"Half-Pike" is a word in ENGLISH
A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry,
sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.
Their faces were inches apart now, and he traced her lips with one finger, lightly, lightly, then placed his lips there as if he’d drawn them into being.
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An old lady saw a little boy with a fishing-rod over his shoulder and a jar of tadpoles in his hand walking through the park one Sunday. "Little boy," she called, "don't you know you shouldn't go fishing on a Sunday?" "I'm not going fishing, ma'am," he called back, "I'm going home."
A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they.
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