Strikes

Examples

• With its sharp clear bell it strikes three quarters after seven and ticks on again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It strikes me as if it would do exactly. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• One of these is an imitation of the duck's foot, which expands when it strikes the water, and collapses when it is withdrawn. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• If I don't hear from you before the time you mention, I will break the seal when the clock strikes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You say he never strikes a blow. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But as long as they strikes out'ards, sir,' continued Sloppy, 'they ain't so much. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A sort of Byronic hero--an amorous conspirator, it strikes me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The sand after it strikes is carried off by a blast to some receptacle, from which it is returned to its former place for further use. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The wind strikes the sails, and causes rotation; and the stronger the wind blows, the faster will the wheel rotate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If the sunbeam strikes the mirror at an angle of 32° with the perpendicular, the path of the reflected ray also makes an angle of 32° with the perpendicular. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Let's try how ROBINSON CRUSOE strikes him now! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• When any object is presented, the idea of its usual attendant immediately strikes us, as something real and solid. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• How long do you give me, he asked, putting his third question in a quieter tone, before the clock strikes and the seal is broken? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If you do not hear from me, or see me, before that time, break the seal when the clock strikes, and read the contents. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I have known you, Mr. Rochester; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A piano gives out sound whenever a player strikes the keys and sets in motion the various wires within the piano; speech and song are caused by the motion of chest, vocal cords, and lips. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Richard, his face flushing suddenly, strikes the desk with his clenched hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• How often in great strikes have riots been started in order to prevent the public from listening to the workers' demands! Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A more hopeful man might imagine that a closer and more genial intercourse between classes might do away with strikes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Miss Crawley, Miss Rose Crawley, said Mr. Crawley, your laughter strikes me as being exceedingly out of place. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In these inspiring moments, Brewer strikes out an idea which is the great hit of the day. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It strikes me in that light; how does it strike you? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It strikes me rather as a hang-MAN air,' returned Eugene. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• If a mirror is held so that a ray of light strikes it in a perpendicular direction, the light is reflected backward along the path by which it came. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Water issues in a narrow jet similar to that of the ordinary garden hose and strikes with great force against the lower part of the wheel, thereby causing rotation of the wheel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• We answer strikes with bayonets, and make treason one of the rights of man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• An impression first strikes upon the senses, and makes us perceive heat or cold, thirst or hunger, pleasure or pain of some kind or other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It strikes me, Williamson, there isn't very much that we can tell this gentleman, cried Carruthers, with a bitter laugh. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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