1868 collocations for struck

The Review became immediately a power, appearing quarterly and striking its blows anonymously against a sluggish government, lashing the Tory writers, and taking its part, which is of greater consequence, in the promulgation of the Whig reforms which were to ripen in thirty years and convert the old into modern England.

After a moment, I struck another match, and, stumbling across the room, lit the candles.

One, shame at his vile conduct having been witnessed by a third person, the other that he had struck his head against the wall in falling and was stunned.

The terrific charge of these fierce Highlanders, combined with their dress, struck terror into the hearts of the Russians; who said that they thought they had come to fight men, but did not bargain for demons in petticoats!

He never struck a man but once in real earnest, and that was over in Keeseville, and on that occasion the people said the town clock had struck one.

The clock overhead struck the hour; both looked up but neither moved.

Chapters II and III are based on the fact that we must all use words in combinationmust fling the words out by the handfuls, even as the accomplished pianist must strike his notes.

Down, down, down at a tremendous speed they went; the earth appeared to be coming up to them with awful swiftness; and a minute or two later with a resounding crash they struck the ground at Newhaven close to the sea.

Or had he fired at Lewis' body and struck the hand and arm only by a random lucky chance?

I groped about, for a few moments, blindly; then my hands lit upon them, and I struck a light, and looked confusedly around.

Riding on to the northward I struck the old Santa Fe trail, ten miles from Fort Hays, just at break of day.

Wherefore I have made a firm resolve that if the conditions of German life will not allow room for the development of honest efforts for the good of humanity; if this indifference to all higher things continuesthen it is my purpose next spring to seek in the land of union and independence a soil where my idea of education may strike deep root.

No imaginable chirography could have struck the eye with more of contrast to the professor's small and nervous hand.

" Gull tuned up, struck a few chords, and then launched out into a rattling nigger song with an amount of "go" and clatter sufficient to inspire the hearer with an almost irresistible desire to get up and dance.

"Going all right," he reported, as he struck the water.

I heard them come into the room, the man speaking in a tone so low that the words were indistinguishable from where I stood; and then the sound of the door being shut struck my ear unpleasantly.

Arithmetic turns pale when she glances at them, and, striking her multiplication table with her algebraic knuckles, demands to know why the Express does not add a Cube-it to its THATCHER.

For having struck up a little fire for purposes of cooking victuals, the enemy who happened to be encamped a little distance off, had sent out a scouting party which discovered us by the smoke of the fire, just as we were extinguishing it and about to eat.

Although our Vulgate is not perfect, it possesses admirable strength and conciseness, joined to an agreeable savour which gives it the greatest value and causes the words of the sacred singers, under this form of the Latin spoken by the people, to strike the mind and become engraved upon the memory much better than if they were clothed in all the elegance of a modern tongue" (Vigouroux; Manuel Biblique, tom. ii., 663-664).

He struck a jutting rock, only half snowed under, that broke the sheer face of the promontory, and he bounded once like a rubber ball, struck a second time, caught desperately at a solitary clump of ice-sheathed alders, crashed through the snow-crust just below them, and was held there like a mudlark in its cliff nest, halfway between bluff and river.

Then to make himself all the more awful, he strikes an attitude and proceeds in his most tragic vein: "Declare with speed what spot you claim by birth.

Meyers crashed into the ball for a two-bagger that struck the wall in right field and the crowd began to believe that Wood had gone up in "smoke.

"Now," said Miriam Lake, the prettiest of the children, "it is time to strike the bells.

On the morning of the 28th the command crossed the South Beaver, distant nine miles from Camp Cody, and then striking a fair road we made a rapid march until we reached our camp on Short Nose or Prairie Dog Creek, about 2 P. M., after having made twenty-four miles.

But his hand flashed up and caught the metal before it struck his face.

1868 collocations for  struck