Although primarily a military weapon, the pike could be surprisingly effective in single combat and a number of 16th-century sources explain how it was to be used in a dueling situation; fencers of the time often practiced with and competed against each other with long staves in place of pikes.
22.
Full work was finally commenced on the music of " Siegfried ", as the composer henceforth referred to it, in 1856, when Wagner prepared concurrently two drafts, a complete draft in pencil and a version in ink on up to three staves in which he worked out details of instrumentation and vocal line.
23.
Writing in 1778, he states " we are authorised . . . to call some of the representations on my window, Morris Dancers, though I am uncertain whether it exhibits one Moorish personage, as none of them have black or tawny faces, nor do they brandish swords or staves in their hands, nor are they, in their shirts adorned with ribbons ."
24.
In this structure, the 12 ?-strands of the ?-trefoil are arranged in three pseudorepeats of four ?-strand units, of which the first and last ?-strands are antiparallel staves in a six-stranded ?-barrel, while the second and third ?-strands of each repeat form a ?-hairpin sitting atop the ?-barrel.
25.
The mob afterwards demolished several stalls and threw ginger beer bottles about and staved in a cask of beer and we believe broke woman's arm, 10 were apprehended of whom four were committed to Bury gaol for rioting, they were Samuel Outlaw, Edward Reeve, John Race and George Stigwood for violent assault on John Coe and his wife at Cowlinge Fair . }}
26.
In the Water Margin s 9th chapter entitled Chai Jin Keeps Open House For All Bold Men, Lin Chong Defeats Instructor Hong in a Bout with Staves , it reads, Chai Jin said to the man, whom he called Arms instructor Hong : This is Arms instructor Lin who teaches the art of spears and staves in the Eastern Capital s Imperial Guards .
27.
There is a photograph of a detail of the stave in Aslak Liest�l, Runer fr?Bryggen, " Viking : Tidsskrift for norr�n arkeologi ", 27 ( 1964 ), 5 53, reproduced in Stephen A . Mitchell, Anaphrodisiac Charms in the Nordic Middle Ages : Impotence, Infertility and Magic, " Norveg ", 41 ( 1998 ), 19-42 ( p . 29 ).
