He at once cancels the celebrations and, buckling on his scimitar, stumbles blindly from the house, where he is hit and killed by a passing oxcart.

A trained marksman shooting five rounds at a target, all under practically the same conditions, may hit the bull's-eye from 0 to 5 times.

He got hit from the blind side by the split end coming back on the second play of the game.

The Texans made themselves a comforting break on the opening kickoff when Denver's Al Carmichael was jarred loose from the ball when Dave Grayson, the speedy halfback, hit him and Guard Al Reynolds claimed it for Dallas.

Vermont's sugar maples are scarlet from Sept. 25 to Oct. 15, and often hit a height in early October.

It was so dark that he didn't see it hit the water and the noisy rush of the ocean kept him from hearing it.

For example, autopilot systems that are prolific today were started to help bomber planes fly steadily enough to hit precision targets from high altitudes.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

The target is the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.

" Find a Way ", from Unguarded, became the first Christian song to hit Billboard's Top 40 list, also reaching No. 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

* Malcolm Nash the cricketer famous for bowling to Gary Sobers who hit six sixes off one Nash over ( 36 runs ) is from Abergavenny.

On September 11, 2001, Nami boarded United 93 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane, which crashed into a field in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after a passenger uprising, due to the passengers receiving information from their families of the 3 other hijacked planes that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Hurricanes occasionally hit the islands, with the hurricane season running from June to November.

Hurricanes occasionally hit the islands, with the hurricane season running from June to November.

* ISO — Isolated power: a hitter's ability to hit for extra bases, calculated by subtracting batting average from slugging percentage

In baseball, hit by pitch ( HBP ), or hit batsman ( HB ), is a batter or his equipment ( other than his bat ) being hit in some part of his body by a pitch from the pitcher.

Most recently, Mike Piazza, then of the New York Mets, was hit in the head by a pitch from Julian Tavarez of the St. Louis Cardinals on September 10, 2005.

On April 6, 2006, in a case arising from a game involving community college baseball teams, the Supreme Court of California ruled that baseball players in California assume the risk of being hit by baseballs even if the balls were intentionally thrown so as to cause injury.

A no-hitter is a game in which one of the teams prevented the other from getting a hit.

:: Rule 10. 05 ( a )( 2 ) Comment: The official scorer shall credit a hit if the fielder attempting to handle the ball cannot make a play, even if such fielder deflects the ball from or cuts off another fielder who could have put out a runner.

For a time in the 19th century, stolen bases were credited when a baserunner reached an extra base on a base hit from another player.

Basically, " plate appearances " = at bats + some of the scenarios excluded from at bats such as base on balls, hit by pitch, sacrifice or catcher's interference which positively affect the offensive team.

Lifts, where the shuttlecock is hit upwards to the back of the opponents ' court, can be played from all parts of the court.

DXT appeared ( as DST ) on Herbie Hancock's hit song " Rockit ".

Some well-known soul jazz recordings are Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder ( 1963 ), Herbie Hancock's " Cantaloupe Island " ( 1964 ) ( which was popularized further when sampled by US3 on " Cantaloop ( Flip Fantasia )"), Horace Silver's " Song for My Father " ( 1964 ) ( quoted by Steely Dan in their " Rikki Don't Lose That Number "), Ramsey Lewis's " The In Crowd " ( a top-five hit in 1965 ), and Cannonball Adderley's " Mercy, Mercy, Mercy " ( 1966 ) ( also popularized further when covered as a top 40 pop song by The Buckinghams ).

He played a prominent role in many landmark albums under other leaders for the label including most of Horace Silver's swinging and soulful Song For My Father, Herbie Hancock's dark and densely orchestrated The Prisoner, Lee Morgan's hit album The Sidewinder and ' out ' albums with pianist Andrew Hill ( Black Fire 1963 and Point of Departure, 1964 ) and drummer Pete La Roca ( Basra, 1965 ).

He hadn't done it this time and he would never again hit anyone so hard.

You hit again about twice that hard before we know whether he's dead or not.

In the 1970s Combined expanded overseas despite being hit hard by the recession.

A period of large trade deficits and improper real estate investment hit Bulgaria hard during the late-2000s recession, resulting in a 5. 5 % GDP decline in that period, a rise in unemployment, and spending at least five quarters in its worst recession since the early 1980s.

The Great Depression hit Berkeley hard, but not as hard as many other places in the U. S., thanks in part to the University.

A mid-Carboniferous drop in sea level precipitated a major marine extinction, one that hit crinoids and ammonites especially hard.

Cannibalism was proven to have occurred in China during the Great Leap Forward, when rural China was hit hard by drought and famine.

The prey or target is visible but hard to hit.

Music commented that Jones's death " hit so many people so hard " because " Monkees nostalgia cuts across generations: from the people who discovered the band during their original 1960s run ; to the kids who came of age watching 1970s reruns ; to the twenty-and thirtysomethings who discovered the Monkees when MTV ( a network that owes much to the Monkees ' influence ) began airing old episodes in 1986.

The death of Heman, with whom Allen had been quite close, hit him quite hard.

Coffee production was hit particularly hard ; 3 % of the harvest was lost in addition to 8. 2 % that was lost earlier in the year due to El Niño.

The ' hard ' forehand edge hit was banned after similar concerns were expressed about the ability of players to direct the ball accurately, but the reverse edge hit does appear to be more predictable and controllable than its counterpart.

These are increasingly popular in foil, as the hard surface increases the likelihood that a hit fails to register, as well as with youth competitors.

In May 2009, FAO and the European Union signed an initial aid package worth € 125 million to support small farmers in countries hit hard by rising food prices.

Fairmount was hit very hard by the recession of 1980 – 1982, which brought the permanent loss of factory jobs and the failure of many farms.

In the early 1930s, the worldwide Great Depression hit Germany hard, as unemployment soared and people lost confidence in the government.

The Altmark and Württemberg regions especially hard hit.

After 1973, Germany was hard hit by a worldwide economic crisis, soaring oil prices, and stubbornly high unemployment, which jumped from 300, 000 in 1973 to 1. 1 million in 1975.

The outbreak of Spanish influenza in Spain and elsewhere, along with a major economic slowdown in the postwar period, hit Spain particularly hard, and the country went into debt.

Declining exports, reduced domestic consumption and fixed asset accumulation hit Hungary hard during the Financial Crisis of 2008, making the country enter a severe recession of-6. 4 %, one of the worst economic contractions in its history.

The most skilled craftsmen were especially hard hit, because there were few alternative uses for their specialised skills.

The Great Depression however hit Greece, as a poor country dependent on agricultural exports, particularly hard.

In 1929, Italy was hit hard by the Great Depression.