet long, which could penetrate three rows deep into the Persian phalanx
8. They carried the very tall halberds or pikes much like the Suizos, but they also had some men in the front rank of their formation that were armed with a very long two-handed sword
9. The upraised pikes started to smolder before burst-
10. the soldier’s pikes to burst into flames
11. imum speed of dive, they released their pikes aimed at
12. watched for the pikes to explode in flames, or for the
13. lance), rejones (pikes used when riding), and rapiers; set the horns of a bull on fire; bomb a bull with darts to kill it off later with a shotgun; use greyhounds for races and
14. 1 About the same time Antiochus prepared his second voyage into Egypt: 2 And then it happened that through all the city for the space almost of forty days there were seen horsemen running in the air in cloth of gold and armed with lances like a band of soldiers 3 And troops of horsemen in array encountering and running one against another with shaking of shields and multitude of pikes and drawing of swords and casting of darts and glittering of golden ornaments and harness of all sorts
15. Sergeant Pain was berating Dick yet again, and they could talk a bit as long as they kept up the drill with their pikes
16. The pikes were very sharp
17. I think it's the broken-off tip of one of our pikes, but the fact remains that they are using metal
18. The men set their pikes and charged 'edkar last'
19. Frank had just started to add his pike to the tepee of pikes
20. A great roar came from the men as they pointed their pikes at the threat and waited for the assault
21. The beasts worked together to pull down a watch tower as one of their number was skewered by a group of soldiers bearing long pikes
22. The determined humanoids bore a variety of weapons ranging from lances and pikes to crossbows and short swords
23. "Burganets and pikes, you dogs! Stand to your ranks!"
24. The hillmen held the ridges, and the mercenaries, gripping their dipping pikes, bracing their feet in the bloody earth, held the Pass
25. Their pikes jangled against each other as they thrust shut the gate, chin on shoulder, and Conan asked testily: 'Have you never seen a headless body before?'
26. Ther streets of Tamar swarmed with howling mobs, shaking fists and rusty pikes
27. In the streets the fighting milled and eddied, plumed helmets and steel caps tossed among the tousled heads and then vanished; swords hacked madly in a heaving forest of pikes, and over all rose the roar of the mob, shouts of acclaim mingling with screams of blood-lust and howls of agony
28. Atop the palisade fence, men patrolled armed with rifles, bows and pikes
29. But even sorcery is aided by pikes and swords
30. guards surrounding them with swords and pikes hemming them
31. Go get pikes and lances there, then cut the heads of those executed here and plant them on pikes along the outer moat
32. The two large canvas tents, with the campfire between them, were up and solidly fixed to the ground by stakes when Nancy and Michel came back, two big pikes in their basket fishnets
33. He was being guarded by two soldiers with pikes that looked more ceremonial than threatening
34. The heads on pikes above London Bridge added to his gloom
35. Robin saw the heads of the two Gascoignes struck off and impaled on pikes
36. The pikes were not long enough, and the wielders showed
37. Fireballs and steel pikes cruised toward the castle
38. Many of the pikemen abandoned the unwieldy pikes
39. pikes; their lifeless bodies were trampled on by the relentless
40. prepared; a hedge of bristling steel-tipped pikes awaited the
41. On reaching the top he saw at the foot of it over two hundred men, as it seemed to him, armed with weapons of various sorts, lances, crossbows, partisans, halberds, and pikes, and a few muskets and a great many bucklers
42. Pikes clash on cuirasses
43. At the moment, Ohlarn’s garrisoned by only four regiments of militia, mostly still armed with arbalests and pikes
44. And while I don’t plan to be playing ‘The Pikes of Kolstyr’ on the way up, I tend to doubt many of my men will be remembering Langhorne’s injunctions about mercy and compassion once we get to the top
45. Many carried bowie knives in their boots and bore in their hands long thick poles with iron-pointed tips known as “Joe Brown pikes
46. Some Men were equipp’d with Boarding Pikes to cut thro’ the Enemy’s Rigging (as well as their Nets and Bulwarks), others hurl’d Stinkpotts at the Prey—homemade Crocks of Sulphur with a horrible Smell—or homemade Grenades of Pistol Shot and old Iron
47. I’ course, he tells Dame Catherine how her fathur’s goold runs into his pocket, and her fathur’s son gallops down t’ broad road, while he flees afore to oppen t’ pikes!” Now, Miss Linton, Joseph is an old rascal, but no liar; and, if his account of Heathcliff’s conduct be true, you would never think of desiring such a husband, would you?’
48. bread thief; il lansquine, it rains, a striking, ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: it rains halberds
49. hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes
50. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving were to be heard there