Another struck him heavily in the thigh and he went down.

Before he could duck, another stone struck him.

Mickey tried to flatten against the banister, gripped it with one hand, but Roberts' full weight struck him at that moment in the groin.

Mrs. Meeker hadn't struck him as ready to seek anyone's advice, least of all Garth's.

A thug struck a cab driver in the face with a pistol last night after robbing him of $18 at Franklin and Mount Streets.

The pair was practicing throwing the discus when a discus thrown by Apollo was blown off course by the jealous Zephyrus and struck Hyacinthus in the head, killing him instantly.

One is playing cricket ; the other is making no attempt to do so " after the latter had come into the Australian rooms to express sympathy for a Larwood bouncer had struck the Australian skipper in the heart and felled him.

He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis, but the surviving details of his transgression vary: " the only certainty is in what Aktaion suffered, his pathos, and what Artemis did: the hunter became the hunted ; he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a ' wolf's frenzy ' ( Lyssa ), tore him apart as they would a stag.

He never knew what struck him.

Orient had also suffered significant damage and Admiral Brueys had been struck in the midriff by a cannonball that almost cut him in half.

Uriah refuses to do so while his companions are in the field of battle and David sends him back to Joab, the commander, with a message instructing him to abandon Uriah on the battlefield, " that he may be struck down, and die.

* 2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final ( planned ) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

When David was leaving a theater, a carriage struck him, and he later died, on 29 December 1825.

Other myths say that Equuleus is the horse struck from Poseidon's trident, during the contest between him and Athena when deciding which would be the superior.

Coleman was reported for retaliation after twice being struck by his Carlton opponent, Harry Caspar, and without him the Dons were rated a 4 goals poorer team.

Rommel had driven them forward ruthlessly, being confident that, provided he struck quickly before Eighth Army had time to settle, his momentum would take him through the Alamein position and he could then advance to the Nile with little further opposition.

In Burma, he struck out at a Burmese boy who while " fooling around " with his friends had " accidentally bumped into him " at a station, with the result that Orwell " fell heavily " down some stairs.

When Tiresias sided with Zeus, Hera struck him blind.

Clemens struck out, swinging so hard that he injured a rib-cage muscle that would ultimately end the 2005 season for him.

Davy's boyhood was spent partly with his parents and partly with Tonkin, who placed him at a preparatory school kept by a Mr. Bushell, who was so much struck with the boy's progress that he persuaded Davy's father to send him to a better school.

I remember the other's coming away from him, highly struck with his poem, and saying how wonderfully he talked.

This blow struck Seijūrō on the left shoulder, knocking him out, and crippling his left arm.

Jutte techniques were taught to him by his father — the jutte was often used in battle paired with a sword ; the jutte would parry and neutralize the weapon of the enemy while the sword struck or the practitioner grappled with the enemy.

The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

they were struck out with remarks in red ink, denouncing both the cooks and the management.

I'll never forget one time I struck out three times, dropped a fly ball, and we lost the game.

It was then that, as an ambitious 22-year-old, Lincoln decided to seek a better life and struck out on his own.

While he was in talks with Hastein, the Danes at Appledore broke out and struck northwestwards.

The evacuation of Aon's offices, ordered by Eric Eisenberg, was carried out quickly as 925 of the 1, 100 Aon employees present at the time managed to evacuate the building before United Airlines Flight 175 struck it twenty stories below them.

Hera struck Artemis on the ears with her own quiver, causing the arrows to fall out.

Charlton opened the scoring with a crisp side-footed finish after a run by Roger Hunt had forced the Portuguese goalkeeper out of his net ; his second was a sweetly struck shot after a run and pull-back from Geoff Hurst.

You know I took some lumps when the Mighty Case struck out.

A deal was struck for the owners of the ground to carry out the work, in return for which they would receive a proportion of the gate receipts.

With a full count, Betancourt struck out pinch hitter Nate Schierholtz to secure the save.

When they struck it they knocked many electrons out of the metal.

At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.

" This angered Soga no Umako and, perhaps out of fear of being struck first, Umako had Sushun assassinated by in 592.

Hernandez struck out 15 Braves and outdueled multiple Cy Young award-winner Greg Maddux to a 2 – 1 victory and a 3 – 2 series lead.

Ryan had four career no-hitters already and had struck out 383 in one season.

The original box scores also created the often puzzling abbreviation for strikeout as " K "-" K " being the last letter of " struck " in " struck out.

Although Vietnam's historical record of leadership in the revolution and its military power and proximity will not cease to exist, Laos struck out ahead of Vietnam with its New Economic Mechanism to introduce market mechanisms into its economy.

" This dreadful scene struck the Romans who were present with so much horror and compassion that they all cried out with one voice that they would rather die a thousand deaths in defence of their liberty than suffer such outrages to be committed by the tyrants.

Hamels allowed only two hits and struck out nine Brewers batters in eight shutout innings.