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Sentences starting with struck

Struck in 'n' p'dooced mo't'f'cation,--so they say. [6]
Struck it, eh? [5]

Sentences ending with struck

I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point, but really I had no idea what a gold-mine I had struck. [5]
As for me--each word burnt a hole in me where it struck. [5]
It's the biggest thing you ever struck. [4]
It's the beatenest thing I ever struck. [5]
As she spoke, the little silver hammer softly struck. [11]
His voice, towards the end of his speech, had trembled with passion--a true note had been struck. [9]
If they warn't the beatenest lot, them two frauds, that ever I struck. [5]
You wouldn't have struck? [9]
Now the ship struck. [11]
Suddenly a shape sprang out of the grey mist, and the Maid of Provence struck. [11]

Short sentences using struck

He had struck the summit. [5]
Presently a clock struck twelve. [9]
A happy thought struck me. [9]
And then something struck me. [5]
Then the Chevalier struck home. [11]
Suddenly a thought struck him. [6]
Now an idea struck him. [5]
Then a thought struck her. [4]
A new idea struck her. [10]
A bargain was soon struck. [11]

Sentences containing struck two or more times

You cannot have this man except over my body: and for my body every one of you will pay with your lives; for every blow struck this night, there will be a hundred blows struck upon the river-drivers and mill-hands of this valley. [11]
The man in the window had been his lifelong enemy: more than this, Jethro Bass, was not like ordinary men--his ways were enshrouded in mystery, and when he struck, he struck hard. [9]
She had not struck it full on, or she would have crumpled up, but had struck and glanced, mounting the berg, and sliding away with a small gaping wound in her side, broken internally where she had been weakest. [11]
The boat struck on the lower shoulder of the short pier as she swung around in the splash door; then as she went on around she struck the point or end of the pier, where she rested. [7]
It struck him in the shoulder, and quivered where it struck, but he drew it out and threw it down. [11]
The spear that had struck Barre would have struck Shorland had he not bent backward when he did. [11]
The Great Idea had struck a million Bible-readers before her as being possible of resurrection and application--it must have struck as many as that, and been cogitated, indolently, doubtingly, then dropped and forgotten--and it could have struck her, in due course. [5]
What was the difference between a sword and a good sharp tooth save that the sword struck and let go and the tooth struck and held on? [11]
This romantic, picturesque, buoyant figure of youth struck her as the rock was struck by Moses; and for the first time in all her days she was wholly alive. [11]
Then he struck, and struck hard. [11]

More example sentences with the word struck in them

A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
You make up your mind that the earthquake is due; you stand from under, and take hold of something to steady yourself, and the first thing you know you get struck by lightning. [5]
Hasn't it struck you, Fersen, that unless a man has a voice and an interest in the industry in which he works his voice, and interest in the government for which he votes is a mockery? [9]
Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
Only I thought you had struck out a new idea, and invented a scheme that was going to revolutionize the timeworn and ineffectual methods of the--" He stopped, and turned to Blake, who was happy now that another had taken his place on the gridiron. [5]
Janet's heart was wrung as she gazed at the gaunt, bewildered faces growing daily more tragic, more bewildered and gaunt; she marvelled at the animal-like patience of these Europeans, at the dumb submission of most of them to privations that struck her as appalling. [9]
The persons struck would respond, and inside of five minutes every man would be locked in a death-grip with his neighbour. [5]
And the viper would fasten on his hand--it had fastened on his hand, and he had struck it off; but it would come again, the dark thing against which he had fought in the desert. [11]
Your exposition was worthy of an antique sage, and it struck me--for the sake of Rufinus here I will not say convinced me. [10]
The afternoon had worn away into a beautiful evening, when they arrived at a point where the road made a sharp turn and struck across a common. [12]
This fragment of wood which I now exhibit to you struck him. [5]
He soon struck wood that sounded hollow. [5]
Flying bits of wood struck Venters, and the hot, stinging pain seemed to lift him in one leap. [13]
This was the woman whom the world thought composed; who had triumphed over its opposition, compelled it to bow before her; who presented to it that self-possessed, unified personality by which he had been struck at their first meeting. [9]
When they were within fifteen yards, I sent that bomb with a sure aim, and it struck the ground just under the horses' noses. [5]
Freedom is lost with too much responsibility and seriousness, and the truth is more likely to be struck out in a lively play of assertion and retort than when all the words and sentiments are weighed. [4]
Rumour reported that, with the huge sword he wielded, he had dealt from his powerful charger blows as terrible as those inflicted five-and-twenty years before when, not far from the same spot, he struck Archelaus on the head. [10]
One is struck with the fact that a great number of fragments lie about his poetical workshop: poems begun and never finished; scraps of poems, chips of poems, paving the floor with intentions never carried out. [6]
She was struck with the excited look of Euthymia, being herself quite calm, and contemplating her project with entire complacency. [6]
And I promised, with my hand on my heart, that if all who felt no enmity toward me would come forward and pass before me they should see that only those who remained behind would be struck dead. [5]
This struck me with horror, till, all at once, he let her go, and I saw her face. [11]
Adrian hurried home with his vial, and in his joy at bringing the sick lady relief, forgot her headache and struck the knocker violently against the door. [10]
There she is, with her hand in her pocket, though,--and sure enough, her little bit of silver tinkled as it struck the coin beneath. [6]
He was struck with her conventional delicacy and honour on one side, and the limitation of her ideas on the other. [11]
Longueil sprang forward with a cry of rage, but a spent ball struck him. [11]
Howells wrote: "I wish you could understand how unshaken you are, you old tower, in every way; your foundations are struck so deep that you will catch the sunshine of immortal years, and bask in the same light as Cervantes and Shakespeare. [5]
His faculties were wholly unprepared for the blow she struck him. [9]
She struck those who saw her by her fullness of life and beauty, combined with her indifference to everything about her. [2]
And Nelson Langmaid, who had fallen into the habit of dropping into Hodder's rooms in the parish house on his way uptown for a chat about books, had been struck by the rector's friendship with the banker. [9]
One with a white plume in his hat seemed familiar to Rostov; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which Rostov fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. [2]
Sometimes moaning, sometimes whistling, the gusts of the hurricane drove the water and the travellers before it, while the rain poured from the sky to the earth, and wherever it struck splashed upward, making little whirlpools and swiftly breaking bubbles. [10]
I was struck, while waiting there, with what seemed to me a great want of care for the safety of the people standing round. [6]
It was lively while it lasted," she added, with a sigh: "I've struck the down trail. [9]
Sometimes she sings while at her work, and we have all been struck with the pure, musical character of her voice. [6]
The first thing which struck me was that the pictures had been rearranged in such a way that I could find nothing in the place where I looked for it. [6]
The church-tower on which it had once stood erect had been struck by a German shell, but its steel rod had bent and not broken. [9]
An interval, during which Hodder was suddenly struck with this designation of himself. [9]
In the battle which he had commenced he must not shrink from wounds, and he was struck by many a poisoned shaft. [10]
In the interval which followed, the music from the other room struck upon the ears of both, with exasperating insistence: "Not like the roses shall our love be, dear--" Stafford made no motion to return the letter. [11]
It struck me when you were talking to Mr. Bentley the other day. [9]
Sixty days hence, when they are called to deliver the goods, they will think they've been struck by lightning. [5]
She arrived just when the clock struck noon in the big living-room of the Manor. [11]
The second match, when struck, would shine and smell, and fizz a little, and then go out. [4]
Who ever inquires what manner of youths they were; and whether they slept with Jesus, played with him and romped about him; quarreled with him concerning toys and trifles; struck him in anger, not suspecting what he was? [5]
Something pregnant in what I said had struck home, yet I could not guess then what it was, though afterwards it came to me with great force and vividness. [11]
We struck out westward or northwestward from Calcutta on an itinerary of a zig-zag sort, which would in the course of time carry us across India to its northwestern corner and the border of Afghanistan. [5]
Those standing by were struck with a kind of awe; they were used mostly to the daughters of habitants and fifty-acre farmers. [11]
The two men were standing by the window, facing one another, in an attitude that struck her as dramatic. [9]
But their prayers were brief, for the tumult came nearer and nearer; Apollodorus wrung his hands, and struck his fist against his forehead; his movements were violent--spasmodic. [10]
But as she went on her way his altered appearance struck her anew, and she wondered what had happened. [4]
The afternoon had well advanced when Venters struck the trail of the red herd and found where it had grazed the night before. [13]
The first thing we struck that day was a procession of pilgrims. [5]
From St. Nicholas we struck out for Visp--or Vispach--on foot. [5]
From the time we first struck the Bras d'Or for thirty miles we rode in constant sight of its magnificent water. [4]
And now, as we emerged from Frederick, we struck at once upon the trail from the great battle-field. [6]
Once on its way again, Willy Welsh and his silver-cornet band struck up the hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light. [11]
But what I was thinking of was this--it struck me just as I was going out of the door: Didn't you tell me Lindau knew forty or fifty, different languages? [8]
What struck him was that Denisov did not seem glad to see him, and smiled at him unnaturally. [2]
Now when I was studying for the ministry there were two or three things that struck my attention particularly. [5]
Presently a match was struck, and Elise came forward with a candle raised level with her dusky head. [11]
Suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. [2]
A British captain was struck by a cannon-ball on the head, just as he was giving an order, at the Battle of the Nile. [6]
At first she was so struck with terror that she could not move. [11]
Sometimes, when all was quiet, and the clock from the distant cathedral of Granada struck the midnight hour, I have sallied out on another tour and wandered over the whole building; but how different from my first tour! [4]
Tom's "real Barlow" was out at once, and he had not dug four inches before he struck wood. [5]
And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew's lack of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a sign of strength. [2]
But no, she was ignorant, poor thing, and did not know what a blow she had struck for life and liberty. [5]
If any surrendering was done, it would be to the noble Maid of Vaucouleurs, already famed and formidable though she had not yet struck a blow. [5]
And so he was cleaned out as you may say, and he struck the home-trail, cheerful but flat broke. [5]
If the drawing was bad, Margaret knew it; if a false note was struck, she saw it. [4]
Chagrined as I was at the interruption, I was struck with admiration. [9]
Yes, ma'm, court was adjourned some strange an' quick, much as if lightnin' hed struck the meetin'-house. [13]
And yet there was a period during which he pursued his shrunken duties as though nothing had happened to him; as a man who has been struck in battle keeps on, loath to examine, to acknowledge the gravity of his wound; fearing to, perhaps. [9]
They had been warned that the river Indians were as ferocious and pitiless as the river demon, and destroyed all comers without waiting for provocation; but no matter, Joliet and Marquette struck into the country to hunt up the proprietors of the tracks. [5]
As Janet's glance wandered down the line it was arrested by the face of a man in a visored woollen cap--a face that was almost sepia, in which large white eyeballs struck a note of hatred. [9]
It struck the wall over Harris's head and fell down on him; I had not imagined I could throw so far. [5]
These are the voices which struck the key-note of my conceptions as to what the sounds we are to hear in heaven will be, if we shall enter through one of the twelve gates of pearl. [6]
Jack, whose cheerful voice was a little of the cider-cellar order, and who never sang when he was sad, struck up the latest vaudeville ditty, and Carmen and Miss Tavish joined in the chorus. [4]
There was no voice of rebuke; but there were averted eyes; there was a silence and an air of solemnity that struck a chill to the culprit's heart. [5]
Last week in Vienna a hailstorm struck the prodigious Central Cemetery and made wasteful destruction there. [5]
Susy Clemens, never very strong, had been struck down. [5]
As for Dudley Veneer, Mr. Bernard could not help being struck by the animated expression of his countenance. [6]
His dignified gravity vanished in a moment; he laughed aloud, struck his forehead merrily, seized the hand of the astonished captain, and said: "Should you be glad, if Bartja could be saved? [10]
The older Herr Van der Does clapped Peter on the shoulder and then struck the palm of his hand with his fist, as if to say: "I won't question that! [10]
But none struck us, and presently all fell short. [11]
Fumbling in the upper drawer for a pair of white gloves (also new), she knocked off the corner of the bureau her velvet bag; it opened as it struck the floor, and out of it rolled a lilac vanity case and a yellow coin. [9]
We struck hands upon that, and said it was settled. [5]
Presently he came upon a mounted messenger of the enemy; he struck him down from his horse, flung himself into the saddle, and rushed on towards the camp; as if he were riding to his wedding. [10]
He drew himself up to a sitting posture, but his head struck a curved stone ceiling. [11]
While he marched up the steps of the Grand Stand, the choir struck up,-- "The whole wide heaven groans, And waits to hear that voice. [5]
When she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. [2]
He therefore waited until the enemies of the Union struck the first blow. [7]
Rostov was therefore unpleasantly struck by the presence of French officers in Boris' lodging, dressed in uniforms he had been accustomed to see from quite a different point of view from the outposts of the flank. [2]
There was an unpleasant little episode that day, which for reasons of state I struck out of my priest's report. [5]
He keeps himself undefiled and separate--" suddenly the prelate paused and struck his hand on the back of a chair that stood by him. [10]
Then the cruel, tyrannical baton struck the wood a second time, and---- But what did this mean? [10]
Then, when the Two Strange People had been struck with panic, the Syrian donkey- market, and the five hundred feddans of American cotton, and the new schools would be his for a song--or a curse. [11]
Something in the two men, some vibration of temperament, struck the same chord in Junia's life and being. [11]
The clock struck two as he wrote the date, as though to remind him that he had written it wrong. [9]
The clock struck twelve, the nurse told me, as he drew his last breath, and then, without any known cause, stopped, with both hands upon the hour. [6]

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