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With one vigorous stroke of its fins, the voracious animal shot toward the Indian, who jumped aside and avoided the shark's bite but not the thrashing of its tail, because that tail struck him across the chest and stretched him out on the seafloor.
The sun, fairly low on the horizon, struck full force on the houses in this town, accenting their whiteness.
The hours struck too slowly to keep up with my impatience.
Suddenly the clock struck eight.
One sperm whale exterminated, it ran at another, tacked on the spot so as not to miss its prey, went ahead or astern, obeyed its rudder, dived when the cetacean sank to deeper strata, rose with it when it returned to the surface, struck it head-on or slantwise, hacked at it or tore it, and from every direction and at any speed, skewered it with its dreadful spur.
The ice struck superb poses.
Indeed, we had "struck bottom," to use nautical terminology, but in the opposite direction and at a depth of 3,000 feet.
The vegetation on this desolate continent struck me as quite limited.
"But what's wrong, my boy?""I've been dazzled, struck blind!"Involuntarily my eyes flew to the window, but I couldn't stand the fire devouring it.
The water struck me as unusually cold, but I warmed up promptly while wielding my pick.
The manatees let themselves be struck down without offering any resistance.
You would have thought Captain Nemo was courting a death worthy of himself, seeking to be struck by lightning.
Some were struck by lightning right before my eyes!
Soon after, an explosion struck my ears.
My head struck against an iron timber, and with this violent shock I lost consciousness.
He liked the granary and the stables; he liked old Rouault, who pressed his hand and called him his saviour; he like the small wooden shoes of Mademoiselle Emma on the scoured flags of the kitchen—her high heels made her a little taller; and when she walked in front of him, the wooden soles springing up quickly struck with a sharp sound against the leather of her boots.
But "the blow had struck home."
And when I thought that there were others at that very moment with their nice little wives holding them in their embrace, I struck great blows on the earth with my stick.
She struck the notes with aplomb, and ran from top to bottom of the keyboard without a break.
When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what she did not experience as of believing anything that did not present itself in conventional forms, she persuaded herself without difficulty that Charles's passion was nothing very exorbitant.
A smile rose to her lips at certain delicate phrases of the violin, that sometimes played alone while the other instruments were silent; one could hear the clear clink of the louis d'or that were being thrown down upon the card tables in the next room; then all struck again, the cornet-a-piston uttered its sonorous note, feet marked time, skirts swelled and rustled, hands touched and parted; the same eyes falling before you met yours again.
She chose the Viscount, and the violin struck up once more.
Six o'clock struck.
Then, picking up a catechism all in rags that he had struck with is foot, "They respect nothing!"
"I'm coming," he stammered; and it was the noise of a match Emma had struck to relight the lamp.
The meeting was over, the crowd dispersed, and now that the speeches had been read, each one fell back into his place again, and everything into the old grooves; the masters bullied the servants, and these struck the animals, indolent victors, going back to the stalls, a green-crown on their horns.
Under her window there was a beehive, and sometimes the bees wheeling round in the light struck against her window like rebounding balls of gold.
Midnight struck.
And they parted before the Saint-Herbland Passage just as the clock in the cathedral struck half-past eleven.
Four o'clock struck, and she rose to return to Yonville, mechanically obeying the force of old habits.
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