| 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. |
| But as someone who spent most of his adult life in policing, two issues are as plain as a pikestaff. |
| 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. |
| It is as plain as a pikestaff that you had too much to drink. |
| Good god, man, she's plain as a pikestaff with a wardrobe fresh out of the Salvation Army. |
| 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. |
