How To Use Pike In A Sentence

My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills. Thor's Day
Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) would make a decision on whether to boost output to calm minister said on Tuesday he sees no push by OPEC members to raise oil output to counter a spike in prices to 18-month highs. WN.com - Business News
Other situations affecting power quality are transients or spikes, surges or over-voltages, noise and sags or brownouts.
Sur le coup j'me suis dit "pouaaaaaah le cauchemar!!!" en plus yen a une qui m'avait piké ma place reservé! Pinku-tk Diary Entry

Painter and decorator Geoffrey Jenks was so shocked when he failed a roadside breath test, he felt his Cokes must have been spiked, Kennet magistrates in Devizes heard on Tuesday.
Everything from tobacco sacks and cigarette papers to a spare cinch and a rope, from a change of clothes to a picture of his family or his girl, from old letters and reading material to a marlinespike, was kept in it. This Calder Range
A big Chinaman, remarkably evil-looking, with his head swathed in a yellow silk handkerchief and face badly pock-marked, planted a pike-pole on the White and Yellow
A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex.
The power has gone out and even when it's on there appear to be beefy dips and surges on the line - so large in fact that one particular voltage spike took out my TV in an impressive cloud of smoke.
Bosses announced the company was consolidating three offices into a new building on the Turnpike Business Park.
What makes these native arums so attractive are the thick spikes of fruits that follow the large white papery inflorescences.
He had spoken of being inspired by Sheffield's John and Sheila Sherwood winning medals in the Mexico Olympics, of joining their club and of being given his first pair of spikes by Sheila.
He thought the highs and lows of the business cycle would be far more extreme and short-lived than in the past, with sharp spikes up and down.
On the River Darent, in Kent - which as recently as 1996 used to dry up in places during the summer, stranding and killing fish and other aquatic life - the amount taken from the river has been cut by 35m litres a day compared with 20 years ago, increasing river flows and so enabling much greater numbers of brown trout, pike and other fish to live in its waters. Rivers the healthiest in a generation due to stricter pollution controls
Agricultural yields were improving and the development of turnpike roads and canals later in the century enabled food to be transported more quickly to areas of shortage.
And, if you're illuminating things away from the house, like your trees, get some outdoor floodlight holders that you can spike right into the ground.
And they're highly versatile: You can make deviled eggs for appetizers, spike them in eggnog or make quiches, frittatas, omelets or other brunch-type party fare.
Yet now he is dead, as dead as any ordinary pikeman who fought to hold back the Horde at the terminus of the Salmisti Bridge. Kingdoms of Light
The slender, spikey fish is regarded as having one of the sturdiest and most flexible forms of animal armour.
Some of the fish had very pointed spikes on their backs and are commonly called suttle-backs. Times, Sunday Times
Heavy forged gate, with 20 mm square verticals, fullered spiked tops and circles captured by collars.
Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate. Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
I also saw a large tree and obtained specimens of it, belonging to the natural order BIGNONIACEAE, with terminal spikes of yellow flowers, and rough cordate leaves; and a proteaceous plant with long compound racemes of white flowers, and deeply cut leaves, resembling a tree with true pinnate leaves. Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
The re-enactments by members of the English Civil War Society will feature musketeers, pikemen and cavalry, with the occasional cannon shot.
There I have caught bream, roach, rudd, tench, perch, pike, and gudgeon.
‘Sorry,’ I winced, as he wandered back into the room, his hair beginning to stick up in bizarre tufty spikes.
The alligator garpike cannot really be recommended as an aquarium fish because of its size.
Racemes many, fascicled or panicled, glume I of sessile spikelets glabrous and pitted. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
I was struck by a number of interesting points about this spiked-debate so far.
We stopped there so the farrier could make calked sandals with spikes for the horses to wear on the icy roads of the mountains. Wildfire
It is full of fells and pikes, dales and thwaites, all old Viking words which are preserved here but not used widely elsewhere.
Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories. Tintin & Co.
In the bigger waters, maskalonge and, of course, any amount of pike and pickerel. The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa
Steel can be cast into bars, strips, sheets, nails, spikes, wire, rods or pipes as needed by the end user.
There are parties with spiked eggnog and trees adorned with colors and stars and angels.
Spikelets are small, 1-flowered, binate, one sessile and the other pedicelled, the sessile spikelet is bisexual and the pedicelled is female and rarely bisexual; sessile spikelets are deciduous with the contiguous joint of the rachis and the pedicel. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
It did not contain any circuitry to limit damaging electrical spikes, so it is quite unsuitable for use with a computer.
We have several deer mounts ranging in size from spike (first recurve kill) to a large 3 x 4 blacktail. Buck Mounts: Finding Room For Taxidermy
Maize, millet, and sorghum push thorugh the soil with spikelike tips which aid emergence. Chapter 8
Buds in the axils of the bracts expanded and repeated the pattern; each had a prophyll that remained in the bract axil, a long internode, then a succession of leaves with shorter internodes and a terminal spikelet.
Although you might see a spike in traffic where a darknet is operating, you won't be able to see inside the encrypted packets.
The Squamscott River Wetlands Component boasts four rare plants: the marsh elder, the stout bulrush, the small spike-rush and the exserted knotweed. Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
Hi Mercedes - they are similar to pancakes but are usually a lot smaller - pikelet is a common British term. Sugar High Friday #32
Carved on the lobstick of the Landing were many names famous in the annals of this region, Pike, Maltern, McKinley, Munn, Tyrrel among them. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
On the stiff soil the trees were ironbark, box, apple, gum, and some large acacias, with long lanceolate phyllodia, and large spikes of golden coloured flowers. Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
Malgre tout, apres avoir raccroché je tremblais de partout, j'avais pu de jambes et mes yeux se sont mis a piker et la fatigue s'est alors abattu sur moi! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
The nearest distraction is probably the Concord Turnpike, a half mile north of the pond.
Two kernels per spike were collected for determination of dry weight and moisture content.
ELLIS HIXOM, with charge to meet him at such a river though the Master knew well the Captain's toothpike: yet by reason of his admonition and caveat [warning] given him at parting, he (though he bewrayed no sign of distrusting the Cimaroon) yet stood as amazed, lest something had befallen our Captain otherwise than well. Sir Francis Drake Revived
The end result recalls the heady absurdism of Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) spiked with Eastern antagonisms. Not for the Faint of Heart
Turn your tail up to me, and I'll pull you through hindforemost, and then you won't stick in the spikes. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
-- Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know, I speak this in _hunger_ for bread, and not in _thirst_ for _revenge_. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
Early Saturday afternoon they went fishing to catch some bass and pike for the cookout.
You always need secrets to barter with, the more important the secrets the safer you are, because you never know when you or an underling or overling will make the mistake that leaves you as naked and as helpless as a spiked butterfly. Noble House
The click of a persimmon driver striking one of those soft balata balls and the sound of steel spikes clattering across the parking lot were heavenly.
Over the last two decades, predictions about the social effects of the Internet have ranged from cybernetic anarchy (both utopian and distopian) to the instantiation of a fascistic regime of surveillance that would make Orwell look like a piker. Discourse.net: I'll Be Speaking in London on Nov. 17
Her spiked bracers glint in the dim torchlight and her silver chaukrum reflect the light onto the walls.
It is a good time to talk about the welfare of our pike and zander stocks.
I think that the First Ave streetcar is a good idea and if built could connect Seattle center to Pike place and much else. Put The Grid Back Through Seattle Center « PubliCola
The main courses are dominated by marine and freshwater fish, including the ubiquitous pike; or else game - rabbit, pheasant and duck.
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“Turn your tail up to me, and I’ll pull you through hindforemost, and then you won’t stick in the spikes.” The Water Babies
During a radio interview, Mr Waters said the newspaper spiked his column on the grounds the article was libellous and inaccurate.
By 2002, she was living with Tim Montgomery, a relationship which began after she had lost her spikes in Oslo and he lent her his.
Gonzales tumbled well on floor, showing a double layout, Arabian double front, full-in, and whip to double pike.
Stems from twelve to fifteen inches high; leaves lyrate, the terminal lobe round; flowers small, in erect, loose, terminal spikes, or groups; the seeds are small, wrinkled, of a grayish color, and retain their vitality three years. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
'As before the pike will fly' in which Coeur-de-Lion's discomfiture of the 'septemvirate of quacks' is hymned; and the finale is quite Attic. Gryll Grange
Maybe you should re-spike your studs to your silt, because they were wobbly in the first place.
If you use gels, heavy creams or pomades to slick or spike your hair, adding a drop or two of your favorite essential oil (like lavender, jasmine, rosemary, sage or ylang-ylang) can counter some of the drying effects of such products.
Over the wall, the path gently falls to a col with the rock face of Side Pike ahead.
And just this week, it was announced that supplies are dwindling and prices are expected to spike as weather warms.
Boynet, whom I mentioned above, is accoutered with the coiffure called piked horns, which, if there were any signs in The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
And a sharp spike in interest rates would hurt some homeowners who have just got their foot on the housing ladder.
Mr. Pike looked at me ponderingly, and waited until the Elsinore had fairly righted for an instant ere he took his departure down the hall. CHAPTER XXIX
The reins were secured by chain-work, and the front-stall of the bridle was a steel plate, with apertures for the eyes and nostrils, having in the midst a short, sharp pike, projecting from the forehead of the horse like the horn of the fabulous unicorn. The Talisman
Ben is the setter who thinks of the game as chess, Chon is the spiker who goes for the kill. Savages
You can make deviled eggs for appetizers, spike them in eggnog or make quiches, frittatas, omelets or other brunch-type party fare.
From early summer on, stiff yellow stems are topped with purple spikelets.
The propagules of these predominantly arctic/alpine grasses consist of indeterminate spikelets, which revert to vegetative growth before dehiscing from the parent plant.
They were taking railroad spikes off a train trestle.
Be prepared instead for some rather more unusual ways of adorning nature such as spikes for hedges and fences, and decorative chokers and collars for branches or you could even crown the bean poles with a conical finial pot.
Northern California golf clubs increasingly are joining the plastic-spikes-only bandwagon, but the legal implications are not lost on some.
The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs or lesser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to the tall pines thereof, yet, nevertheless, are not altogether so soft to encounter as the plumage of a goose. A Legend of Montrose
Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal Ferrari FF: Sort of cool, sort of not One of the more endearing acts of journalism I've seen was William Safire's occasional "On Language" mea culpa, a column in which the famed word maven would admit to errors and misjudgments—throwing himself on the pikes of the punctilious, as he might say. A Showroom of Regrets: What I Got Wrong in 2011
The pasta was served in a cream sauce spiked with black pepper.
And they're highly versatile: You can make deviled eggs for appetizers, spike them in eggnog or make quiches, frittatas, omelets or other brunch-type party fare.
Many operators have moved beyond the standard coffee-based drinks to include cutting edge drinks like chai latte and reborn traditionals like hot toddies, spiked cider and mulled wines.
Once, she said, as she stood in shallow water in her high-necked, skirted, black bathing suit, a long-nosed garpike swam across her toes and startled her.
Toronto-based broker Brockhouse Cooper reckons a spike in oil prices to $130 a barrel would lower U.S. industrial-production growth from roughly 5% annually to about 4%. Dollar's Haven Allure Slips on the Oil Patch
Walk across your floor in poorly maintained shoes with heeltaps, spike heels or with any sharp object protruding from your shoe.
He likens it to a marriage, spiked with petulant tiffs, where affection has cooled into mutual respect and where the partners are increasingly living apart together.
I'm sometimes asked if I'd be frightened of walking through a jungle and being spiked by a thorn.
His hair was a chocolate brown colour with a few blonde streaks through it, spiked up slightly.
Below, the stream tumbles noisily into a large pit broken by an enormous spike of rock.
Allied to the perches is the pike-perch, of which two species are of some importance to the angler, one the wall-eye of eastern Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Hoping to avoid delays and embarrassing publicity, in July the council started quietly pressuring Pike to disengage from the venture.
The busty waitress serving them winked flirtatiously at Spike, bending in just the right way to show off her trim waist and ample bosom.
It also had a tail adorned by a pincer with spikes on the inside of the mandibles.
The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
He did not for a moment think she might return by the shunpike, for that was a rough road, not fit for a bicycle. The Captain's Toll-Gate
I am also going to look in detail at the approach I take to my pike fishing and the tackle and rigs that I use.
The female flowers can be distinguished by long, silky hairs at the bases of the flower spikelets.
Look out for Lepidium, a short herb with lacy spikes of pale pink flowers and rows of tiny oval seedpods.
Someone once told me that peroxide punky stripes on spiked hair was cool.
Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?
As she quietly awaited the next move, she slipped her hands over her shoulders, unhasping her magnificent chain, with the poison-infused spikes.
We shall see how the drumsticks pan out and there is still the pink and white astilbe behind the muhly just beginning to send up spikes. Simply (Purple) Sensational « Fairegarden
Then she gave him Donal's school-slate, with a sklet-pike, and said, "Noo, mak a muckle A, cratur. Sir Gibbie
Owen points to a spike in the amount of methane detected by the instruments, after the probe had landed.
And, as if the moment couldn't turn any more unfortunate, one of these shadow spikes struck the car's fuel tank, rupturing it and causing the yellow cab to explode into shrapnel and into flames.
He raised the pole above his head, drove the spike into a log at his feet, shinnied up the pole, and to a chorus of cheers, bowed as he stood upon the far side, triumphant.
There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping.
BTW, Zach, though many many many Asian people will argue, I think the best cart for tripe is on … E. Pike? Downtown Lunch: Jury Duty Tripe (and More) | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC
Take blue cohosh root, four ounces; lady's-slipper root and spikenard root, of each one ounce; sassafras bark (of root) and clover, of each half an ounce. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
Lantern clocks originally ran on woven ropes, which were threaded over spikes on ratchet wheels.
We want to give a wider audience easier access to more of the sort of ideas spiked has been producing since it became the first custom-built online current affairs publication in the UK.
They were trained by handspikes with the aid of side-tackle and their recoil was limited by a stout rope, called the breeching, the ends of which were secured to the sides of the ship. Marvels of Modern Science
The bright red stool that sat closest to the register and the threateningly sharp check spike was the least used.
She got badly spiked when one of the runners trod on her heel.
I'd go into a trap for a pikelet," said Wally, warming to his task. Captain Jim
A diversity of masculine subjectivities is mobilized around and through Spike as he comes to terms with challenges to his power.
If we can tear down a block of historical buildings in Hong Kong and replace them with the 'skysore' like the Lippo Centre in less than a year why does it take eons to gentrify a bit of the turnpike? Jeff DeGraff: The Innovation Do-Over List
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Spikelets less compressed, linear or linear-oblong; lateral nerves less prominent; not fascicled, long pedicellate and divaricate when ripe. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The people of the territories are denied the power to form State governments unless they consent to fasten upon them the slave-hopple, the iron wristlet, and the neck-spike. Supplementary Prose, from Complete Prose Works (1892)
Leymus chinensis flowers are hermaphroditic and arranged in compound spikes.
Predatory fish in the ecozone include the lake sturgeon, brook trout, lake trout, northern pike, muskellunge, largemouth bass, sauger, and walleye.
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
The racemes consist of many male spikelets with one (rarely two) female spikelets at the base; the rachis is stout above, and the part within the bract enclosing the female spikelet is slender. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The climbers will ascend the mountains of Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in England and Snowdon in Wales as part of their trek.
These mains spikes sometime consist of surges of thousands of volts, albeit for very brief periods.
Drinking caffeinated beverages can temporarily cause a spike in your blood pressure.
A piece of wood showed among the rubble on the desk, the blunt end of a marlinespike. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
The frantic and furious beating took on the dimension and character of a collective crew of railroaders pounding spikes in unison on a stretch of track.
The spikenard is a lowly herb, the emblem of humility. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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There was no way to simulate a spike of that magnitude.
My apartment looks out to the New Jersey turnpike and Silver Lake Park.
I polished my axe and the spike on the shield, put on my armor and went out of the tent.
In one study, U.S. and Canadian government scientists purposely contaminated an experimental lake in Ontario with around 5 nanograms per liter of ethynyl estradiol, and studied the effects on the lake's fathead minnow population, a common species that fish like lake trout and northern pike feed on. YubaNet.com
Roses are beginning to bloom, delphiniums are tall and lupins dot the beds with their spikes of bright colour.
The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Roses are beginning to bloom, delphiniums are tall and lupins dot the beds with their spikes of bright colour.
The proposed bi-directional converter has no high voltage spike problem and start-up problem, which are inherent in current-fed and voltage-fed hybrid type bi-directional converters.
Differences in morphology, growth habit, adult plant height, spike size, and development of spikes at nodes were observed.
You plummet to the bottom screaming and are impaled on the spikes.
I found a spike and bolt only and nowhere to belay a lead in rope.
The only award they both deserve is a length of hempen rope and tall tree - are there still spikes on the Palace of Westminster where traitors' heads can be displayed?
PLEBEIA; an acerose LEUCOPOGON; a species of violet, with small, densely-spiked flowers (was covered with wild bees in search of its honey). Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
His jet-black hair was slightly longer than most guys kept their hair; his bangs fell forward in spikes at his forehead.
A lot of the problems that we saw the VIX spike on are still waiting in the wings," said Layla Peruzzi , Jefferies & Co. vice president for equity derivatives sales, noting rising commodity prices in addition to worries about European debt, Japan and unrest in oil-producing regions. Options Players Gird for Higher Oil Prices and Inflation
Pikemen stood on guard with their 16 feet long weapons and musketeers cleaned their matchlock muskets ready for the later mock battles.
The yellow flower spikes of a dwarf mullein or verbascum and the delicate white and pink trumpets of a creeping convolvulus defied my attempts at precise identification but were delightful nevertheless.
If one actually sees a real cilice, you'll recognize that the "sharp spikes" are actually smooth points that remind the wearer of their presence, but could never break the skin. Archive 2006-06-01
Stick your head through and hey presto, it looks to have been impaled on a pikestaff above York's royal gateway.
Some previous stuff I have done on thieving pikey bastards: assorted pikey pictures and my bit on how you can not call pikey thieving gippo scum itinerant travellers. Archive 2008-03-01
Outside of the G4/Spike safety zones, men got gushier. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
Armed robberies have spiked dramatically over the past year.
The “river” itself was more like a sludge channel, and trees hugged at its banks, choking it at impossible angles on either side, looking vaguely as though two armies were facing off with spindly and florid pikes, unsure who would make the first move over the brown, oily runnel between them. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans. Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
The basins repeatedly filled with water, spiked with fluorescent pigment, which glowed a toxic green under the black Light, then emptied, in a slow, inexorable rhythm.
I gelled my hair so it would keep its messily spiked style and grabbed a beaded hemp necklace that one of my friends had made for me off the bathroom counter.
A secondary goal is to assess how well the vaccine stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies and cellular immunity, in this case, focusing on the SARS spike protein.
The team would see a spike in attendance, and depending on how bad he is, could actually get worse without looking like they're tanking to get the top draft pick.
Late Friday, the military rulers issued a stern warning that they will crack down on what they called "deviant groups," which they blamed for a spike in crime and violence. Mubarak's wife in hospital after arrest
Preliminary numbers show that about 8,000 to 10,000 vehicles were traveling on the road each day, a turnpike spokesman said.
He was an unlimited supreme commander, but he also risked loss of blood along with his most humble pikeman.
His foot and leg injury cause him to limp as he sprints toward Spike and spears him to the ground.
South Korea is seeing a spike in the price of pork belly, with 10000 won (RMB52) per kg, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.
The answer's as plain as a pikestaff they were made for each other. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Extra strong paint formulas, and wooden fences supported by metal spikes extended the life of exterior fittings in tough New England weather.
The biggest pike caught during the winter leagues was a whopper of twenty-five pounds, caught on a deadbait on March 2.
And now, thanks to the generous nature of Yorkshire folk, she knows a lot about apple dumplings, pikelets and rabbit patties too.
Most of the spikes were still not hammered down properly.
His head had a halo of curls at the bottom and both his ears were pierced with spike earrings.
We zoom in for a brief moment to show the array of spike traps the police have laid in place to disable the car.
Her first major role was in Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" and she followed this with a part in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever".
You know that West Virginia coalmine that's the star of Spike TV's new reality series "Coal," from the same guy who brings you Discovery's "Deadliest Catch"? Feds cite mining company with safety violations while Spike TV crew films reality show
This teenager held a buff build and tall lean body with brown hair was spiked and wire frame glasses rested on his nose.
The _spikelets_ are biseriate, loosely imbricate, ovate, acute, pubescent or villous (sometimes quite glabrous), sessile or shortly pedicelled; the pedicels have one or two (rarely more) long hairs. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
But solar power is always discussed, I guess because of the energy crisis that we always seem to be in--aka manipulated prices at the pump--and the real cost spikes of oil. Mike Ragogna: Lighting Up and Lifting Off The Ground : Conversations With Shawn Mullins and Chely Wright
There are also a series of intensely sweet, almost saccharine desserts, like peanut ice parfait (spiked with cane liquor) and an extra-creamy flan made from vanilla beans.
Above Nick, just over his forehead, there was a crescent shaped piece of metal with thousands of tiny spikes.
Might not small pike have kept themselves hidden and out of harm's way? Times, Sunday Times
The bit about not only sugary things tasting good shows Pomelo capering through asparagus-spiked hills. A Tiny Ambassador to Entrancing Worlds
He's a bulldog competitor, but the key to his success is confidence in a spike curveball.
Nothing is more conducive to inducing mains spikes than heavy duty switch gear.
A caltrop is a military device consisting of four metal spikes arranged so that, whichever way it falls, at least one spike points upwards.
Iron spikes have been welded to the railings around the embassy.
the punch is spiked!
Maryland's Baltimore to Cumberland section of the Historic National Road was designated the Historic National Pike.
That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spend the night in a deserted building worthy to be haunted by all the elfins of Journey to the Interior of the Earth
And it was inconceivable that she would have gone - the Charlotte Meiner I knew would have clobbered you over the head with a marline spike. When Eight Bells Toll
The boatswain, climbing up with marlinspikes and bunches of spunyarn rovings, or kneeling on the yard and ready to take a turn with the midship-stop, had acute and fleeting visions of his old woman and the youngsters in a moorland village. The Nigger of the Narcissus
I just return the other night with a spike buck that is now hanging in my garage it is not the biggest dear I have ever shot but it will join the half a moose in my freezer and on Sunday evening coming home from ice fishing and having some venision stew and bannock I will feel very successful. How do you measure Success - something "In the Freezer" or "On the Wall"?
The names usually refer to the tall flowering spike which in medieval times was dipped in tallow and set aflame as a torch in the evening.
Traffic spiked quickly and contained a mix of retweets and original posts, mostly sexual jokes of varying quality.
The gun-carriage is rolled forward into firing position by handspikes or block and tackle.
Tom Arthurs' Centipede are fidgety writhers, striking angular shapes with tricky grooves and utilising the spiked fork of their leader's trumpet and Laubrock's soprano saxophone.

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