15 Verbs to Use for the Word strikings

Near their edge soundings were suddenly obtained with nine fathoms and successive casts decreased the depth to six, five, and three and three-quarters fathoms; the helm was put a-lee to return but the wind at the same moment dying away, the vessel became ungovernable, and was drifted over the spit; fortunately however we found sufficient depth to prevent striking.

Then she heard the striking of a match in the breakfast-room, and she boldly pushed the door open.

If for hunting you've a liking, you can don a costume striking, And proceed to chase the fox.

In a series of libraries that abutted on to the Place, Monsignor Masterman, under the guidance of Dom Adrian Bennett, had spent a couple of hours this afternoon in examining the most striking of the records and photographs preserved there.

Still, I do not find the likeness striking.

Even the polished rock surfaces, the most evanescent of glacial records, are still found in a wonderfully perfect state of preservation on the upper half of the middle portion of the range, and form the most striking of all the glacial phenomena.

The ghosts then walked solemnly round and round, while at intervals one of them imitated the striking of the clock; as the hours advanced the ghosts became more demonstrative and the company in bed more terror-stricken, and as the clock struck twelve the ghosts jumped on to the table!

I didn't notice its striking.

We have already quoted the most striking of the poetical pieces, at page 283.

In the darkness we certainly did clutch a vertical rope, but could that simple actwe ask in a whisperhave had such an unusual effect as causing the clock to repeat its striking?

Not a sound broke the silencenothing save the striking of the clock at Corellia, bringing with it visions of the dark old churchthe kneeling womenand the peace of God within.

This move, if successful (as it proved to be) would serve two purposesfirst, the further punishment of Belgium for her unexpected resistance, and second, the striking of a direct blow at Great Britain, the possession of Antwerp being strategically regarded as "a pistol leveled at the head of London.

Not of this order was Florence Nightingale, whose practical hard work, personal reserve, and singular administrative power have placed her as high above impeachment for feminine weaknesses as above the ridicule which commonly attends the striking out of a new course by man or woman.

A dangerous polemist because of his ambuscades, a shrewd logician, executing flanking movements and attacking unexpectedly, the Comte de Falloux had also written striking, penetrating pages on the death of Madame Swetchine, whose tracts he had collected and whom he revered as a saint.

And therewith he ceased striking, and allowed those who could do so to escape.

15 Verbs to Use for the Word  strikings