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Sentences starting with striking

Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second squadron, that in which Rostov was serving under Denisov, to return to the bridge. [2]
Striking as this train may unfold itself in her character, and as pre-eminent as it may stand among the fair display of her other qualities, yet there is another, which struggles into existence, and adds an additional luster to what she already possesses. [5]
Striking out for the shore, he swam with bold, strong strokes, his judgment guiding him well past rocks beneath the surface. [11]
Striking a match, she found a candle, lighted it, and then began her search. [11]
Striking a light, I found that the packet was addressed to the Governor. [11]
Striking a match, he saw a candle on the window-sill, and, going to it, he lighted it with a flint and steel lying near. [11]

Sentences ending with striking

He looks for the picturesque and the striking. [6]
No figures in the Park were so striking. [11]
Why--why are they striking? [9]
Its effect was striking. [11]
We ain't striking--you're striking! [9]
The effect was strange, and fine, and very striking. [5]
Yet these seem now rather striking. [5]
Maybe he did not quite dwarf him, but at any rate the contrast was quite striking. [5]
It's the strike in every one of us, sir,--and half the time we'd not know why we're striking! [9]
When he had finished she said: "That is very striking. [11]

Short sentences using striking

She is striking that horse! [11]
They made a striking pair. [5]

Sentences containing striking two or more times

Full striking was the difference; and the more striking because it was not the rough contrast of good and evil, but the more subtle opposition, the more delicate diversity of different kinds of good. [14]
A man with a flint and steel striking sparks over a wet blanket is one thing, and striking them over a tinder-box is another. [6]

More example sentences with the word striking in them

It was not yet dawn, however, for the clocks were only striking three as the assembly, in winter coats and soft wraps, fluttered out to its carriages, chattering and laughing, with endless good-nights in the languages of France, Germany, and Spain. [4]
He was not working alone here as he did at Richtberg; for Ulrich heard more than one hammer striking iron in the workshop. [10]
They have crossed without striking a blow! [2]
A striking contrast with what happened when Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon, and Spenser, and Raleigh, and the other distinguished literary folk of Shakespeare's time passed from life! [5]
Then striking him with one of the clubs, it broke in pieces; the bear stumbled. [5]
Whoever is just will scarcely blame her for striking the audacious conqueror on the brow with the weaver's shuttle. [10]
But this rule which leaves out of account the spirit of the army continually proves incorrect and is in particularly striking contrast to the facts when some strong rise or fall in the spirit of the troops occurs, as in all national wars. [2]
Tibet and Persia were not too far, and France was not too near to prevent the incalculably smooth working of a striking and far-reaching political move. [11]
That, if it were needed, was the concluding evidence of her femininity, for it went fittingly with her sun-tinted hair and darkened, dilated eyes, the sweetness of her mouth, and the striking symmetry of her slender shape. [13]
No two theories were alike, or even much resembled each other, save in one striking particular, and in that one all the other eleven theories were absolutely agreed. [5]
Past Chimney Rock we fly--noble shaft of six hundred feet; then just before landing at Minnieska our attention is attracted by a most striking promontory rising over five hundred feet-- the ideal mountain pyramid. [5]
And in it we are able to study the origin of the present English taste for the juxtaposition of striking and uncomplementary colors. [4]
We are largely wasting our energies in petty contrivances instead of striking at the root of the evil. [4]
If the scheme was striking, and new to the world's experience, the situation was not less so. [5]
Half the price was paid by Macnamara to the sheikh before they left the shade of the palm-trees, and, striking through the hills, emerged again into the desert farther north. [11]
His perfect amiability was one of his most striking characteristics, and in a nature fastidious as was his in its whole organization, it implied a self-command worthy of admiration. [6]
Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and saying there was devils a-hold of him. [5]
All along I was afraid it would be impossible for you to keep up so splendidly to the end; but you were only, I see now, striking eleven. [5]
Mr. Motley's case was a striking illustration that the renal disease of so-called Bright's disease may supervene as part and parcel of a larger and antecedent change in the blood-vessels in other parts than the kidney. [6]
In no previous war have the British given more striking proof of their inherent quality of doggedness. [9]
As Ingolby now walked in the woods towards Gabriel Druse's house, he recalled one striking phrase used by the aged priest in reference to the closing of the railway offices. [11]
Wolf had not waited long; it was just striking eleven when Barbara met him at the door talking with Herr Lerch, the owner of the house. [10]
There is one very striking thing which I wish to call attention to. [5]
Here they fight very much like game- cocks, seizing each other with their beaks and striking with their wings. [1]
And straight before Venters was a scene less striking but more significant to his keen survey. [13]
He will go upon the recommendation of two gentlemen of taste and travel whom we met at Baddeck, residents of Maine and familiar with most of the odd and striking combinations of land and water in coast scenery. [4]
The man sprang upon it, striking with his shoulder. [11]
There was another tree of striking aspect, a kind of pine, we were told. [5]
At this season, too, all her peculiar tastes in dress and ornament came out in a more striking way than at other times. [6]
But as he told of one striking incident in the Rockies, he heard Jacques make a quick expression of dissent. [11]
It was easy to perceive by his whole extremely striking appearance that he was rightly numbered among the Emperor's shrewdest councillors. [10]
If there was to be a fight--he looked affectionately at his carronades--then he wanted to be within seeing or striking distance. [11]
His mother had thrown herself weeping on the pale form, but his father had stamped his foot and had thrown back his head, sobbing and striking his forehead with his fist. [10]
Then did they throw themselves into one attitude, then into another, striking their swords on the ground, first on the right side, then on the left: at last at it they went with incredible ferocity. [4]
See also the three striking chapters on the 'Development of Religion,' in Lubbock's 'Origin of Civilisation,' 1870. [1]
To distract her thoughts she wandered round the room, looking at the works of art that stood against the walls, feeling the stuffs with which the cushions were covered and striking a lute which was leaning against the pedestal of a Muse. [10]
This was good; this would be romantic; two hundred and fifty people grouped on the windy summit, with their hair flying and their red blankets flapping, in the solemn presence of the coming sun, would be a striking and memorable spectacle. [5]
Captain Birch puts this striking incident in evidence. [5]
Among the striking things in it is this. [5]
Set down that thing that you said was the most striking one that was foretold to you, and happened less than a year afterward, and give it to me so I can see if Dave finds it in your hand. [5]
The types of these two were in striking contrast. [9]
He often said there was something striking about the ocean. [5]
These thoughts suggest themselves in looking back at the striking record of the family made historic by the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson. [6]
Mrs. Glow saw them at the same moment, but gave no other sign of her knowledge than by striking into the banter with more animation. [4]
Some slouched in their chairs, others stood and talked in groups, gesticulating with cigars and pipes; yet a keen spectator, after watching them awhile through the smoke, might have been able to pick out striking personalities among them. [9]
At this point their attention was distracted by a noise that bore a striking resemblance to a suppressed laugh. [9]
Its builders understood the value of a striking situation, a dominant position; it is a part of the universal policy of this church to secure the commanding places for its houses of worship. [4]
When he awoke the sparrows were twittering outside, the fresh cool smells of the morning were coming in at his windows, and the sunlight was just striking across the roofs through the green trees of the Capitol Park. [9]
He only acknowledged the shots by a salaam-like movement of his trunk, with the point of which he gently touched the wounds with a striking and peculiar action. [5]
In this article the reader will find a full exposition of the doctrine of plural personality illustrated by striking cases. [6]
The cruise of the Ranger in English waters the following spring was a striking fulfilment, with an absurdly poor and inadequate force, of the plan set forth by John Paul Jones in the Annapolis Coffee House. [9]
The disparity of the quotas for the draft in these two classes is certainly very striking, being the difference between an average of 2200 in one class and 4864 in the other. [7]
The first is the noble cast of the column of Trajan, vast in dimensions, crowded with history in its most striking and enduring form; a long array of figures representing in unquestioned realism the military aspect of a Roman army. [6]
Behind some of the most striking incidents in the history of New France, New England, and New York, was a woman. [11]
Perhaps some of the most striking contrasts are achieved in the least melodramatic way. [11]
If you let the moment pass without striking you will remain in the cage; but if you act and show yourself a lion your keepers are done for! [10]
This was because the man's appearance was very striking, and he seemed the type of Confederate fighter who would do and dare anything. [9]
This news, and the fact that Octavianus had condemned to death the youth who bore so striking a resemblance to Caesar, had not remained concealed from the unhappy mother. [10]
Half way down the column was a picture of Mr. Allen, a cut made from a photograph, and, allowing for the crudities of newspaper reproduction, it was a striking likeness of the Celebrity. [9]
It is possible that the roaring of the lion may be of some service to him by striking terror into his adversary; for when enraged he likewise erects his mane and thus instinctively tries to make himself appear as terrible as possible. [1]
His clothes bore that mark which distinguishes his world from the other, but his features were so striking as to hold my attention unwittingly. [9]
Nobody talks much that does n't say unwise things,--things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes. [6]
And when after tea he dressed in the character, his appearance was so striking that his mother could not refrain from some little admiration. [9]
When both had taken leave, Henrica paced rapidly to and fro, passionately striking her clenched fist in the palm of her other hand. [10]
If I'd a struck for home and forgot that little detail--However, I wasn't striking for home. [5]
It is a striking, picturesque town, built up a steep promontory, the old part at the bottom, very dingy and mouldy, the new part at the top, very showy and elegant. [6]
Gentlemen,' said Brass, striking the hat fiercely with his clenched hand, 'to all these questions I answer--Quilp! [12]
He didn't regret striking the fellow--he hoped he had left a mark on him. [5]
A still more striking spectacle was afforded by a voyage made on the Enz by the ladies of the Czarina's court, attired in airy summer dresses and adorned with a lavish abundance of flowers. [10]
There--it is a striking reminder that we are but creatures of use and custom; yes, and it is a reminder, too, of how harshly and unfairly fate deals with us sometimes. [5]
He sketched a striking picture of the shallow, unstable nature of the Alexandrians, a people wholly given over to enjoyment. [10]
I silenced the striking part of the works. [6]
There was something striking in the kind of forgetfulness by which he suffered. [6]
This is a striking illustration of the difficulty which the system finds in dealing with non-assimilable elements, and justifies in some measure the vulgar prejudice against mineral poisons. [3]
Perhaps the most striking feature of the American newspaper, especially of the country weekly, is its enormous development of local and neighborhood news. [4]
Many analogous and striking facts could be given. [1]
Lincoln, our most striking example, grew more between 1861 and 1865 than during all the earlier years of his life. [9]
He is a striking example of an author who is loved. [4]
He was a striking contrast in type to his square-cut and vigorous brother-in-law; very thin, with slightly protruding eyes the color of the faded blue glaze of ancient pottery, and yet humorous. [9]
The orderly was striking a light and Shcherbinin was fumbling for something on the candlestick. [2]
I wish to state, also, not as a correction, but as matter of opinion, that Mount Hermon is not a striking or picturesque mountain by any means, being too near the height of its immediate neighbors to be so. [5]
The fact of spiritualization produces results in striking contrast to the farce of materialization: the one produces the results of chastity and purity, the other the downward tendencies and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity. [5]
There are twenty-six species belonging to fifteen genera, which manifestly have their plumage coloured in a protective manner; and this colouring is all the more striking, as with most of these birds it differs from that of their congeners. [1]
She was dressed simply in a shirtwaist and a dark skirt, but Honora thought her striking looking. [9]
In the darkness shot shrieked hither and thither about us like demons, striking everywhere, sometimes sending casks of salt water over the nettings. [9]
At such moments she would turn to the typewriter, her fingers striking the keys with amazing rapidity, with extraordinary accuracy and force,--force vaguely disturbing to Mr. Claude Ditmar as he entered the office one morning and involuntarily paused to watch her. [9]
Well, of course, she is not striking after the fashion of Mrs. Falchion. [11]
In every way she formed a striking contrast to her friend, Miss Vincent. [6]
I have hardly seen anything which gave me a more striking proof of the thoroughness of the old English workmen. [6]
For striking instances, see bottom paragraph on page 34 and the paragraph on page 35 of her Autobiography. [5]
Last night the scenery was striking and picturesque. [5]
Some of these scars are of a very strange and dreadful aspect; and the effect is striking when several such accent the milder ones, which form a city map on a man's face; they suggest the "burned district" then. [5]
In fine, to return to our knowledge of the short life of fashions that are for the moment striking, why should we waste precious time in chasing meteoric appearances, when we can be warmed and invigorated in the sunshine of the great literatures? [4]
Their resemblance was rendered all the more striking by the fact that each wore a simple, narrow circlet of gold-round the head; nay it would have seemed some unusual trick of Nature's but that their eyes were quite unlike. [10]
But yours only remind me of his, for although there is a striking likeness, your humour is much finer than his, and far better expressed. [5]
Perhaps you didn't realize it, but my father was striking at me when he referred to your sermon, and spiritual control --and in other things he said when you were talking about the settlement-house. [9]
This similarity, or rather identity, is striking, when contrasted with the different expressions and cries made by distinct species of monkeys. [1]
Of course I put him off the track, but I did not count on striking you. [9]
No more striking proof of this fact can be cited than the modern experiment in prison reform in which hardened convicts, when "given a chance," frequently become useful citizens. [9]
It is altogether probable that there will happen two or three very striking coincidences out of the whole ninety cases, in which it would seem evident that the medicine produced the relief, though it had, as we assumed, nothing to do with it. [3]

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