Felled

Examples

• I opened my mouth to scream, but he struck me a savage blow with his fist over the eye, and felled me to the ground. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• To supply this number of sleepers, 300,000 trees were felled, the growth of which would require little less than 5,000 acres of forest land. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The Friar bared his brawny arm up to the elbow, and putting his full strength to the blow, gave the Knight a buffet that might have felled an ox. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The forests were felled, and the tree-tops removed and made into charcoal for use in the glass works of Bohemia. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There they were yonder, by the felled tree. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The bayou was grown up with timber, which the enemy had felled into the ditch. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have lain in prison for security, with the place of my confinement kept a secret, lest I should be torn out of it and felled by a hundred blows. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Pivoting on my left toe, I swung a terrific right to his jaw, and, like a felled ox, he dropped in his tracks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Why, even I, a midget beside him, felled him with a single blow of my fist. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Vast sections of it have been cleared, for this is the seat of the first iron-works of the country, and the trees have been felled to smelt the ore. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We had one favourite spot, deep in moss and last year's leaves, where there were some felled trees from which the bark was all stripped off. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But just at that moment a heavy object smote me a resounding whack between my shoulders that nearly felled me to the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They went to the river to break the ice, and draw water: they assembled on foraging expeditions, or axe in hand felled the trees for fuel. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A huge black, standing directly before him, lunged backward as though felled by an invisible hand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They were felled not by a number of fighting men, but by a single opponent. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But is felled flat by Fledgeby's taking it quite ill, and replying, No, he don't like town. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Besides, there had been no altercation; the assailant had come in so silently and suddenly, that she had been felled before she could look round. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Here and there old trees had been felled the autumn before; or a squatter's roughly-built and decaying cottage had disappeared. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Edited by Erna