Stricken

Examples

• She saw clearly enough the whole situation, yet she was fettered: she could not smite the stricken soul that entreated hers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The smile that played on Mr. Pickwick's features was instantaneously lost in a look of the most unbounded and wonder-stricken surprise. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• One King, holding the curse in light estimation, made the attempt, but was stricken sorely for his presumption. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They had lounged away in a poverty-stricken, purposeless, accidental manner, quite natural and unimpeachable. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The professor had been stricken dumb with surprise by the rapid developments of the past few minutes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• My dear,' said Mrs Lammle, always laughing in her most captivating way, 'the poor young fellow only says that he is stricken all of a heap. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You know how wilful your poor, misery-stricken sister is. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His looks frightened the ambassador, who after looking guiltily for a little time at the grief-stricken man, hurried away without another word. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He had been stricken down so in a moment, in the flower and strength of his youth! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Dusk The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They spoke little, and that in whispers, and were as silent and awe-stricken as if the remains of the murdered woman lay in the next room. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Gradually, as she goes on, I feel, with a stricken heart, that she is speaking of herself as past. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If perchance some stricken Asiatic come among us, plague dies with him, uncommunicated and innoxious. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was long after dark ere they reached the cabin, and a sad and grief-stricken party it was that sat silently within the little structure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• If ever child were stricken with sincere grief, I was. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If you hear of Lady Dedlock, brilliant, prosperous, and flattered, think of your wretched mother, conscience-stricken, underneath that mask! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was evident that he had been summoned rather for the moral support of the stricken ladies than because of any specific aid that he could render. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Since her last conversation with Mrs. Weston and Mr. Knightley, she was more conscience-stricken about Jane Fairfax than she had often been. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was a sorely stricken man who lay before us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Behind us we left the stricken city in the fierce and brutal clutches of some forty thousand green warriors of the lesser hordes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I was panic-stricken at his words, and could not look at him without trembling. Plato. The Republic.
• The gloom-stricken old father was still more borne down by his fate and sorrow. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Take away his gun,' cried Mr. Pickwick from the barrow, horror-stricken at the long man's dark insinuations. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for someone at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The multitude of doubtful faces (a little conscience-stricken) brightened at the sound, and took it up. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• She stopped in the passage, with the look of a woman whose mind was panic-stricken. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You see before you, Mr. Ladislaw, a man who is deeply stricken. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The drawn blinds and the smokeless chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight of this horror still lay heavy upon it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Maternity must forth to the streets, to the herb-makers and bakers'-queues; meets there with hunger-stricken Maternity, sympathetic, exasperative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her eyes were dark and soft and unfolded, with a stricken look that roused him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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