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Sentences ending with stricken

Has my son, too, been stricken? [10]
The instinctive bringing to life was there, and the divining helplessness and the terrible accusation of the stricken. [13]
She was suddenly stricken. [9]
Only when the shadows lengthen may he be stricken. [11]
It was a heavy affliction to them to see the beloved prince so stricken. [5]
She was stunned and stricken. [11]

Sentences containing stricken two or more times

Judge Douglas does not say that the words which Trumbull says were stricken out were not so stricken out, but he says there was no provision in the Toomb's bill to submit the constitution to a vote of the people. [7]

More example sentences with the word stricken in them

He must have witnessed something very terrible, for his face was as pale as death, and his usually confident and swaggering manner had given place to a stricken and care-worn air. [10]
And then anon within six strokes Sir Launcelot had stricken them to the earth. [5]
In anguish Jane Withersteen turned speechlessly to Lassiter, and, confirming her fears, she saw him gray-faced, aged all in a moment, stricken as if by a mortal blow. [13]
Melissa threw her whole soul into the dance while Demeter was seeking the lost Persephone, her thoughts were with her brothers; and she laughed as heartily as any one at the jests with which Iambe cheered the stricken mother. [10]
The whole legislature was stricken speechless with dismay and astonishment. [5]
Like a mistress upon whom we have lavished the days of our youth and the strength of our days, she has deceived us; she has stricken us while we slept. [11]
He has not undertaken to say that Trumbull tells a lie about these words being stricken out, but he is really, when pushed up to it, only taking an issue upon the meaning of the words. [7]
Thence will I try to find my way to the army and the poor stricken people of whom I was. [11]
Probably the Eiffel Tower would be stricken down as a monumental presumption, like that of Babel, if it had not been raised with the full knowledge and consent of all the world. [4]
I went back to the little house by the cathedral, and was admitted by the stricken wife. [11]
For his omission to perform his whole duty on that occasion, and the injury thereby inflicted on the service and the country, his name was stricken from the list of naval officers and he was dismissed [from] the service. [7]
Like all wounds, those inflicted by the arrows of Eros heal more slowly when youth lies behind the stricken one. [10]
Four days ago this gallant young officer had taken risk for him, had saved him from injury, perhaps death; to-day the spear meant for him had stricken down this same young officer, never to rise again. [11]
The burning of their town had brought new and fearful suffering on the stricken Memphites, and notwithstanding Katharina's death the Nile still did not rise. [10]
At last from the stricken Denzil came the words: "You'll have your own way about the boots. [11]
But it was the sight of his stricken father that first brought him completely to his sober senses. [10]
For three weeks the old prince lay stricken by paralysis in the new house Prince Andrew had built at Bogucharovo, ever in the same state, getting neither better nor worse. [2]
The lives of the mighty heathen, as his Plutarch painted them, would, he said, raise even a weak soul to their greatness and the Consolatio Philosophiae of Boetius would of a surety refresh my stricken heart. [10]
And when in the midst of his career, with such large ideas of public service and philanthropy, he was stricken down, he left to me, in the confidence of his love, all that fortune which is some day to be yours. [4]
Springing forward to the half-open door, he pushed it wide, and met the terror- stricken eyes of Constantine Jopp--the same look that he had seen at the theatre when his hands were on Jopp's throat, but more ghastly. [11]
Trumbull has given the exact words that he says were in the Toomb's bill, and he alleges that when the bill came back, they were stricken out. [7]
It passed in the dusk with a foot of fear, And the white cold mists rolled in; And my heart was the heart of a stricken deer, Of a soul in the snare of sin. [11]
All Augsburg, all the dignitaries of the realm, even the Emperor, would pity her, and the end of her life would be as proud and as renowned as that of the chivalrous hero who dies victor on the stricken field. [10]
One King, holding the curse in light estimation, made the attempt, but was stricken sorely for his presumption. [5]
Here was still the blank cheerless room, the empty house, the lamplight flaring through the window upon his stricken face, upon the dark walls, upon the white paper lying on the table beside him. [11]
Still the same terrible low cry went on--still the same rocking in the chair--the same stricken figure was there, unchanged and heedless of his presence. [12]
He was faithfully tended by Eppelein, the son of a good servant of our father's who had lost his life in waiting on his master when stricken with the plague. [10]
Luke Claridge was stricken with paralysis, no doubt would die; Soolsby alone stood in his way. [11]
Then he was stricken with leprosy, and was carried to the place from whence no leper returns. [11]
His grandeurs were stricken valueless: they seemed to fall away from him like rotten rags. [5]
She was horror stricken by the idea of the sudden, cruel end that hung over the young bride, and he replied sadly; "I shall not be able to restrain the wretches; still, no means shall remain untried. [10]
Never off the stage, thought she, had she seen a man so stricken by love; for she could not suspect that to him it was as though a gulf had suddenly yawned at his feet. [10]
Then at last, slowly, and with no roughness, as the terror- stricken impostor shrank and withered, he cut the cords. [11]
And then, when she stopped at the post-office to speak to Ephraim on her way homeward in the afternoon, she heard men talking behind the partition, and she stood, as one stricken, listening beside the window. [9]
But she has seen men tied to their horses ride as that man is riding, when stricken with fever, bruised by falling timber, lacerated by a grizzly, wounded by a bullet, or crushed by a herd of buffaloes. [11]
And then to see them, one after another, stricken down, and looking a little sheepish and not saying much, and by-and-by radiant. [4]
He looked to see her burst into tears and wailing, but she only stood and looked at him like one stricken blind. [11]
But Judge Douglas says that he himself moved to strike out that last provision of the bill, and that on his motion it was stricken out and a substitute inserted. [7]
He did not say that Douglas was among them, but we prove by another source that about the same time Douglas comes into the Senate with that provision stricken out of the bill. [7]
Her own mother sat in a corner, stricken and numb. [11]
Trumbull has not said it was not; Trumbull has himself said that it was so stricken out. [7]
But then he remembered, as they dodged from in front of the horses, what it was not merely a political debate: The pulse of nation was here, a great nation stricken with approaching fever. [9]
She could not remember the time when she had been away from Peter, and it was natural that he should be stricken at the news. [9]
Hylda had not recovered wholly from the illness which had stricken her down on that day in London when she had sought news of David from Eglington, at such cost to her peace and health and happiness. [11]
The words "and ratified by the people at the election for the adoption of the constitution" had been stricken out. [7]
The people that ran to him were stricken dumb to find that the life was actually gone out of the man and no reason for it visible, no hurt upon his body, nothing like a wound. [5]
But Archibius now raised himself, left the couch, passed his hand across his brow, and in the deep, calm tones natural to his voice, began with a sorrowful smile: "A man stricken by an arrow leaves the fray to have his wound bandaged. [10]
To-day I have racked their limbs; but I have yet to strike them to the heart, as they have stricken me! [10]
It was a poverty stricken place. [5]
Presently arrive a pauper couple stricken with age and infirmities; and they begin to mumble and pray to the Spirit of Life, who is said to inhabit that spot. [5]
Mr. Bernard found out their project accidentally, and, wishing to have his share in it, brought home from one of his long walks some boughs full of variously tinted leaves, such as were still clinging to the stricken trees. [6]
It has stricken our first-born son. [10]
Look, this was our first-born son, and the plague has also stricken two of the temple-servants. [10]
He was like one who has been projected from one world to another, dazed, stricken, fearful. [11]
Dyck dropped on one knee and placed a hand on the stricken man's heart. [11]
The stricken widow of the dead man stood below, waiting, but no one would fetch the body down. [11]
In the spring of 1899, while at New Orleans, he was stricken by pneumonia which nearly brought him to the grave. [4]
An accident had occurred far down on the railway line, and the operator of the telegraph-office had that very day been stricken down with pleurisy and pneumonia. [11]
Was he himself not stricken by it? [11]
Why, Trumbull has not said it was not stricken out, but Trumbull says he [Douglas] put it in; and it is no answer to the charge to say he afterwards took it out. [7]
And so they nodded invisibly and smiled inwardly with satisfaction, and looked to see this foolish lad stricken with a palsy of guilty confusion. [5]
That very night, Mr Richard was seized with an alarming illness, and in twenty-four hours was stricken with a raging fever. [12]
The blood had mounted to the man's face and eyes, and pressing his hand to his purple forehead he sank back in his chair as if stricken with apoplexy. [10]
Then, in the midst of this abject self-pity, I was stricken with shame. [9]
So this able man, who might have sat in the seats of Maryland's high reward, was stricken when he was needed most. [9]
They regard the man who mourns for one he loves as stricken by the hand of the Almighty and hallowed by his touch and treat him with the reverence of pious awe. [10]
Sometimes, after a long night's watching, he looks so pale and worn, that one would think the cold moonlight had stricken him with some malign effluence such as it is fabled to send upon those who sleep in it. [6]
Wolf groaned aloud like a sorely stricken deer, and for a moment it seemed to him that the best course would be to put an end to his own ruined life. [10]
Only one face Laura saw, as she led the way to the moment's safety--Tim Denton's; and it was as stricken as her own. [11]
The poor damp laborers were stricken to the heart with fright, and stampeded for the high grass in a body. [5]
For a moment Kaid stood and looked at Zaida, rigid and stricken in that awful isolation which is the leper's doom. [11]
The day following, Jack left his card of condolence at the door; but one day passed, and another and another, and no word of acknowledgment came from the stricken widow. [4]
No one knew its exact nature, but now and again, in long years, some one going to Dalgrothe Mountain was seized by it, and died, or was left stricken with a great loss of the senses, or the limbs. [11]
Ingolby had, as it were, been stricken out of the active, sentient, companionable world into a world where he was alone, detached, solitary. [11]
Sophie's figure as it left the room had that drooping, beaten look which only comes to the stricken and the incurably humiliated. [11]
I presume it is true that that last proposition was stricken out by Judge Douglas. [7]
He had been invited to their home, intimacy had grown, and afterwards, stricken with a severe illness, he had been taken into the household and kept there till he was well again. [11]
How could he infer that a submission was still implied, after its express provision had been stricken from the bill? [7]
I ask why, if the Judge wanted to make a direct issue with Trumbull, did he not take the exact proposition Trumbull made in his speech, and say it was not stricken out? [7]
Suddenly, and as if stricken by terror, she stopped her whirl, and at the same instant the lamps went out and the only light was from the stars and the twinkling coals under the cauldrons. [10]
It is true, I know, that that clause was stricken from the bill, but it was done by the votes of the Whigs, aided by a portion only of the Van Buren senators. [7]
He had no hope for the stricken horse. [13]
It does you honor, Major Hawkins, it has relieved me of a most painful embarrassment and distress, and it will save that poor stricken old father much suffering. [5]
Henderson was beside himself; stricken with grief, enraged, I believe, as well, at the thought of his own impotence. [4]
She had pictured him stricken and dumfounded by the blow. [11]
The thought of him stirred Heinz to the depths of his soul, and he would fain have hastened at once to the castle to help the stricken father bear the new and terrible burden imposed upon him. [10]
She drew back her head from the balcony rail, and tried to sit still and to think, but she was trembling as one stricken with a chill. [9]
But, now that her clear old friend is stricken, she has lost her self-control for the first time. [10]
Your brother met her again, and he was stricken with apoplexy while with her this evening. [9]
The blue eyes held me in wonder, and these blazed with such prodigious wrath that, if a look could have killed, Hump Gibson would have been stricken on the spot. [9]
At that instant he caught sight of the flushed face of Detricand, who broke into a laugh of tipsy mirth when Olivier Delagarde told how the French officer had stricken him down as he was about finishing off Rullecour. [11]
And it is hard indeed to the stricken heart to look for a new spring for the withered harvest of joy. [10]
The stricken driver had sunk down on the boot as soon as he was wounded, but had held on to the reins and said he would manage to keep hold of them until relieved. [5]
He, though stricken, had not wavered in his faith. [9]
But what reward had it for the lonely, embittered, stricken man whose genius and courage had gained for it the great Northwest territory? [9]
With both legs gone the stricken fellow asked first for a match to light his cutty pipe and then remarked: "The saint's own luck that there it was with the stem unbroke to give me aise whin I wanted it! [11]
She looked out from under the gun, as though expecting to find him coming--to see him somewhere on this stricken plain. [11]
All strength went from me apparently, and I fell back like a stricken invalid. [5]
He then brings forward to show, and showing, as he deemed, that Judge Douglas reported the bill back to the Senate with that clause stricken out. [7]
In exile we few stricken folk must stand together, your august Majesty. [11]

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