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Example sentences for "struck him"

  • And I struck him in the throat above the breastbone.

  • It struck him as so very true that he did not say anything.

  • At that time I struck him with my arrow through the wrist and that made him lame.

  • As I struck him he moved backward and I shot him twice through the breast, with two arrows; then I threw away the arrows and struck him on the head with my bow, knocking him senseless.

  • When I struck him he looked at me and I found that his nose had been cut off.

  • I know not how it struck him, but he went down, his last word a shriek, his arms flung out in vain effort to ward off the blow.

  • I struck him with a chair; he lies there on the deck.

  • The change, for Darrow, was less definable; but, perhaps for that reason, it struck him as more sharply significant.

  • Even in his first moment of exasperation it struck him as characteristic that she should not have padded her postponement with a fib.

  • He tried it again the day he gave my uncle the gold, but I struck him with a stick, and got away.

  • The Missioner was fully dressed, and as the fire burned brighter David could see the ruddy glow of his face, and it struck him that it looked singularly boyish in the flame-glow.

  • The same flash which struck you down, struck him dead.

  • He had stabbed his cousin Frank three times, sir, before Amyas, who is as noble a lad as walks God's earth, struck him down.

  • His lance struck me in the crest, and bore me over my horse's croup: but mine, senors, struck him full in the vizor.

  • Even dying, Kent could not fail to see the funny side of a thing It struck him as suddenly as had the girl's beauty and her bewildering and unaffected ingenuousness.

  • Her hair, wreathed in shimmering, velvety coils from the back to the crown of her head, struck him as it had struck O'Connor, as unbelievable.

  • For a long time he lay thinking about her, and it struck him as incongruous and in bad taste that fate should have left this adventure for his last.

  • It struck him that if he could win a few thousands by a run of luck, he would have more than enough to try his fortune in the building speculations of which Del Ferice had talked.

  • But the words she spoke, in her clear, distinct tones, struck him like a blow unawares.

  • But none the less some of his memories seemed to wear at present a rather graceless and sordid mien, and it struck him that if he had never done anything very ugly, he had never, on the other hand, done anything particularly beautiful.

  • It struck him as a theme for the moralist; but he had no time to moralize upon it.

  • As for Madame de Cintre's conduct, it struck him with a kind of awe, and the fact that he was powerless to understand it or feel the reality of its motives only deepened the force with which he had attached himself to her.

  • The gentleman offered Newman a frank, friendly greeting, and our hero then perceived him to be the young man who had spoken to him in the court of the hotel on his former visit and who had struck him as a good fellow.

  • Having fully made up his mind to attempt to get away from the Apaches at the very first opportunity which he could seize, it struck him that he might help himself by engaging in a piece of deception, justifiable under the circumstances.

  • It struck him as curious that none of the warriors appeared to note his presence, but he knew better than to believe that such apparent blindness was real.

  • It struck him at once that it would be a good plan to climb into this, and ensconce himself among the branches.

  • It struck him in the neck and stretched him on the plain.

  • Placing a ladder against the wall, he mounted, but Jupiter, offended at his impious language, struck him with a thunderbolt.

  • And aiming his javelin at one of the leaders of the troop, struck him in the back and stretched him on the plain with a death-blow.

  • I will wire--" he paused; it struck him like a blow that there was only one person to whom to wire.

  • It struck him, as he stepped into a carriage to drive down to Shanty town, that such an attitude of mind on his part was pathetic for them both.

  • Elizabeth exclaimed, with angry impatience, and Robert Ferguson, chuckling, struck him lightly on the shoulder.

  • Bill amused himself by flinging clods at the colt, which jumped wildly each time one struck him, his body quivering, his eyes white and distended.

  • And then it struck him with a great sense of pity that the night was cold.

  • And then it struck him with a sense of guilt that his mind was wandering from her, and he turned away from the window.

  • But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Still it struck him that it was not likely to be one of the pirates.

  • He looked at him several times, till at length it struck him that it must be the very man who had guided him to Pearson's farm in the fens--Ned Burdale.

  • As Jack glanced at his companion, it struck him that he had seen him before, but where, or under what circumstances, he in vain attempted to discover.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    compulsory labour; considerable difference; divine mission; divine principle; eight bells; good action; government office; homme qui; immediate command; improved methods; keep cool; knowing that; long discussion; many letters; naval warfare; nine cents; other causes; passive voice; said about; struck down; struck him; struck the; that means; water bath