Which preposition to use with stricken
And it may be that a brave woman, into whose life the sunlight had shined, was stricken with grief and bowed down.
When we arrived near General St. Leger's quarters we saw the last of the army fleeing as if panic-stricken in the direction of Oneida Lake, no longer preserving any semblance of military formation, but each man for himself, and, what was yet more puzzling, their Indian allies were in close pursuit, striking down laggards whenever the opportunity offered.
she ejaculated, terror-stricken at once.
Stout fellows in hip-boots take a boat and rescue the scurvy-stricken from the roof.
Or with this club fall stricken to the earth!
Some market-people and children gaze awe-stricken into his face, and an aged man and woman, with clapsed and uplifted hands, seem to be praying for him.
But now was the Duke stricken of a greater pain and leaned him upon the shoulder of his esquire, faint and sick of soul, and knew an anguish deeper than any flesh may know.
On our way home over the meadows, where the grasshoppers were practising for the next day's sports, and were in high glee over this harvest festival, Mr. Goodman seemed fidgety; whether conscience-stricken for the Sabbath fraud he had practised upon me or not, I could not say, but at last he asked how I liked their little service.
I can bear being of small consideration, occupying very little space in the world, but to be stricken out of existence entirely, to possess no legal identity, to be regarded as absolutely nobody, is a thing I don't intend to standmark that, Mr. W.' "'Keep cool, my dear,' said I; 'let us argue this matter.'
No authentic account of his death had indeed arrived, and no one appeared who had seen him fall, but hundreds more had been so stricken on that fatal day, with no eyes to behold their last pangs, save those of the lurking enemy and the comrades dying by their side.
Ann with the radiance gone; though, for just that moment, less stricken than defiant.
," said Stephen, almost as horror-stricken as Mercy.
" Then at the chariot he flung the spear, And Laegh was stricken unto death and fell Cuchullin drew the spear and bade a last farewell "The victor I, and eke the charioteer!"
Were the sea-gull wings of the fishing-boats to flee panic-stricken before those gray sharks of steel!...
Then Eliazar, King Pelles' son, brought tofore them the broken sword wherewith Joseph was stricken through the thigh.
They cared nothing for the Mogul, nothing for the pageant King at Delhi; but they had been panic-stricken by extravagant stories of coming destruction.
The few figures in sight seemed staggering towards the grave, and the houses appeared to be plague-stricken like the inhabitants.
But when he died, stricken without warning, some five years after Patricia's marriage, his will was discovered to bequeath practically his entire fortune to little Roger Musgrave when the child should come of age; and to Rudolph Musgrave, as Patricia's husband, what was a reasonable income when judged by Lichfield's unexacting standards rather than by Patricia's anticipations.
Many hurried to an old quarry, half full of water, on the road to Broughill, and peered horror-stricken over the edge, but said nothing.
Montreal became panic-stricken lest the soldiers, baited past endurance, should break out in open violence.
When they, conscious of their lack of forces, declined battle, the courage of the Romans immediately increased, and they considered them vanquished, as they stood panic-stricken within their rampart.