But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

The planners in Taiwan struck me as realistic men.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

The answers the girls give struck me as reasonably varied and healthily individual.

Sometimes they struck me as horribly over-arranged -- which was the way I felt about her `` Come Rain or Come Shine '' -- and sometimes they were just plain magnificent, like her shatteringly beautiful `` Beautiful Weather ''.

It was a look as cold as steel, in which there was something threatening, even frightening, and it struck me like a blow.

The fast throw by St. Louis enables the receiving player to dodge the opposing players, and it struck me as being all but perfect.

Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".

In fact, his father was so incensed by his departure that, as Severn reported in a late memoir, " in his insane rage he struck me a blow which fell me to the ground.

My husband told me that when he was a lad of seventeen a thought struck him suddenly, which became the foundation of all his future discoveries.

The latest attack took place on January 23rd, an INC official told me, when missiles fired by what he termed ' indigenous dissidents ' struck the large Baiji refinery complex, north of Baghdad, triggering a fire that blazed for more than twelve hours.

of white told me a wave had struck,

Fry and the Professor are usually the only ones to refer to Zoidberg as a friend, as in Bender's Big Score, in which Zoidberg says, " He was the only one of you who never struck me!

Cooke was struck once in the torso, and according to Franklin, he exclaimed, " Lady, you shot me ," before mounting a last charge at her.

" I am an anarchist by conviction ... I came to Geneva to kill a sovereign, with object of giving an example to those who suffer and those who do nothing to improve their social position ; it did not matter to me who the sovereign was whom I should kill ... It was not a woman I struck, but an Empress ; it was a crown that I had in view.

I watched him as a student of politics, rather than someone involved in politics, and he always struck me as someone who was a statesman as well as a politician, someone who was in politics for all the right reasons, and someone who made a huge contribution to the peace process bringing reconciliation for all that had happened in the past.

Of Hopkins, Stone said, " the isolation of Tony is what struck me.

" It struck me like lightning, this thing ," he wrote to conductor Anton Seidl, " and everything was revealed to me clear and plain.

It opened a great deal because to me personally, I'd been struck with an itch in my own orgasm.

Finally, after another song from Nichols or Bentley, there was a situation comedy sketch worked up from the clichés of a literary or cinematic genre ; for example, later TIFH programmes included a sketch about restoration England, with Charles II, Nell Gwynne and the Puritan keeper of the Privy Purse (" anything TV can do, we can do later "); or a spoof spy story set on an international sleeper from London to Paris ("… as I moved through the train I gazed at a handsome film star, slumbering in his compartment, and a thought struck me — whether you're great or whether you're humble, when you sleep upright you dribble ").

' This phrase struck me so forcefully that I have often used it since.

A temperate sharpness about it [...] I never lik'd stubble fields so much as now [...] Somehow a stubble plain looks warm – in the same way that some pictures look warm – this struck me so much in my sunday's walk that I composed upon it.

Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.

Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and a spring sprang up ; the water was salty and not very useful, whereas Athena offered them an olive tree.

It is thought that the Earth itself coalesced from material in orbit around the Sun roughly 4500 Ma ( 4. 5 Ga ) and may have been struck by a very large ( Mars-sized ) planetesimal shortly after it formed, splitting off material that came together to form the Moon ( see Giant impact hypothesis ).

The elementary quark and gluon particles affected are unobservable directly, but instead emerge as jets of newly created hadrons, whenever energy is deposited into a quark-quark bond, as when a quark in a proton is struck by a very fast quark ( in an impacting proton ) during a particle accelerator experiment.

At very low temperatures, rubber is rather brittle ; it will break into shards when struck or stretched.

Specifically, snare drums ( vibrations of a circular membrane ), create a very noisy wave shortly after they are struck.

White Christmas, Strategic Air Command, To Catch a Thief and The Battle of the River Plate ( a. k. a. Pursuit of the Graf Spee ) had very limited ( two or three ) prints struck in the 8-perf VistaVision format in which they were shot.

5 ( 1 ): 579 ( 1934 ) "... it seems that once in a while the recording equipment is struck by very extensive showers of particles, which causes coincidences between the counters, even placed at large distances from one another.

* Mission to Mars ( 2000 ) – Martian ( s ) are shown as tall, feminine and very peaceful humanoids who abandoned their planet after a large meteor struck.

The widespread civil unrest made it no longer safe for merchants to travel as they once had, and the financial crisis that struck made exchange very difficult with the debased currency.

According to Nevil Shute Norway it was a very advanced engine ( and the price struck Shute as low ; much lower than competing engines on the basis of power-to-weight ratio ), so its loss was a major disaster for Airspeed ( and Britain ).

When struck, the bars give a very pure, bell-like sound.

In 1732, while on a visit in 1732 to Copenhagen for the coronation of his cousin King Christian VI, the Moravian Church's patron Nicolas Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf, was very struck by its effects, particularly two visiting Inuit children converted by Hans Egede.

That circumstance struck at the very roots of the southern conception of party.

Picasso was very struck by Oviri.

The identification is based in part on the description of his death, which is very similar to Agrippa's death in Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews 19. 8. 2, although Josephus does not include the claim that " an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms ".

But at the very moment when he uttered the words Eustace was struck between the shoulders with such force that blood gushed out from his mouth and nose and half dead he only made his escape with the aid of his followers ".

Poseidon struck the rock of the Acropolis with his trident and a spring sprang up ; the water was salty and was not thought very useful, whereas Athena struck the rock with her lance and an olive tree sprung up.

They typically report events, such as structures struck by lightning, rotating wall clouds, funnel clouds -- or conditions that exceed specific thresholds, such as extremely strong winds, significant hail or very heavy rainfall.

Morphy ’ s room was always kept in perfect order, for he was very particular and neat, yet this room had a peculiar aspect and at once struck the visitor as such, for Morphy had a dozen or more pairs of shoes of all kinds which he insisted in keeping arranged in a semi-circle in the middle of the room, explaining with his sarcastic smile that in this way, he could at once lay his hands on the particular pair he desired to wear.

The storm struck very quickly, allowing little time to prepare.