"Piked" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into tears, but bit his lips and continued: "Oh, they ran like snakes then—like snakes—like snakes, and we came crashing down to the tree and in a moment the last machine had piked—but I know 'em, every man-jack!" he cried. "There was the old man, tied hand and foot, three yards from the tree, and there, half leaning, half sitting by the tree, the boy, the big, red-headed, broken and crippled ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... were killed, I was with Chatillon nine years later, when he rode through the Faubourgs of Paris, with this very day and his father Coligny in his mind, and gave no quarter. I was at Courtas and Ivry, and more than once have seen prisoners led out to be piked in batches—ay, and by hundreds! But war is war, and these were its victims, dying for the most part under God's heaven with arms in their hands: not men and women fresh roused from their sleep. I felt on ...
— The House of the Wolf - A Romance • Stanley Weyman |
