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Then everything fell back into darkness, pickaxes struck great hollow blows; one only heard panting chests, the grunting of discomfort and weariness beneath the weight of the air and the rain of the springs.
Now the drop struck his forehead so obstinately that he seemed to feel it piercing a hole in the bone of his skull.
Why?""Because I struck my chief."
Meanwhile, the manoeuvres went on in the shaft, the signal hammer had struck four blows, and the horse was being lowered; there was always excitement at such a time, for it sometimes happened that the beast was seized by such terror that it was landed dead.
Pierron, in spite of his mawkish face, struck his daughter Lydie, because she had left the cutting before time.
The clock below struck six.
Eight o'clock struck, and a growing murmur of chatter arose on the left, among the Levaque people.
Chapter 3ELEVEN o'clock struck at the little church in the Deux-Cent-Quarante settlement, a brick chapel to which Abbé Joire came to say mass on Sundays.
Midday struck; they heard the clogs of the children coming out of school.
One o'clock struck; it was the hour for coffee, and not a soul was to be seen at the doors or windows.
But three o'clock struck.
The clock struck seven; Henri and Lénore had just broken a plate in persisting in helping Alzire, who was laying the table, when Father Bonnemort came in first, in a hurry to dine and go back to the pit.
No doubt six o'clock had struck; landers, porters from the pit-eye, and grooms were going away in bands, mixed with the vague and laughing figures of the screening girls in the shade.
He defended himself, struck his chest, gave his word of honour.
Though older and stronger, he even allowed himself to be struck.
Eleven o'clock struck, and the odour of the rabbit, which was boiling with potatoes, was already filling the house when Zacharie and Jeanlin.
Six o'clock struck, twilight was already coming on, and they would do well to remove the corpse also; the engineer gave orders to harness the van and to bring a stretcher.
We, too, are cruelly struck.
"America, by ceasing to order iron, has struck a heavy blow at our furnaces.
Midday struck while they were at lunch, for the rendezvous was at one o'clock at the Avantage, from which they were to go together to M. Hennebeau's.
As they arrived, it struck two.
Then he cried:"Haven't you got any blood in your veins, by God?" At one moment he would have struck him, and to resist the temptation he rushed about the hall with long strides, venting his fury on the benches through which he made a passage.
He was indignant at being accused of wishing to bring everything to confusion out of ambition; he struck his chest, protesting his brotherly feelings.
The other man looked at him in fear, and thought of the stories of which he had received vague intimation, of charged mines beneath the tsar's palace, of chiefs of police struck down by knives like wild boars, of his mistress, the only woman he had loved, hanged at Moscow one rainy morning, while in the crowd he kissed her with his eyes for the last time.
As two o'clock struck Rasseneur entered, finishing his pipe at the counter, and chatting without haste.
When he reappeared he struck lightly with his fist to call for attention; then he began in a hoarse voice:"Citizens!"
As he had no bell he struck his fist on the table, repeating in his hoarse voice:"Citizens, citizens!"
When she found herself outside again, Maheude struck resolutely across the gardens towards Pierron's house.
At this moment crying was heard from the cellar, and she grew angry and struck her fist against the door.
Two o'clock struck as they set out.
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