46 adjectives to describe hitting

One of the shipsthe Raglan, I believetaking a signal from a seaplane, got a direct hit on an ammunition train at Beit Hanun, the railway terminus north of Gaza.

Justice and Honour on my Sword shall sit, And my Revenge shall guide the lucky hit.

A hit, a very palpable hit.

Yerkes followed with a clean hit to left field for a base and won the first game for Boston with that hit.

Fetch on the fellah that makes them long words!he said,and planted a straight hit with the right fist in the concave palm of the left hand with a click like a cup and ball.

He was in the midst of a long and wholly uninteresting account of a charity bazaar, which the Princess of Wales had opened, and where the Duchess of Blank-Blank had made a tremendous hit and much money for a worthy cause, by selling her kisses for a guinea each, when his attention was attracted by a discreet shuffling of feet on the floor beside his chair.

Thus did our Moll, by one clever hit, draw an acknowledgment from them that we were indeed no fine folks, but mere players, which point they might have stumbled over in their cooler moments.

trump card; hit, stroke, score; lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke; direct hit, bull's eye; goal, point, touchdown; home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam; killing [make money], windfall bold stroke, master stroke; ten strike [U.S.];

No man has made more brilliant hits, and his speeches are concise and full of originality.

" At the random hit he glanced sharply at her, but she was looking a little past him, thinking.

Doyle followed along with a sharp hit to center field for a base and although he was forced out by Becker, the latter drove the ball hard.

" I wondered how a battery commander would determine the difference between a casual hit and the first shell of a bombardment definitely planned and accurately placed.

Song lyrics, uptown hits.

"Over" had just been called, and the invincible Partridge stepped forward to play, evidently making up his mind for another boundary hit.

Later still comes the time when the selectors became employers of labour, and The Stringy-bark Cockatoo, though rough in style and versification, is a splendid hit at the new squireens.

" That was a nasty hit for Eleseus; he turned red, and understood he had offended her.

Sir Oliver being a Parliament-man was much in London and deep in politics and intrigue, and subject, as convivial rogues are, to occasional hard hits from gout.

De Presbyterin chu'ch was de only one 'round dere an' dey sprinkled ever'bodyjes poured water ober dey heads frum a glass an' den patted hit hit in (demonstrated).

He took the head, and carried it And laid it down by Saul; And showed him where the pebble hit That caused the giant's fall.

Dr. Johnson, glad of an opportunity to have a pleasant hit at Scottish learning, said, 'they have been afraid it never would fall.'

Not to deny, then, but that, now and then, there has been a lad of very submissive parts, and perhaps no great share of time allowed him for his studies, who has proved, beyond all expectation, brave and glorious: yet, surely, we are not to over-reckon this so rare a hit, as to think that one such proving lad should make recompense and satisfaction for those many "weak ones," as the common people love to phrase them, that are in the Church.

Could the scholar be aiming a sly sarcastic hit at the bareness of our educational outposts in the West?

"The great questions are to be settled," he told the Prussian Diet, with a scornful hit at the Confederation, "not by speeches and majority resolutions, but by blood and iron.

The squatters also had a word to say, and The Broken-down Squatter puts their side of the case in a sort of ad misericordiam appeal; while The Eumerella Shore is a smart hit at the cattle-stealers who availed themselves of the chances afforded by the new state of things in the country.

Mr. Penruddock gave a spiteful hit, being, as he said, of a cantankerous turn, to Mr. Treluddra, principal "jowder," i.e. fish salesman, of Aberalva.

46 adjectives to describe  hitting