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Struck in sentence

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Suddenly she struck her brow and uttered a cry; for the thought of Rodolphe, like a flash of lightning in a dark night, had passed into her soul.
And she threw the two links away from her, their gold chain breaking as it struck against the wall.
The church clock struck two.
First, the old fellow had fallen as if struck by apoplexy.
He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
Then Bournisien took the spade handed to him by Lestiboudois; with his left hand all the time sprinkling water, with the right he vigorously threw in a large spadeful; and the wood of the coffin, struck by the pebbles, gave forth that dread sound that seems to us the reverberation of eternity.
For instance that sawmill whose curious position on the bank of the Doubs struck you as you entered Verrieres, and on which you noticed the name _Sorel_, inscribed in huge letters on a board which overtops the roof, occupied, six years ago, the ground on which at this moment they are building the wall of the fourth terrace of M. de Renal's gardens.
His father who had stepped down not wishing to take the trouble to climb up again on to the machine, went to find a long pole used for knocking down walnuts, and struck him on the shoulder with it.
He trembled when a pleasant voice sounded close to his ear:'What have you come for, my boy?'Julien turned sharply round, and, struck by the charm of Madame de Renal's expression, forgot part of his shyness.
It was at this moment only, when her anxiety for her children was completely banished, that Madame de Renal was struck by Julien's extreme good looks.
Although greatly moved himself, he was struck by the icy coldness of the hand he was clasping; he pressed it with convulsive force; a last attempt was made to remove it from him, but finally the hand was left in his grasp.
Midnight had long since struck; at length it was time to leave the garden: the party broke up.
Julien appeared, snatched the box, without thanking her, without saying a word, and ran into his bedroom, where he struck a light and immediately destroyed it.
Before leaving the little cave, Julien struck a light and carefully destroyed all that he had written.
He was struck by the extreme uneasiness with which Madame de Renal listened to the short account of his journey, for which she had asked him.
Julien was struck by her quavering voice and by the look in her eyes.
He wearied his brain in devising clever stratagems; a moment later, he felt them to be absurd; he was in short extremely wretched, when two struck from the clock tower.
In the surprise that he felt at so extraordinary a token of affection, he gazed at her with passion; for she had struck him as looking very pretty at luncheon, and, without raising his eyes, he had spent his time making a detailed catalogue of her charms.
As one o'clock struck, he slipped quietly from his room, made sure that the master of the house was sound asleep, and appeared before Madame de Renal.
The collector of taxes had struck up a royalist ditty.
He rose gravely as six o'clock struck and mentioned a chapter of the new theology of Liguori, which he had to learn by heart in order to repeat it next day to M. Chelan.
One thing struck Julien; as he conveyed to Madame de Renal the terrible news of his departure, he was met with no selfish objection.
Suddenly a storm broke, the thunder growled, and the saintly student exclaimed, thrusting him rudely away:'Listen, each for himself in this world, I have no wish to be struck by lightning: God may blast you as an infidel, another Voltaire.'
The seminarists, like young men in every profession, exaggerated the effect of these little stratagems when they were out of the ordinary and struck the imagination.
As he finished speaking, the quarter before twelve struck, at once the big bell began to toll.
While he was reading, Julien, struck by his good looks, had time to examine him.
The prelate quoted a number of odes, but at times his memory began to fail him, and immediately Julien would recite the entire ode, with a modest air; what struck the Bishop was that Julien never departed from the tone of the conversation; he said his twenty or thirty Latin verses as he would have spoken of what was going on in his Seminary.
He was greatly struck by the contrast when he set eyes once more on the sombre abbe Pirard, who awaited him with growing impatience.
But eight o'clock had struck, the house was full of noise.
The descendant of Henri III's friend struck him at first as cutting but a poor figure.
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