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Five o'clock struck; the twilight was already coming on.
He came down from the tree-trunk, with no strength to go on, struck to the heart.
He scarcely understood, with head heavy and dazed with sleep, and the great cold struck him like an icy douche.
It seemed to her that she was one of the little putter-girls of old days, and that a fragment of coal, fallen from the basket above her, had thrown her to the bottom of the shaft, like a sparrow struck by a flint.
Afterwards he went up to the engine, and looked at the crank, which was motionless, like the joint of a colossal limb struck by paralysis.
Then he went down to the boiler-room, walked slowly before the extinguished stoves, yawning and inundated, and struck his foot against the boilers, which sounded hollow.
Two were struck, another left the sleeve of his jacket behind.
But three o'clock had struck, the ascent was completed, not a man remained below.
Men unharnessed the horses, which were frightened and set off, struck in the haunches; while others, overturning the wagon, broke the shafts.
It was white with a thick layer of ice; and they struck it and broke the ice, forcing him to dip his head in this cold water.
Suddenly she leapt forward, struck him with both her woman's hands, and choking with indignation shouted into his face:"Coward!
He recognized it; it was struck, by his orders, when the postman arrived.
The fury of impotence threw him on to the bed, which he struck with his fists, belabouring the places where he saw the imprint of their two bodies, enraged with the disordered coverlets and the crumpled sheets, soft and inert beneath his blows, as though exhausted themselves by the embraces of the whole night.
Five o'clock struck, and they had time to wait until the street was free for them to cross the road to dine with the Hennebeaus, where Cécile, who had surely returned, must be waiting for them.
How ridiculous to have struck that bed with his fists!
The brawlers were silent, and stones no longer struck the house; one only heard deep, full blows, those blows of the hatchet which one hears in distant woods.
If he could not see, he could now hear, and he followed the attack with ringing ears; every blow struck him in the heart.
Then the recollection that his certificate had been given back to him struck him to the heart.
Suddenly, in this heavy silence of an over-heated room, three light quick blows struck against one of the windowpanes made Souvarine turn his head.
She drank, but with so trembling a hand that the two glasses struck together with a tinkling sound.
In fact his fist, working like a flail, had struck his adversary's shoulder.
Eleven o'clock struck at the church.
Only one at last remained, torturing him and fatiguing him with a question to which he could not reply: Why had he not struck Chaval when he held him beneath the knife?
Two o'clock struck, and the loud noise of voices was coming from the captains' room, where the guards who watched over the pit were posted.
Six o'clock struck, and the earthy sky was growing pale and lighting up with a reddish dawn, when the Abbé Ranvier came along a path, holding up his cassock above his thin legs.
Oh, that was well struck!
Fortunately they struck too high, and the wall was riddled.
A stone having bounded back and struck the old soldier with the stripes beneath the belly, his cheeks turned green, and his weapon trembled as he stretched it out at the end of his lean arms.
Bébert and Lydie had fallen one on top of the other at the first three shots, the little girl struck in the face, the boy wounded beneath the left shoulder.
Maheu, struck in the heart, turned round and fell with his face down into a puddle black with coal.
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