It struck her that he was trying to gain time, that he wanted to tell her something.
It struckher that she had timed her visit a little too late.
It never struck her that Ernley would rather not be beholden to her, whatever Ellen might feel in the matter.
It struck Joanna that she might be able to get him a suit of livery secondhand.
He did not let himself think of her for an hour or more--the episode struckhim as grotesque and he preferred not to dwell on it.
Hasn't it ever struck you he's a bit like my Martin Trevor?
Alce struck him as a dull fellow, and he put down his faithfulness to the fact that having once fallen into love as into a rut he had lain there ever since like a sheep on its back.
She was not an anxious soul, and a man's illness never struck her as particularly alarming.
She wondered if he was enjoying this queer show, which struck her alternately as inexpressibly beautiful and inexpressibly vulgar.
Infusing his own spirit into his men, he struckthe hesitating foe at the decisive moment, and shattered them.
One of McClellan's five army corps had been disposed of, a heavy blow had been struck at the morale of his whole army, and his communications with the White House and the Pamunkey were at the mercy of his enemies.
The panic-struck boy by whom the orders were sent was seen no more.
Doubleday's division, struck fiercely in front and flank, reeled back in confusion past the Miller House, and although the gallant Starke fell dead, the Confederates recovered the ground which they had lost.
The next morning saw the armies in the same positions, and the Federal wounded, many of whom had been struck down nearly forty-eight hours before, still lying untended between the hostile lines.
The absence of Major Dabney, struck down by sickness, is a possible explanation of the faulty orders.
At last, however, Hunter and Heintzleman crossed Sudley Ford; and after marching a mile in the direction of Manassas Junction, the leading brigade struck Evans' riflemen.
Moving in a south-westerly direction, he had struck the Brook road, a narrow track which runs nearly due north, and crosses both the plank road and the pike at a point about two miles west of the Federal right flank.
When Jackson first mounted her a band struck up close by, and as she reared the girth broke, throwing her rider to the ground.
Steuart, with the 2nd and 6th Virginia, had struck Newton before noon, and found a convoy of waggons strung out on the Valley turnpike.
Taking instant advantage of the separation of the hostile columns, Jackson struck at Milroy, and having checked Fremont, returned to the Valley to find Banks retreating.
Mr. Stanton was so far right; but where the blow was to be struck he was absolutely unable to divine.
Ewell was struck down and Taliaferro, and many of their field officers, and still the Federals held their ground.
Pops was a veteran campaigner, and had slept in many a tent or bivouac in the Far West, so the quarters that struck his comrades as crowded were almost palatial to him.
It was the despatch signed by these officials and a dozen leading citizens—for McCrea struck while the iron was hot, and took the paper around himself—that caused Mr. Pierce to wire his pledge in reply.
The ninth day come, and we struck a small streak of good luck—a horse give out and broke down, plumb out in the centre of an open prairie—not a stick big enough to tickle a rattlesnake with, let alone killing him.
It was a most brilliant triumph for us; every voice, as we thought, though of course the malcontents must be excepted, struck in with us, and swelled the loud peal till the walls rung again.
Some on ’em hit the dogs—about a quart struck me, and the rest charged old Brindle.
But an idea struck me, then, that I’d stand a heap better chance a ridin’ the old bull than where I war.
When they had come in sight of Augusta, Bob struck a camp, and his master rode on into town.
Well, while I war settin’ thar, an idea struck me that I had better be a gettin’ out o’ this in some way.
I was so completely horror-struck that I stood transfixed for a moment to the spot where the cry met me.
I never was so struck all up in a heap afore—thar sot Mary with three or four more gals, butiful as a angel and blushin’ like a rose.
It struck me suddenly that her gayety was the same as that she had worn to my birthday party, scarce a year agone.
I'll warrant she is making Sir Charles see to his laurels, and young Stavordale is struck dumb.
Chagrined as I was at the interruption, I was struckwith admiration.
I have ever been slow of suspicion, but suddenly it struck me sharply that Mr. Manners's tactics must have a deeper significance than I had thought.
Even Dorothy was struckby the change the clothes had made in him.
Regaining my full senses, I struck the man nearest me a blow that sent him sprawling in the dirt.
Instead of the hard turf, his foot struck something soft, something which sat up suddenly with a yell.
At this moment the clock struck nine, and as each of the principals in this financial transaction, and both the witnesses, were expected to be in their places to answer their names at 8.
It struck me as curious, not to say remarkable, that such a man should have thirty shillings or more about him so late in the week.
The first match he struck promptly and naturally went out.
Nine had struckfrom the School clock, and the Great Hall was emptying.
As he reached earth again the clock struck a quarter to nine.
Jim lay awake until the College clock had struck three, going over in his mind the various points of his difficulties, on the chance of finding a solution of them.
But for the other, young Agnar, my heart was filled with pity; and so I disregarded the command of Odin and struck down Helm Gunnar in the fight, the victory thus going to Agnar.
The servants were much struck with the speed and skill with which this was done, and they all called out together to ask if the whetstone was for sale.
That same night youstruck with your hammer three great blows upon my head, the least of which would have made an end of me if it had hit me.
With a roar of rage like that of an angry lion, he seized a great stake that stood near and struck with all his might at the greedy bird.
And so hard did he fling the money that it struck out two of Helge's teeth, and he fell senseless on the floor.
But again Sigurd struck upon the anvil, and again the sword fell to pieces.
In connection with the Piers Plowman controversy, I have been struck with Mr. Jusserand's insistence that Chaucer did not touch upon social or political matters in his poems.
Anyone who will run thru the Lancashire Registers of this time will be struck with the immensity of the duke's income and the regal scale of his household.
It was a large ship; it was lifted a few cable lengths forward, then driven on towards the land, struck upon the inner sand-bank, and stood fast.
It was against this that Jörgen had struck himself when the current had driven him forward with sudden force.
The male young ones got into quarrels; struck each other with their wings; pecked at each other with their beaks, even until blood flowed.
And then they all struck on their shields, and thundered with their knives or their knuckle-bones on the table, so that they made a tremendous noise.
The very idea brought the warm blood rushing into his cheeks, and he struck the wall with his fist in his vain impatience.
It struck our young friend; and, slowly singing her farewell song, she sank like a dying swan down into the midst of the lake in the wood.
He struck a feeble blow on Monmouth, who raised his head from the block, and looked him in the face, as if reproaching him for his failure.
Each success added courage to the conquerors, and struck the vanquished with dismay.
Such were his last words: and these animated speeches he uttered with an accent and manner which struck all the bystanders with astonishment.
The juries were so struck with his menaces, that they gave their verdict with precipitation; and many innocent persons, it is said, were involved with the guilty.
While in this timorous, jealous disposition, the cry of a plot all on a sudden struck their ears: they were wakened from their slumber: and like men affrightened and in the dark, took every figure for a spectre.
He was so happy in a good constitution of body, and had ever been so remarkably careful of his health, that his death struck as great a surprise into his subjects as if he had been in the flower of his youth.
He gently laid down his head a second time; and the executioner struckhim again and again to no purpose.
Charles was struck with this menace, and foresaw how the prince's departure would be interpreted by the people.
This eagle isstruck from the same die as the preceding specimen, but it is in white metal rather than brass.
The specimen is struck in thin brass with a tin backing applied before the strike and the edges crimped over the reverse.
An 8-pointed, sunburst-type star, this plate is struck in brass and has a superimposed eagle that is struck in brass and silvered.
Made of tin-alloy, as is the original, and rectangular with clipped corners, the piece is dominated by an unusually fierce looking eagle that first appeared on one of the 1807 half-dollars struck at the Philadelphia Mint.
A matching oval shoulder-belt plate struck from the same die is known.
All arms were wearing cap plates by the middle of 1813, for there is record of such issue to the dragoons as well as record of rejection of ill-struck specimens for infantry, artillery, and rifles.
The blank metal was first struck by a die that formed the plain or floral border and cut the outline of the plate.
Struck in thin to medium brass, this plate is the familiar turreted castle of the Corps of Engineers so well known today.
This plate, struck in brass and bearing the eagle-on-cannon device, must be considered a stock pattern available to many organizations.
The plate is struck in rectangular brass, and the corners are marked for clipping.
With a single glance at Daphne he turned to Kaire [207] again, struck another match, lit another cigarette.
If men may be dupes of their imagination; if their senses are deceitful, how shall we believe the miracles, which struck the treacherous senses of our ancestors?
At the moment I hear a sound, the tympanum of my ear is struck by the air, put in motion by a sonorous body, which would not act if it were not in motion itself.
The peasant is not struck with the beauty of the sun, which he sees every day.
Their fetters were struck off; then the mutineers set off on a mad riot of destruction, burning houses, smashing furniture, massacring every white man and woman whom they met.
And having struck Ahmed across the face, he went away with the two men, and locked the door after him.
A bullet grazed his cheek, ploughing a red furrow through it, and carrying away the lobe of his ear; a spent bullet struck his brow, and he staggered half-unconscious to the ground.
And he was at last falling into the slumber of exhaustion when a slight sound struck upon his ear.
Hastening along the further bank for half-a-mile, he struck northward through the gardens on the outskirts of Sabzi Mandi, and just before dawn reached a picket of Irregular Native Cavalry.
A bullet struck Daly in the left shoulder, and he fell from his horse.
All at once, however, it struck him that the picket was unusually large, and being now a little suspicious, he ordered his men to unlimber and open upon the horsemen.
But a musket-ball struck him on the head, and he fell insensible into the ditch.
Dismounting, he struck a light with flint and steel, ignited his tinder, and, shielding it with his pagri, blew up a sufficient glow to throw a faint light on the road.
It struck him that, since the gates of Delhi must now be shut, he might well shelter for the night beneath the walls of the shrine.
Lieutenant Hawes was clipped across the face with a sword, Lieutenant Kennedy was wounded in the arm; and Captain Daly himself, after having his horse killed under him, was struck in the leg by a spent bullet.
Major Jacob, of the 1st Fusiliers, and six other officers werestruck down, and Captain Greville was withdrawing the men from what he deemed an impossible task.
He struck off, therefore, in the direction of Bahadurgurh, and was within seven miles of his destination when a heavy storm of rain came on, drenching him to the skin.
Ahmed was struckwith a sudden fancy: allowing for differences of dress, Rahmut must in his young manhood have borne a striking resemblance to this Feringhi.
The wall on the left of the house struck Jones as being practicable, and he noticed that none of the walls were spiked or glassed.
The Earl of Rochester's voice struckhim as not quite the same as usual, more spring in it and vitality--altered in fact.
He came into the verandah, found the front door which was closed, struck a match, found the bell, pulled and pulled it.
He had struck by accident on one of the alleviations of a major misery of civilized life, replying to Letters, and he felt like patenting it.
The brilliancy of the idea that had all at once struck him made him cast the paper from his knees to the floor.
When I saw you, as I stepped in, sitting quietly at supper the situation struck me at once.
The idiocy of the title had struck him vaguely at the moment and the impression had remained.
It struck him now so very forcibly that he laid down his spoon and stared before him, forgetful of the place where he was and the people around him.
What struck him more forcibly was a weird resemblance between them all, a phantom thing, a link undiscoverable yet somehow there.
The likeness had struckhim forcibly, never seen two gentlemen so like one another, dressed differently, but still like.
Then they struck into the road where the "Lucknows" and "Cawnpores" hinted of old Indian Colonels.
He attempts to escape, is struck or stabbed fatally, and rides home and dies.
Tradition says that Huntly was compelled by his followers to incriminate himself in the deed, and struck the dying Murray in the face, whereat the bonny Earl said, ‘You have spoiled a better face than your own.
And suddenly it struck her that ages had elapsed since her first interview with him in the office over the ironmonger's at Turnhill, and that both of them were extraordinarily changed.
These elderly ladies shot almost roguishly out of the drawing-room, and by their smiles struck the descending party into immobility.
In the commercial triumph she lost the sense of the tragic forlornness of boarding-house existence, as it had struck her on the day of her arrival.
It produced in her a grievous, horror- struck desolation; but it also gave her an extraordinary sensation of fervid pleasure.
She lowered the gas, and in the gloom gazed for a few seconds at the vague, huddled, sheeted, faintly moaning figure on the bed; the untidy grey hair against the pillow struck her as intolerably pathetic.
The contrasts of existence struck her as magnificent, as superb.
It was only the idea of being in the King's Road that had struck her--and with such an effect that her attention was happily diverted from her trouble, and her vexatious self-consciousness disappeared.
But the fact was that the Chichester had not yet struck her at all.
He struck a match at the edge of the porch, a pointed, orange exclamation on the impenetrable gloom.
The woman's bulk got in Jake's way, and he struck her across the eyes with the back of his hand, consigning her to eternal hell.
His foot struck against a chair, and his hand caught the back.
From the bog the frogs sounded like a continuously and lightly-struck xylophone.
Jake hit him with the club on the shoulder blade; numbness radiated from the struck point; there was a loss of power in the corresponding arm.
The place above his forehead, where he had been struck by the stone, was puckered and dark.
The arm dropped suddenly to his side, the fingers struck dully against the chair.
The forelegs rose with the impact of the blow, and the body struck full length upon the platform, where it lay dazed.
His arm struck the glass of shot, and, for a short space, there was a continuous sharp patter on the floor.
The dog hesitated, turned toward his master, when a heavy stick, whirling out of the press of men, struck the animal across the upper forelegs.
Struck at the onset in the shoulder by two carabine balls, he rode off before the action was ended by Hazeley towards Thame, finding it impossible to reach Pyrton, the home of his father-in-law.
Silent, the whole fleet's darling they bore to the twilight below: And above the war-thunder came shouting, as foe struck his flag after foe.
She struck her heels against her horse's sides, and went forward.
But, before he could make a reply, Meschines, who scented mischief in the air, and divined that the gentler sex must somehow be at the bottom of it, struck in.
A flying stone has struck him; but his heart beats: he will be well again.
He had met with many young ladies, sisters or relations of the boys under his father's care, and also among his own relations; but none had ever so struck him as Miss Armstrong.
The church clock struck seven, and presently, as he stood at a point a little beyond the battery from which royal salutes are now fired, he saw the Southampton steamer coming round a point of land at a little distance.
He paused not a moment, but struck out again towards the spot at which he had seen the young girl fall overboard.
At last one of Mr. Drummond's nieces approached the piano, at her aunt's request, and struck a few chords.
Arthur Franklyn, totally unmindful of her sympathy, escaped to his bedroom soon after the clock struck ten.
As they passed Englefield Grange the schoolroom clock struck five, and almost at the same moment Mary saw coming towards them in an opposite direction an invalid chair, which she knew belonged to Mrs. Halford.
The clock has struck nine, and I will get these boys into order while you are gone.
Dressing quickly, he descended to his sitting-room and found to his surprise that the clock had struck nine.
Here a loud and general exclamation vociferated from the parlour, struck the ears of the visitors--"A song, a song!
Irish gentleman on the bagpipes, that he ordered a medal to be struckfor him.
The other combatants, horror-struck at the direful conflict that arose between the twin brothers, suspended their own to interpose.
The court were struckwith infinite surprise at her singular appearance.
But he avoided the road that would take him through the main street of the little town, and struck into a series of country lanes that brought them by a detour to The Hut, without having to pass more than a solitary farmhouse.
A distant clock in the townstruck eight, nine, and ten and still Legros remained on his perch, toiling, with twisted body and arm crooked through the broken pane, in frantic endeavour to enlarge the opening.
He blinked in his efforts to pierce the gloom of the dim interior, and then with a muttered oath produced a box of wax matches and struck a light.
So he struck into the shrubbery, and on coming to the grotto unlocked the door with the key which Tuke had left in the keyhole.
Lowch even smiled in sickly fashion as he struck it.
At last the clock struck eleven, and before the half-hour the Frenchman slid nimbly to the floor.
A moment later Sinnett knocked and entered, and the man's usually imperturbable face, white and quivering, struck the keynote of danger.
He had to a nicety struckthe correct note for "drawing" Mademoiselle Louise.
The note is struck ingeniously and hilariously on the doorstep.
The young people quickly lost interest in the ship, and, turning aside, struck into the path traversed by Leslie Chermside and Levison on the morning of the preceding day.
Certainly not to be classed in that category was the winsome maiden, dressed in immaculate white flannel and carrying a tennis racquet, to whom Nugent raised his soft grey hat as the car struck into the main street.
Violet heard him mutter under his breath, and it struck the first note of vague, uncomprehended danger.
It would be best to be perfectly silent," her guide whispered as they struck across the greensward.
At that moment the lightning struck one of the bastions, and shook the mountain to its very base.
But Azrael struck fresh chords and began another song-- "False is the world and all that is therein!
With that the Pasha struck his spurs into his horse's sides, and galloped with his escort towards Bodola.
With these words she struck with her staff upon the stone slab, and immediately a lofty shape in a white winding-sheet rose up from behind the tomb.
At last they perceived, somewhere in the wood, a fire burning, and a monotonous chant struck upon their ears.
Beldi was struck by the youth's earnest tone, and on reaching the castle immediately took him aside into a private room, and there the young Beg handed him a parchment roll tied round with silken cord, and sealed with a yellow seal.
Soon a distant hubbub struck upon their ears, and when they had climbed to the top of a little hill, Banfi-Hunyad emerged before their eyes.
Under cover of the darkness, he rushed swiftly upon the nearest groom, gave him a buffet which brought the blood in streams from his nose and mouth, sprang upon one of the vacant horses, and struck the spurs into its flanks.
The next moment the Beg put his hand to his side, and not finding his sword there, rushed back with a howl of fury to his horse, threw himself like lightning into the saddle, and struck his sharp spurs into the flanks of his steed.
Nostrils flaring, the mighty beast raged forward and Tedric struck as he had never struck before.
Long before the fiery mass struck water his attention was seized by a long, low-pitched, moaning gasp from a multitude of throats; a sound the like of which he had never before even imagined.
Instead, they struck two full centuries of Sarlon's heaviest armor!
With the flat of his sword Phagon struck the steel-clad back a ringing blow.
Then, so rapidly that it seemed as though there must be at least two arrows in the air at once, arrow crashed on arrow; wood snapping as iron head struck feathered shaft.
I must say, I was struck this night with the resemblance between the Scotchman and the New Englander.
Our robin is probably some fourth cousin, who, like others, has struck out a new course for himself in America, and thrives upon it.
The Albion struck just round the left of the point, where the rock rises perpendicularly out of the sea.
The inscription struck me so much, that I got C---- to copy it in his memorandum book.
The idea struck me as so preposterous that I could not help an exclamation of surprise.
We were as much struck by it as an honest Yankee was in Paris by the proficiency of the children in speaking French.
It is said that the carpenter employed for the purpose was so struck with the noble workmanship, that he refused to touch it till the minister took the hatchet from his hand and gave the first blow.
They have a way here of building the cottages two or three in a block together, which struck me as different from our New England manner, where, in the country, every house stands detached.
The rude simplicity of thus arranging it on the polished floor of this magnificent apartment struck me as quite singular.
It looked very clear, but, on tasting, I found it so exceedingly bitter that it struck me there would be small virtue for me in abstinence.
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