They did their best, to be sure, but we did better; and the end of it was they all flung down their pikes and cutlasses and gave in.
Within half an hour he set out with a dozen of them, well armed with pikes and cutlasses.
Therefore, he equipped them with arms, ammunition and with steel-tipped pikes which he had brought with him from Kansas.
They captured many of the gentlemen slaveholders of this area, and then John Brown suggested that they use their pikes to "strike for freedom!
And the pikes must be together at the risin' of the moon!
Get Ram Jennings, and six men who have been injured by the gang, and I'll have swords and pikes ready at ten.
Mark accepted the rebuke, and joined Dummy at once, the rest of the party followed, and at a word from Sir Edward, raised their pikes and advanced steadily, as if expecting at any moment to meet the foe.
The stones crashed in among the pikes with plenty of rattling, and a burst of yells followed as the men picked up a couple more.
But as Dan placed it against the bottom of the wall the pikes were aimed now at his breast.
There was again the same bristling array of pikes in the opening; and after a renewed summons to surrender, the old miner proceeded coolly to prepare a second bag of powder.
Yes; when we were in the cave, with the lights shining, and the pikes sparkling.
Take as long a hold of yourpikes as you can, and when I give the order, let your points be all together like one.
With pikes and gunnes, and bowemen bold, 65 This noble Howard is gone to the sea; With a valyant heart and a pleasant cheare, Out at Thames mouth sayled he.
With ourpikes and bills brown, How the French were beat downe, Shot by our bowman.
The Princess de Lamballe, whose only crime seems to have been her friendship for Marie Antoinette, was literally hewn to pieces, and her head, and that of others, paraded on pikes through the metropolis.
He reminded those around him of various heroic eras, when their presence and their pikes had decided the votes of the trembling deputies.
Blowguns, bows and arrows were cast aside, and they jumped into a hand-to-hand fight, with short pikes and such weapons as chance provided.
At first the two rebels were met with a flourish of pikes and angry cries that boded ill for their safety.
Those whom they did not despatch with their pikes and hatchets, they brought back to the fatal and all-devouring high road.
African rivers, and bony pikes (Lepidosteus) in the rivers of North America.
The Duke had brought with him from the Continent but a scanty supply of pikes and muskets.
In 1863 the Confederate Congress authorized the enlistment of companies armed with pikes who should take the places of men armed with firearms when the latter were dead or absent.
In 1861 the state legislature bought a thousand pikesand a hundred bowie-knives to arm the Forty-eighth Militia Regiment, which was defending Mobile.
Right under the lowered pikesshe darted and, all flushed and panting, defiantly faced the astonished Rufinus.
The austere St. Antonius had lectured long to the eels on the folly of wiggling, to the pikes on the immorality of stealing, and to the crabs and turtles on the danger of sloth.
You'll find her recommending pikes At many a crowded Chartist meeting, Where gentlemen, like William Sykes, To exiled patriots vote their greeting.
About two hundred persons were assembled beneath, in an area filled up with benches, as if for the exercise of worship; and they were all of the male sex, and well armed with pikes and muskets, as well as swords and pistols.
Gilline; "twenty gudgeons more like you, and the pikes will sing no more.
The bags were but partly removed when there was a rush from below, Miller and Tarleton with their cutlasses in hand, followed by the sailors with boarding-pikes dashed through the opening.
A hum of approval ran round the ship, and then the men stood to their guns with their pistols in their belts, and their muskets and boarding-pikes ready at hand.
She was flying before the wind towards the great darkpikes in the distance.
An hour before daybreak a litter, surrounded by a crowd of armed men, some bearing torches and some pikes and halberds, came out of the Hotel Vidoche and passed slowly down the Rue St. Denis.
The priest passed unharmed through the lowest wynds of Paris, and penetrated habitually to places where the Lieutenant of the Chatelet, with a dozen pikes at his back, would not have been safe for a moment.
Bayonets were seen gleaming in the sun; while some of the seamen, in the exterior of the crowd, were already laying their hands on the half-pikes that formed a warlike ornament to the foot of the mast.
Rienzi's guard, fell back too slowly for many of them to escape severe injury from the pikes of the soldiers and the hoofs of the horses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pikes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
