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With a nervous movement the captain had taken off and then put on his cap, struck by a stone; he preserved his pallid stiffness in face of the disaster of his life, while his men with mute faces were reloading.
Old Bonnemort was near the cold fireplace, nailed to his chair ever since two neighbours, on the day of the slaughter, had found him on the ground, with his stick broken, struck down like an old thunder-stricken tree.
He had just been struck on the left arm, and was drawing back, in great peril, when he found himself hemmed in against the front of the Avantage.
His smiling face struck the guests.
Nine o'clock struck at the Montsou steeple; and his companion having said that he was going to bed, he added, without putting out his hand:"Well, good-bye.
Now and then he stopped, he counted the hours that struck afar.
Three o'clock struck.
Négrel, down below, himself struck three blows, at long intervals.
In a fury, Zacharie struck in his turn, and listened anew with bright eyes, and limbs trembling with joy.
It now rang very clearly with a musical sonority, as though struck on the plates of a harmonica.
Every time that a pikeman was relieved, Négrel went down and struck, then applied his ear; and every time, so far, the reply had come, rapid and urgent.
The coal was becoming closer and harder, to such an extent that they now with difficulty struck through two metres.
They struck their heels on the earth as on a stepmother who was killing her children at random in the imbecile whims of her cruelty.
They had no pity for the father, that brigand, that slayer of soldiers, who had to be struck down like a wolf.
But when the Grégoires alighted with the parcels, they knocked in vain; at last they struck their fists against the door, still without reply; the house echoed mournfully, like a house emptied by grief, frozen and dark, long since abandoned.
She struck, beating the miner's call; and they listened and again distinguished the three blows far off.
The fractures of the coal struck into their spines, and they felt at the back of their necks a fixed intense pain, through having to keep constantly bent in order to avoid striking their heads.
On the seventh day Catherine was bending down to drink, when her hand struck some floating body before her.
"You struck me once.
Eight o'clock had just struck.
It consisted of turtle soup made from the daintiest hawksbill, a red mullet with white, slightly flaky flesh, whose liver, when separately prepared, makes delicious eating, plus loin of imperial angelfish, whose flavor struck me as even better than salmon.
"But it seems to me that in this semidarkness, amid this liquid that's so dense in comparison to the atmosphere, a gunshot couldn't carry far and would prove fatal only with difficulty!""On the contrary, sir, with this rifle every shot is fatal; and as soon as the animal is hit, no matter how lightly, it falls as if struck by lightning."
I recognized the lower slopes of some magnificent rocks carpeted by the finest zoophyte specimens, and right off, I was struck by an effect unique to this medium.
This forest was made up of big treelike plants, and when we entered beneath their huge arches, my eyes were instantly struck by the unique arrangement of their branches--an arrangement that I had never before encountered.
A shot went off, I heard a faint hissing, and an animal dropped a few paces away, literally struck by lightning.
That day it was yuletide, and it struck me that Ned Land badly missed celebrating "Christmas," that genuine family holiday where Protestants are such zealots.
The Nautilus had just struck a reef, and it remained motionless, listing slightly to port.
"I've been struck by a lightning bolt!"
"The Nautilus suffered a collision that cracked one of the engine levers, and it struck this man.
This struck me as a pretty needless question, to say the least.
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