I have seen a pike killed with a prong as he lay basking in the sun at the top of the water.
A labourer stealthily approached, and suddenly speared him with one of the sharp points of the prong or hayfork he carried: the pike was a good sized one too.
The last part of the meeting was devoted to a season of prayer for Secretary Pike in consideration of his serious illness.
Pike and himself entered upon the work of the American Missionary Association, and that he was now left alone, adding that in the death of Brother Pike, Fisk University had lost one of its warmest friends.
Pike was eminently social and was blessed with unusual conversational powers, and gave to others and won from them to himself strong personal friendships.
Mr. Pike as business manager contributed in a large measure to this gratifying result.
One of the most remarkable sights we see on the Pikewuz Jim Key, a horse that is valued at a hundred thousand dollars, who travels in his own private car.
I'm goin' to the Pike to-day and you can do as you're a minter.
For the Pike is the amusement street of the Exposition.
There wuz a big street show at the other end of the Pike and this place wuz most deserted by sight-seers, and Blandina and I sot down on a bench by the side of one of these little housen to rest.
The Four Cowboys on a Tear guardin' the entrance to the Pike confronted us and in their wild and boysterous hilarity seemed to my agitated and forebodin' sperit to shadow forth what we would find inside their domain.
He came back and became the General Pike who died at the moment of his glorious victory over the English, in the War of 1812.
Robinson, who accompanied Lieutenant Pike on his famous expedition.
Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes.
A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
Captain Pike of course protested, to which Captain Semmes replied by ordering the destruction of the vessel.
Captain Pike signifying his assent, we went into the cabin, and the papers being produced, I pointed out some of the discrepancies and acts previously mentioned.
What added to our triumph was the copy of a letter from Captain Pike to his owners, in which he stated that "he had taken such precautions as would deceive Semmes and all the Confederates.
Outwardly he was as unlike Margaret as the haft of a pike is unlike a lily, but I already saw her spirit in him.
With the arm of the Flesh and the sword of the Spirit, Push of pike and the Word, Smiting and praying, and praising and slaying, Oliver fights for the Lord.
Three or four of the hungry pike bit, however, one being a lady signing herself “Y.
With the betting infatuation there has naturally sprung up a swarm of knowing hungry pike ready to take advantage of it.
The Englishmen snatched pike and cutlass, pistol and battleaxe, killed seven or eight of the Spanish boarders, threw the rest overboard, and flung stones on them as they scrambled into their boats.
They came on gallantly, but were received with pike and shot, and after a few attempts gave up and retired.
He crouched upon the ground, holding his helmet over him, while saber strokes and pike thrusts rang upon cuirass and buckler like blows upon an anvil.
The baron could no longer summon his vassals, at the moment, to abandon the plow, and seize pike and saber for battle, where the strong arm only was needed.
The first stroke of the sword was upon his forehead, but the venerable man remained standing; a second made the blood flow in torrents, but still he did not fall; the fifth laid him on the ground, when a pike was driven through his heart.
Captain Richard Peeke, or Peke, or Pike (he signs himself Peeke in his pamphlet, but in a private letter Dr.
Low Countries 'trayl'd a pikein her Majesty's service, Queen Elizabeth of glorious memory.
That night any one who happened to have been belated on the Versailles 'pike might have passed Elias jogging along on his horse, looking very important, and an air of mystery enveloping him like a garment.
Well, just the other side of those trees the lane we passed joins the 'pike again.
The first-fruits of your regeneration must be a tincture of poison and pike in the metropolis against heretics.
One of them struck his wife with a musket, and another gave her a stab of a pikein the back, with an intent of murdering her.
A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
We lay some time in the Niagara, the commodore going to the harbour to get the Pike ready.
He fitted it on to the crook of his pike by the handle, and, craning over the drawbridge, first smoothed away the leaf-green duck-weed on the moat and then sank the bottle in the black water.
But I have not yet chiselled out the great piece that shall come from my pike when certain sure I am that Kat Howard is down under a man's foot.
Fredericksburg Pike on the line of Federal supplies.
After striking the Orange and Fredericksburg pike at eight o'clock in the morning, a halt was called and the men rested while the wagon and ambulance trains passed.
By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic.
Just beyond the right of our regiment the pike crossed a low ridge or swell of ground, and on this ridge in the pike our people planted a couple of 20 pounder Parrott guns and opened with them on the enemy.
We lined up along the side of the pike with our horses' tails in the bushes and the infantry and artillery defiled past us, going from our left to our right into action.
For the other eminence is the one visited by the adventurous stranger; and the shepherd has no inducement to ascend the PIKE in quest of his sheep; no food being there to tempt them.
I ought to have mentioned that round the top of Scawfell-PIKE not a blade of grass is to be seen.
The pike was very little esteemed by ancient gastronomists, who viewed it only as an ignoble inhabitant of muddy water, and the implacable enemy of frogs.
In the north, and particularly in Siberia, the pike is preserved salted and smoked; the largest only are used, those weighing about two pounds.
Among the examples of longevity of this fish, the most remarkable is that of the pike of kaisers’-lantern, which was nineteen feet long, weighed 350 lbs.
He'll be on guard at one of the roads; the very spot of all others for us; near a little thicket they call the Pike Wood.
I was pretty reckless by that time, and in no mood to be man-handled by a set of German roughs; so I changed the barrier into a weapon of offence; it made a fine sort of pike with its ironshod end; and I used it without scruple or mercy.
Frontispiece: "I used the pike with its ironshod end without scruple or mercy.
We turn off into the next lane on the right: it runs across the frontier; the Pike Wood's just there; but you'll have to stop a little short of it to turn the car.
In my preface to By Pike and Dyke I promised in a future story to deal with the closing events of the War of Independence in Holland.
It is all very well when it comes to push of pike with the Spaniards, but to remain here like chickens in a coop while they batter away at us is a game for which I have no fancy.
