The gongs in Remny Tower were striking Sixth Hour, midnight, and I took them as my excuse to go. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No one can be there for me. When I get to Rome, I’ll have to strike out oh my own. Otherwise, the Mark won’t appear. I’ll have to follow it to...to the source.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With the ax we strike plants and animals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story runs that he was stricken with pneumonia after spending two nights exercising in the winter rain—but the pneumonia was the culmination of another sickness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It strikes me as suspicious, the way she’s arranged the names. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was stab—-one quick strike. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a banner headline in the Star Tribune: 1,450 hotel workers, members of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, strike nine local hotels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized the signs from when his father would strike, quick as a cobra, and slap Nailer upside the head or yank him close to sink a fist into his stomach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He also reviewed the best places to strike with a baton: the ex-posed bones of the lower body. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One ... two ... three ...” We heard their shoes strike the hard wood. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re striking the keys like they’re conga drums. This is a very delicate instrument. The touch has to be light, light...” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The last thing Nailer saw was Sadna’s shadow plunging into the wind, running down the beach, surrounded by lightning strikes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

This finding alone would have ensured Hubble’s reputation, but he now turned to the question of working out just how much vaster the universe was, and made an even more striking discovery. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then I strike, coming down on her like an executioner. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The space behind it was so dark that he had to strike a match to find the light cord. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The striking edge had folded back on itself. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, those who paid tribute to him were forced to strike at more distant halls to gather the gold they paid to Hrothgar—and a little on the side for themselves. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to use up any breaks fetching them— not today, with the strike news to talk about. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snowdrifts and lightning strikes, or bedclothes burned away, leaving nothing but an angry, naked baby steaming in a mesarthium bassinet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Percy stared at the Athena Parthenos, waiting for it to strike him down. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was striking now at the outer rim of Hrothgar’s sphere; it was only a matter of time before he struck Hrothgar. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were able to strike a deal that got you out of jail early? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were joined for two weeks by Walter, who had been on trial in Johannesburg for incitement to strike while I had been in Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phoenix song is magical: it is reputed to increase the courage of the pure of heart and to strike fear into the hearts of the impure. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a striking difference between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres: the degree of interaction between their great cultural centers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the Soviet Union the resources, quality, attention and care given to military production is in striking contrast to the little left for consumer goods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drawing is striking, well executed, poignant, melancholic, beautiful—but not in a traditional sense. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For an instant he feared she would strike him, but instead she commanded them to release him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The belief was that a nation could deter a "first strike," in the parlance of nuclear strategists, by making sure that the enemy understood that their strike would never succeed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He countered the strike and disarmed me using one of the first moves he’d ever taught me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

With gnarled hands stricken with arthritis he gently unhooked her scarf and broke off a large yellow bloom and handed it to her. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He thought of how he’d find a church at last and take a team and of the owner coming out, shouting at him and of himself striking the man down. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a wave of strikes in Western Pennsylvania, box makers, steelworkers, laundrywomen, and machinists all won higher pay. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The very core of him, die very center of Brian Robeson was stopped and stricken with a white-flash of horror, a terror so intense that his breathing, his thinking, and nearly his heart had stopped. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other striking examples involve wild species that were not domesticated in areas where food production never arose spontaneously, even though those wild species had close relatives domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or by sticking to my one-person strike until—who knows?—she eventually relented and let us drive her to the nearest ER or at least sat down? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could have settled her with a well-planted blow; but he would not strike: he would only wrestle. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

My instinct was to strike it in disgust; to stamp it out; but of course, I stayed my hand. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The literature of veterinary medicine is rife with cases of animals stricken by swainsonine poisoning after eating damp forage contaminated with R. leguminicola. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It only now strikes Bailey that, other than the red-haired girl, he has never heard any person in the circus speak. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I use her momentum against her and strike her hard when her back’s turned. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A truly dangerous opponent would have killed his dæmon at once, and ended the matter there and then; this antagonist was afraid to strike. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was taken aback, and did my best not to show my surprise — or my delight — at this striking coincidence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once elected, Clinton endorsed the idea of a federal “three strikes and you’re out” law, which he advocated in his 1994 State of the Union address to enthusiastic applause on both sides of the aisle. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She wears a gown fashioned from a pink kimono, her hair piled in an elaborate knotted style and her eyes rimmed in a striking red. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Realizing that they would retaliate if I let up for but a second, I fought to lay them low, to knock them cold, to kill them so that they could not strike back at me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is the grass that hides the viper from his enemies and shelters him until he strikes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All of Holland is being punished for the workers’ strikes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t strike me as a fool on a lark.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,” RFK had said. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Ginika said you left Nigeria because college professors are always on strike there?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president’s orders for an air strike on North Vietnam had reached the Constellation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One had been stricken by polio, keeping up with his friends by agilely dragging forward with his hands while his ruined legs trailed behind. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had been pushed aside, and Sparrow was standing there, stricken. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Still, carrying his jacket strikes me as even more intimate than watching him take it off. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I weighed my fist, and observed my target; but I found I had no will to strike the gentleman. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Which means my husband couldn’t possibly have been the arsonist,” Mom said, “unless you’d care to demonstrate how a person with all ten fingers sealed in hard plaster would go about striking a match.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I swing my arm as fast as I can, my shoulder socket burning from the sudden motion, and the belt strikes Marcus’s shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Two years away from home, away from the shelter of her parents and the model of her older siblings, had given Christine the desire, and the confidence, to strike out on her own. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Auntie Fatmata screamed, her voice drowned out by thunder as I stood outside, hoping that the lightning wouldn’t strike me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please. Do you really think lightning is going to strike twice? I mean one ghetto kid stumbling into fame is rare enough, don’t you think?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was as though they felt it was especially unfair that it should strike one of the sixteen-year-olds, one of the few young men who could be free and happy in the summer of 1942. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the middle of the sidewalk with his jaws clamped tight; he wanted to strike something with his fist. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Travis changed poses: leaning on his staff, holding the staff at the ready to strike. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It turns out that oak trees have three strikes against them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was roused from her seat, and her reflections, by some one’s approach; and before she could strike into another path, she was overtaken by Wickham. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She turned me down in the polite way that all Dinka girls turn down all Dinka boys when they try to strike up their first conversation. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How am I going to live?” repeated Biddy, striking in, with a momentary flush upon her face. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Men strike a match one-handed, but you nevtr see a woman doing that. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The potter stood over the boy with the cane still poised for another strike. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a piece of misdirection, all meant to keep Dain’s spies busy chasing our tails while Balekin and Madoc planned to strike in the one place no one looked—right out in the open. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

High on his left arm, a tattoo of a red cobra, fanged, coiled, and ready to strike, stood in stark relief to his pale, freckled skin. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As news of the strike and the chaotic night in Boston dominated the front pages of newspapers from New York to Los Angeles, Boston remained calm on Wednesday. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I turned my head and saw a familiar pair of striking green eyes framed by close-cropped blond hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He wanted to strike something with his fist. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are several striking features about Vergil’s display of erudition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Who will be the kings, the rooks, and bishops rising up to strike at a distance? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark grabbed for it, but the stranger had been as quick as a striking snake. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

With the tide of public opinion having turned so completely against the police, Samuel Gompers, the head of the AFL, urged them to end their strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Two of Retrieval’s finest were stationed beside the recovered ransom, but at the moment they were having a little giggle at their stricken commander. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In a strike, workers walked off the job and refused to go back until the company agreed to their demands. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I rode by on my bike going to the machine shop and heard the chant: “Strike, strike, strike!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In midflight the dragon-Ged raised wings, stopped, and stooped as the hawk stoops, talons outstretched downward, striking and bearing the other down by neck and flank. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gen strikes the match too hard and it dives out of her fingers and into some dry leaves outside the circle. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“But you don’t even know why they are striking in F and G,” he said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only option left to him is to strike back, and strike back hard. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pinch was running and jumping, striking out with a stick and pretending to hunt doves. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The request was from Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican with striking green eyes who could have been a fashion model if he hadn’t gone into robbery and murder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Superintendent Michael Crowley was one of the few members of the Boston police force who not only refused to take part in the strike, but tried to bring order once the chaos began. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that with the coming of spring General Gage would leave the safety of Boston, strike out into the country as commanded by his King, and this time in considerable force. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I was four, when I tried to organize my fellow preschoolers into going on strike for better cookies at snack time, I’ve had the same problem. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I heard one of her daughters was stricken,” said Mr. Brown. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If they don’t hit it, it’s a strike,” she told me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I made a mistake about the direction from which sunshine would be striking the earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flaws and irregularities told how the trees endured fires and lightning strikes and windstorms and infestations and yet continued to grow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Yet in 1995, a few brave souls challenged the implementation of Georgia’s “two strikes and you’re out” sentencing scheme, which imposes life imprisonment for a second drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I laughed, a little wild, and reached out fast as a striking snake for his leg. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, oh, she was beautiful when she made a strike—all power and beauty. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strike was nationwide, and all her friends were home, even Kayode was home, back on holiday from his American university. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When his eyes met mine again, I felt the truth of what the philosophers say, that love enters through the eyes and strikes the soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter didn’t strike me to be a crying woman, but I saw her tears well up although she wouldn’t let them roll. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I cover my face and grit my teeth as the tears fall, bearing the wave of despair like it is a fist, striking me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Everyone is going to think you’re planning a drone strike,” she whispered, her voice sharp as vinegar. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The sound of her fingertips striking the bucket’s side seems louder than the gong of a cathedral bell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I strike a dramatic pose, which makes him laugh. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Just as you like, sir, of course. But he strikes me as being a bit out of the ordinary. I’d say, a distinctly useful rabbit.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Muslim present was impressed by the bearing and the obvious genuineness of the striking, handsome pair of prizefighter brothers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is blushing again and looks to me, stricken, for help. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

To provide an alibi, he ordered air strikes right up to the edge of the Vietnam-Cambodia border, starting twelve hours before they would cross into Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The children could only stare at her, stricken with dread. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In 1927, as story after story in the Odessa News heralded new strikes in the oil field, the only non-oil-related activity that made the front page was the exploits of the Odessa High Yellowjackets. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would suddenly become very mean, striking out for no reason. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up the mallet and put all of her anger into a single, powerful strike at the tuning fork. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

During a long strike by the schoolteachers when I was a high school senior, I found a job in one of the area’s small steel plants. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then the clock strikes twelve and the king yawns. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Armed men went to and fro in the ways of the City, as if going at the striking of the hour to changes of post and duty. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a good maneuver—a feint followed by a strike to the face. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But it was only as he fell the last five hundred feet, as he heard the clock strike twelve, that he realized two things. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

All he could recall having heard about Communists was associated in his mind with darkness, old houses, people speaking in whispers, and trade unions on strike. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the Night of Terror, several dozen other women joined with Alice Paul in her hunger strike to protest their unfair and intolerable treatment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

People appear in ones and twos from structures shattered in other strikes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of a hoe striking against the earth. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If he is loose he cannot do that” “You could strike him yourself, Mam,” said the Kestrel, “judiciously, you know.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were through the gap, they had only to keep on in anything like a straight line and they were bound in the end to strike the Road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That same month, our Post and Telecommunications Corporation, or PTC, fired more than six hundred people, causing the other workers to go on strike. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Company guards threatened, thrashed, and sometimes shot striking miners. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He heard Max stand up, strike a match and light a cigarette. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Young, hot-tempered Marq Piper urged a strike west at easterly Rock instead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But in some, the shape of the instrument — usually a tube, block, circle, or bell shape — allows the instrument to ring with a standing-wave vibration when you strike it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Farm kids will strike sparks onto a fresh cow pat and watch it burn. That’s why farmers have to be careful about storing manure. The gas can build up and explode.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each side is tempted to increase its military advantage, but not in so striking a way as seriously to alarm the other. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I strike at everything that shouts and calls. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would strike fear into the Beiderman’s heart, he was sure of it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As they crossed Moskvoretsky Bridge, spanning the Moskva River, the Russian man joined them, striking up a conversation in shaky English. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, as the probability of a strike grew larger and larger, he left Boston without telling anyone where he was going. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The phrase “a little genetic test” strikes me as an oxymoron. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Lawyers typically have little information about potential jurors, so their decisions to strike individual jurors tend to be based on nothing more than stereotypes, prejudices, and hunches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s a striking man, his face is powerful. Like you, Ishmael, he served in the war. Have you forgotten that—that he fought in the war? That he risked his life for this country?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I closed the cover before striking, but the cardboard of the matches kept bending on me. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, nearly half a million workers joined the strike. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

If a wheel strikes against a stone or other impediment, while in quick motion, it turns the cart with a violent jerk, and often throws them down with more or less injury. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came at me, her hands raised, ready to strike. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We pass one curtain with a sign out front that reads: What happens when an unstoppable force strikes an immovable object? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sickened that they would pick on a man’s mother and strike at him through terrorizing her, I immediately made calls and asked for police surveillance of both my home and my parents’ home. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the largest heavy bomber strikes since World War II, and forced North Vietnam to make concessions at the negotiating table. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Petrosian’s style was closed and defensive, like a motionless but watchful snake, ready to strike the moment his opponent made the slightest mistake. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I spent restless minutes swinging the cutlass with all my might at trees that he would cut with one strike. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The general prisoners declared victory and called off the hunger strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I reach him I strike at them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the suitors mad with fear at her great sign stampeded like stung cattle by a river when the dread shimmering gadfly strikes in summer, in the flowering season, in the long-drawn days. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down and began striking them together with a hollow knock. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Now the elms are stricken with a disease that afflicts them throughout their range, a disease so serious that many experts believe all efforts to save the elms will in the end be futile. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He will walk up and blow cigarette smoke in the Negro’s face, hoping the Negro will strike out at him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I reach into my pocket, something whizzes past my head and strikes the bully's shoulder, making him yelp. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Your village is very fine,” Nhamo said, uncertain how to strike up a conversation. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when an enemy did strike, it wasn’t Mrs. Coulter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I call for a vote to strike the charge of theft.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When two objects come together in the real world–billiard balls are most often used for illustration–they don’t actually strike each other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It began like any other calamity that strikes the poor but quickly took on the characteristics of a divine punishment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held the ball in both hands at her waist, and then, like the strike of a cobra, her right hand flicked out and the ball smacked into Jasper’s hand. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lord Cheldthorpe burst into the clearing and declared, “Mr. Gitney! Mark this, sir — mark this: I will down a bull moose for you and your academy before we strike camp.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“So, the chance of meeting someone in the middle of the Pacific with whom to trade my cigarettes did not strike me as an obvious prospect.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The city’s mayor, Ole Hanson, declared that the walkout was not really a strike at all but a Communist plot to change the very fabric of America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But there was one other thing that the grownups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The lightning strike did nothing for my writing skills. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We are in striking distance of each other. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But those who wanted to strike out on their own, to try something new, he had encouraged. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one-sidedness of that exchange of germs becomes even more striking when we recall that large, dense human populations are a prerequisite for the evolution of our crowd infectious diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As miners came off shift, the union signed up those willing to strike. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

In one of the largest such actions in South African history, the miners went on strike for a week and maintained their solidarity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he seemed to be striking a wet wad of cotton, of some damp substance whose only life was the jarring of the brick’s impact. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m five steps away and still running when Matthew makes a two-handed strike down at the ground, embedding the tip of the machete into the wooden floor. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Speak the truth, you ingrate!” cried Miss Havisham, passionately striking her stick upon the floor; “you are tired of me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t fit with anything I’ve ever heard of them. They’re sup posed to strike like lightning then disappear. They don’t visit, set some fires, then come back later to run a few errands.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t strike me as somebody who had a lot of worries or hopes. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first strike was physical, and then I wrecked them financially. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Both opponents in first position, foils balanced, ready to strike. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Beyond the kelp beds pelicans were already hunting, soaring high over the clear water, diving straight down, if they sighted a fish, to strike the sea with a great splash that I could hear. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother asked if she wanted to join the sewing class at church, to keep her occupied, and her father said that this, the unending university strike, was why young people became armed robbers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The earth quakes under feet Behind, among the flying clods, there are hoof-prints stricken in the ground. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time she made an even more striking impression. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I want you to listen while I interview him, and let me know if anything he says strikes a chord.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Sergio is a good guy, but he never strikes out on his own. He’s always asking Darma for advice. I take action. Anyway, that life is too slow for me,” he says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, he would strike later, on his own terms. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Despite the carpenters’ strike and all the work yet to be done, Burnham felt optimistic, his mood bolstered by the fine weather. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“He would be alive now if the medical center was not on strike,” Amaka said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They called in air strikes at what they guessed were the enemy positions. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I got ready to defend, but before Kronos could strike, a dog s howl pierced the air somewhere behind the Titan’s army. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to draw Riptide and strike him down. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Christ, look at this mud,” said Francis as we bounced through yet another pothole, brown spray striking the window with a thick rataplan. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A hunger strike consists of one thing: not eating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began firing them rapidly at the dogs, laughing loudly when I made a strike, and sulking when I missed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the streets of Mafikeng, battles broke out between the homeland police and striking workers and students. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But some areas did not hear that the strike was called off, while others spurned our call. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Management actions at and in the immediate vicinity of airports do little to mitigate the risk of off-airport strikes during departure and approach. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“And do you remember—did anything in his manner strike you as unusual? Different?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She emerges from the dressing room minutes later and strikes a pose. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Ifeoma was saying that they just called off a strike,” Mama said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once more, they used a blitzkrieg to strike deep into other countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I must look as stricken as I feel, because she suddenly stops and wipes her palms down the front of her thighs. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Arrogant child. As if you have not already taken enough. Speak, then. It amuses me not to strike you dead yet.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Once a scent had been acquired, the predator would attempt a slow silent approach, before the lightning strike. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Massachusetts telephone operators strike against the New England Telephone Company. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

People always wanted to strike up conversation about it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, death may strike quickly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You just gave me an idea. Like my dad says, strike while the griddle’s hot.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She wanted to strike at the bars with her bare hands, but the metal cut her skin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

So these now fell upon the suitors in that hall, turning, turning to strike and strike again, while torn men moaned at death, and blood ran smoking over the whole floor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as thousands of private citizens and a large number of government officials were concerned, these strikes were fostered by Communist agitators, eager to throw the United States into turmoil. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

His expression is most striking in the Easter photo because it contrasts so strongly with the exuberant grin Carine wears in the same frame. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine and I had decided this was the best course of action, a preemptive strike on whatever the sheriff had planned in retaliation. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They’d strike up a conversation about the crazy crow in the big oak tree. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

An inch shorter than Joe, and more slightly built, he was nevertheless a fine physical specimen and striking to look at, with fine, regular features; gracefully proportioned limbs; and an open, eager face. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Father spends his days making rounds through the village, trying to strike up chats with the idle old men, or venturing farther afield to inspect the state of grace in the neighboring villages. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also cited the Clayton Antitrust Act, passed in 1914, which ensured the rights of citizens and union members to strike, boycott, and picket. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron exchanged panic- stricken looks, then threw the Invisibility Cloak back over themselves and retreated into a corner. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

This pattern is particularly striking given that less educated people tend to be more punitive and blacks on average are less educated than whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Furious, he stepped forward and lifted a fist as though to strike me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then John decided to strike up a conversation with the gorilla. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before too long we heard the belling tower striking noon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I will be on strike tomorrow with my people and fellow workers!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been stricken with typhoid fever during his first year of teaching, and Ellen Creighton had patiently nursed him back to health with the skill she had learned over the years. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Legs at a right angle. Right foot forward, left foot back and perpendicular. Knees bent. Strong core. Strong balance to move forward or back. To strike or defend.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Adding to the risk was the fact that no one knew how to prevent an attack or what to do if the piranhas did strike. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Crick was referring to the striking universality of the flow of genetic information throughout biology.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They lunged around Ephialtes, stabbing and slashing in a blur of gold and bronze, but the giant parried every strike. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She heard a faint buzzing sound, like a mosquito flying in and out of striking distance. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

While nothing justifies striking another student—ever—I also know good friends are sometimes worth defending. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Yet they overcame their fears and took on the responsibility in order to save their stricken city and its people. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There I was, laughing and smiling and enjoying the day—fishing pole gripped in my hands, bare feet propped on the railing—when the nausea would strike. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the king sat upon Snowmane, motionless, gazing upon the agony of Minas Tirith, as if stricken suddenly by anguish, or by dread. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In very little time the bucket started shaking and rattling emptily with each strike of his tongue. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was now bulldogging a fatally stricken F-8 that was beginning to break up inside itself, beginning to destroy its own vitals. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, as the strike wore on, food and money were running out. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His palm connected, she spun back with the force of his strike, and went down. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And not with a lightning strike like a September hurricane, but punch after punch after punch. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birthmark is cursing and he raises his arm to strike but I’ve got my knife out in front of me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment Violet thought he was going to strike Mr. Poe across the face. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Chronicler blanched, his expression as stricken as if he’d been stabbed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Miranda whined to the girls about how Gibbler dragged her around in the back of his Packard whenever he went to check out a strike or stare down an unproductive tool pusher. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brother McKinnon holds a rattler inches from his face, spraying it with spittle as he prays, daring the serpent to strike and test his faith. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly his face lit up, like that of a man who, faced with utter and humiliating defeat, at the last minute strikes upon a brilliant, face- saving idea. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one will strike at the kingdom from the sea: icebergs drift a mile out, grinding against one another from time to time, letting out a low moan like the sigh of some huge sea-beast. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning strikes all of them except for their captain, Jena, lighting up the space in a flash of brilliant gold. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He nearly raised his hand to strike him, but did not move, for Elisha lay between them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Fito arrived and stood in the doorway, stricken, the skin on his face sagging. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Is that a motion to strike the previous two grievances and replace them with reckless use of sympathy?” asked the Chancellor, trying to regain a semblance of formality. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then, again led by Paul and Burns, they went on a hunger strike, a strategy designed to attract public attention to what the denial of women’s right to vote had led to. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The sun strikes low, I am stupefied with exhaustion and hunger. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a rolled-up newspaper in his hand was striking another man who had a long red beard and was wearing Bermuda shorts. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fly, my dear sir, has one striking feature; its wings are typical of the aërial powers of the psychic faculties. The ancients did well when they typified the soul as a butterfly!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I feared to hear a cry from the ground that would strike me dead. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Forty grand in the bank, but always pulling back when it comes to money Always, I think, and the question strikes me a few nights later as I watch an old movie. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He felt like they’d prodded the poisonous snake about as much as they could and the snake was about strike back. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy indicated the stricken cow in the street. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One snorts and strikes the ground with a hoof. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I brought down the blade on the monsters enormous backside when out of nowhere another sword blocked my strike. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At first she thought that he might strike her down where she stood, for a look of ravenous hunger came over him, as if he could not wait to spill her blood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Coloured people rallied against the Separate Representation of Voters Act, organizing a tremendous demonstration in Cape Town in March of 1951 and a strike in April that kept shops closed and schoolchildren at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In The Magnolia Jungle the juxtaposition of the best of these columns against a background of stark horror gives a striking effect. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strike would have dissolved any lesser monster, but Polybotes just staggered and looked down at the golden ichor —the blood of immortals—spilling from his wound. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It is bad luck to let one of these small whirlwinds strike you. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She alighted close to the tree trunk, where her dark back feathers and striking black head would blend with the bark. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“What childish dream is this?” said Voldemort, but still he did not strike, and his red eyes did not waver from Harry’s. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the door is already swinging shut behind her, and I hear the crash of scim striking scim, followed by the crunch of bone beneath fist. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I could tell which way he would strike. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I wish the lightning strike had given me the superpower of invisibility. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

May I remind you that Tom Creighton died for the Union cause, that he died in battle, where a man fights his opponent face to face rather than striking and scuttling off into the darkness ? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the surface, he was the embodiment of every parent’s dream, a strong, tall, well-dressed and well- mannered boy with talent and striking looks, not to mention the wit to joke with an adult. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Something hisses deep in the building’s belly as though a massive snake is about to strike. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the people in his mother’s address books, always added to, never crossed out, all of them are stricken by the news. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every reflex inside said to strike back, but I didn’t. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But Hanson was determined to prevent the unions from moving the strike forward. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We spent one long second looking at one another, to see who would strike first, and then we just started going at it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In the predawn darkness, the storm churning above Serra strikes with the wrath of a conquering army. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the month of May alone, unions across the nation battled with employers in 413 strikes and lockouts. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Almost all epidemics followed the same pattern, striking during warm weather, disappearing with the first hard frost. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Yet the nature of many of the chemicals used against insects, rodents, and weeds is such that they may strike directly at this system, disrupting its beautifully functioning mechanism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But before he could strike, all the arai in front of him exploded into dust. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The elephant hesitates, in response to which August strikes her with the bull hook. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You remember,” Pa said, “I told you girls you must never strike each other.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man wearing it was striking in a way that Richard immediately thought was primordial: a wide mahogany-colored face, wide lips, a wide nose. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"It is the responsibility of your adversary to see that he strikes this, and not your gut. Of course, in Nick's case, it may be difficult to avoid." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The way was clear between the rows of buried strawberries and he followed it with the starlight striking off the snow, bathing everything in an aqueous light. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And as I watched him strike at the walls with that broom like he chased after bats, I could only imagine what John Worth tried to outrun that night. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just before sunrise I strike out across the field to Mrs. Strawberry’s weatherworn farmhouse. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We listened attentively to see if he was going to embellish the story with more striking details. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In Tunis, our first stop, we met with the minister of defense, who bore a striking resemblance to Chief Luthuli. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smuggled-out information that we were on a hunger strike would elicit newspaper stories, which in turn would generate pressure from advocacy groups. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It strikes me then how she does not have much command over the language to complain about her hunger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winchell, his confidence growing, threw three passes, all of them short, incisive strikes to Hill, all of them complete. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I could not deliver justice for the crimes of Claudius, nor rebuke Gertrude for being fickle, I did strike at their consciences. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You know, you strike me as an intelligent guy. It might be better for you to think for yourself, rather than memorizing the words of others.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Stuart threw himself down against a stump and tried to strike an easy attitude, as though he were accustomed to taking girls out. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Union members used the word scab for strikebreakers, people willing to cross the picket line and work during a strike. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“What did I tell you? First day and you have a strike against you.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

This is a striking case of French imposing itself upon English, and of the scientists determining for the first time the language of the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nick raised a hand as if to strike the other. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

His fist strikes the trainer’s arm pads so powerfully that the trainer winces at the impact. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, under the three strikes regime in California, a “repeat offender” could be someone who had only a single prior case decades ago, and one arrest can result in multiple strikes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He emerged from the water twenty feet from the man, the beautiful green head trailing from its outstretched wing, the sun striking the iridescent plumage. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the old woman at the Virgin’s altar turn and nod approvingly when she saw Father Byrnes strike Bones. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting to see a lightbulb, for that same lightning to strike twice. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Cole kept striking the wood together for Garvey as he stood for his turn. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He winces and hunches his shoulders, preparing for a second strike. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He could sing a song and strike a chord now and then and really it sounded as though he were singing to music. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the two boys watched from their covert looking post, the thing that held their fascination the longest was the fact that they had advanced to within striking distance of a police car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next week we initiated our first go-slow strike on the island: we would work at less than half the speed we had before to protest the excessive and unfair demands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about either mountaineering or flying didn’t strike him as a major impediment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

That fit past, I saw to what must be done, and by Ninth Hour striking on the gongs was gone from the Palace. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The steady thud of knuckles striking flesh, the groans and ragged gasps, the scuffle of feet on the floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A few weeks before, Joost had been told that Hoede’s boathouse would be undergoing improvements and to strike it from his rounds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“If only I could strike it with my skirt like Biri,” she sighed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about something from the movies? Or books?” she said, hoping inspiration would strike. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They carried no rattles to warn in advance of a strike, but Roy saw that the tips of their stubby tails had been dipped in blue and silver sparkles, the kind used in art projects. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clay raised his arm as if to strike her, then lowered it as the anger on his face eased into a smile. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Company guards and Georgia National Guard troops were dispatched in at least seven states, smashing the strike in three weeks. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They walked past the Class III Airport Workers’ Union token one-day hunger strike. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘One of you might have fallen in and still be wondering when you were going to strike the bottom,’ said Aragorn to Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So it went the first time I saw a Muslim pray—quick, necessary, physical, muttered, striking. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I swear, we can’t go anywhere without her striking up a conversation with a complete stranger. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But he could not strike out blindly now; death was a different and bigger adversary. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he had been there last, the most striking characteristic of the landscape had been the black mountain, its shadow casting gloom upon the village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then an idea seemed to strike him and he said shrewdly: “Yet I will myself take you there, and if you prosper you can pay me.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she wasn’t ready to strike just yet. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I had never imagined such a thing possible, lightning striking the sea. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Voldemort was in the center of the battle, and he was striking and smiting all within reach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They would strike camp again and head west over the ice, trying to narrow the gap between themselves and the islands. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And when a man’s feelings are hurt he wants to strike at something, and Abel was in the way of his anger.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’d even dreamed of entering the Ice Court as a spy just like this, of striking at the heart of this nation that hated her so much. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And the victory put the Under Thirteen Fugees within striking distance of first place, if they could keep winning. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I just knew that if he was about rise, I had to strike him down before he got his scythe. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As O’Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I knew little about Botha apart from the fact that he had been an aggressive defense minister and had supported a military strike into Angola in 1975. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, callers asked whether there had been a meteor strike in New Jersey. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure what would happen if I got three strikes in a row, but my guess was that I’d either be expelled from the gate or that my avatar would simply be killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Times proclaimed that the majority of the strike’s leaders were “Bolsheviki of the most radical Russian type.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I’ll kill myself if the Republic strikes you down for reacting to knowledge that I gave you. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I raised my sword, but before I could strike, Tyson ripped the monster’s grading machine out of the floor and threw it at the Sphinx’s head, ruining her hair bun. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The school bus drivers threatened to go on strike. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a key member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and had heard I was opposed to the May Day strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kentucky that prosecutors could be challenged more directly about using peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory manner, giving hope to black defendants—and forcing prosecutors to find more creative ways to exclude black jurors. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A chill air seemed to strike his face, rising from invisible depths. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Death row prisoner Jesse Morrison told Walter that his prosecutor in Barbour County had used twenty-one out of twenty-two peremptory strikes to exclude all the black people in the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It waits there for a moment before climbing up to the elephant’s neck where it strikes, bringing the animal to its knees. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

This was a wonderful gift, no doubt, and yet of what use was a sword when the creature to be struck by it could turn the swordsman into stone before he was within striking distance? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers restraining me strikes me in the back with his rifle. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

These four guys come out onstage, and while they don't bear a striking resemblance to the members of Neutral Milk Hotel, I tell myself that, whatever, I've only seen pictures on the web. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I was too close to the old man, we were always within striking distance of each other. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we get sick if the milk delivery is late and nearly die of heart failure if there is an elevator strike. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Then I would be incapacitated, or Zeus would strike me down. Father never liked me. He hasn’t trusted me for millennia!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A tense peace lasted five weeks until an argument broke out between deputies and striking coal miners. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

She saw Feral, stricken dumb, his mouth actually agape. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The umpire called the strike in a loud, clear voice, and I saw Sidney Goldberg look over at me and grin broadly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But I’m making one to Shiloh that I will, God strike me dead. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not at Argos in Akhaia, but blown off course, held up in some far country, is that what gave the killer nerve to strike?” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you strike the “Q” key a second time, another letter lights up. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If the fever was so close it might strike here next, perhaps it already churned in the bodies of the townspeople. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We in the Youth League had seen the failure of legal and constitutional means to strike at racial oppression; now the entire organization was set to enter a more activist stage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the Westerkerk clock strikes; it's half past eleven. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s something about what he said that strikes me as funny, but I can’t say why. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Don’t think of me as elder; come, strike out at me with your words, or something else. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thunder and lightning seemed to strike just over our heads, the sound magnified by the metal roof and walls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This battalion of heroes ventured out into the stricken city every day without fail. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

People bargained and haggled loudly, while others hung back, as if waiting for their chance to strike. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But with the strike now the nation’s biggest story, things were not turning the policemen’s way. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I know it is only a matter of time before he strikes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The strike against wage cuts swept west along the rails through Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, to San Francisco—100,000 workers halting commerce for forty-five days. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Why? Do you find this”—he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose—“distracting?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They strike the floor with five separate tones: a miraculous, brief song in an ancient pentatonic scale. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all Spurge and Werfel could do to convince their kingdoms to sort out their own problems instead of striking out in rage and hysterical fear. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He scrambled beneath me, making angry sounds and striking my face as he tried to use the bar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Head thrust forward the way an animal might before it strikes. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No bullets striking us, no mortar shells exploding. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If those insects are fading and the first bolt is about to strike the tree, then all its power will come surging down that wire and anyone in contact with it will die. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, during the strikes I was often in the position of remonstrating with some of my more wayward colleagues who did not want to abide by our agreement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, Arkush writes, Chinese proverbs are striking in their belief that “hard work, shrewd planning and self-reliance or cooperation with a small group will in time bring recompense.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

During the first day of our strike, we were served our normal rations and refused to take them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he fail to recognize the actor’s familiar, thick black hair, pale complexion, trademark mustache, and striking good looks? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it strikes me I may have been a little hasty before in dismissing certain aspects of the Hayes Society's criteria for membership. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But she felt small and mean that day, felt like striking, felt like lashing out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She said when they got him back to Savannah, got him in prison there, they whipped him until a doctor who was standing by watching said, “You will kill him if you strike him again!” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Ted, what strikes you as the oddest thing about Salim’s disappearance?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra turned one wheel, turned another, turned the whole thing around, and then looked up at Will, stricken. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I give the piñata a strike with the broom, and sure enough, I hit it on the first try. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A cacophony of the buzzing fluorescent lights and fingers striking keyboards filled the stale air. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His face was stricken and bloodless as if he had been stabbed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometime they’d strike out and seize the military supplies they knew the provincials were collecting. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Major Major had three strikes on him from the beginning— his mother, his father and Henry Fonda, to whom he bore a sickly resemblance almost from the moment of his birth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Some would not have hesitated to strike down the Shavepate as a traitor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right. If you strike me down, my apprentice will simply bring me to the nearest revival center, and in a day or two I’ll be as good as new.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The execution strikes us as pedestrian and thus out of tune with the conception of the work. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swung the shutter across the open window so the morning sunlight wouldn’t strike in on his face, and tiptoed out. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hit it again, and once more it bent and gave and he found that even when he didn’t strike it but just pushed it, it still moved. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leveled McWatt out with another harsh cry and whipped him upward and around again into a ragged blue patch of unpolluted air just as the bombs he had dropped began to strike. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“God bless you all in the name of Christ!” she shouts, striking at the air with her fist and sitting down, her face red, nose red, tears everywhere, in my own eyes as well. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had long tolerated false allegations with tactful restraint, but he saw this as a strike against his honesty and an attempt to group him with the race-fixers from the sport’s past. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time a sparrow passed by he would grin vacantly and strike up his song. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The idea is, the long pulpit puts the harpooner right over the fish so he can strike down at them before they feel the boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pipkin and Blackberry were waking, more at the stamping than the voice, which was thin and novel, not striking through their sleep to any deep instinct. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the carpenters’ strike did not trouble Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He thought she would take him down with an elbow strike, but instead she grabbed him, pulling him forward even as she appeared to push him back. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A master of striking was like a chemist or a winemaker, but also a kind of magician. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He became the stuff of legend, with twenty-seven pitches in a row thrown for strikes, a single season in which he hit thirty home runs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he read on, an old man sat down at his side and tried to strike up a conversation. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried left, then right, but kept striking rock. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The striking thing about Ericsson’s study is that he and his colleagues couldn’t find any “naturals,” musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time their peers did. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I have neither, which means I started CHS with two strikes against me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

One poor kid stood there long enough to hear strike one go past, then threw up all over home plate. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff strikes a match and lights his cigarette, then gives a curt nod. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Compared to her sparring practice with Hazel, the strike was ridiculously slow. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On March 17, American B-52s began striking targets across the Vietnamese border in Cambodia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Chemical control of insects seems to have proceeded on the assumption that the soil could and would sustain any amount of insult via the introduction of poisons without striking back. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I strike certain color schemes and hair textures from consideration. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He sidesteps again, then a third time—on the fourth strike, Hideo lunges. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

O’Dell was to strike the match and hand it to me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He ascends, falls at a slope, strikes the rebar and returns to the ground. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For a heartbeat, Scarlett thought that her mother was going to strike Mr. Frost, who just looked worried. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He took charge, stripping away the right to strike and appointing Judge Samuel Alschuler as federal administrator to arbitrate all disputes between the packers and the union. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This didn't strike me as unusual, as the creators of these rides seemed to have taken the extra step in making their attractions just that much more hideous than they needed to be. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“SuperMexican strikes again,” I said, pulling the headphones down around my neck. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Employers eventually agreed to government arbitration to end the strike. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

People aren’t ordinarily carried in chairs in New Hampshire, and as they raised him up he looked very strange to me, like some tragic and exalted personage, a stricken pontiff. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of inmates were there to receive us, sticks in hand, striking anywhere, anyone, without reason. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as soon as the strike began, the Seattle Central Labor Council called for a general strike of all workers throughout the city—an unheard-of act. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The thought of exploring these buildings doesn’t strike me as particularly scary, though, since the whole town seems deserted. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

To some suddenly it seemed that they saw a snake coiling itself to strike. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Turtle had dashed in shouting: "The braided tortoise strikes again!" and kicked a surprised Theo in the shin. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he was completely out of strike funds and the commodity food from the state was dwindling. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Several dozen warriors lowered their spears and made a ring around them, wisely keeping out of striking distance of Percy’s sword. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She could hear nothing but Basta’s shouting, and she ran back toward him, helpless but wanting to strike him through the bars, right in his bellowing face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The combined effect of race-based peremptory strikes and the automatic exclusion of people with felonies from juries has put black defendants in a familiar place—in a courtroom in shackles, facing an all-white jury. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“And you don’t strike me as the sparkly-clothes type. No offense.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You better quit playing before Jesus strikes you dead!” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

What is most striking about the design of the current caste system, though, is how closely it resembles its predecessor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They could not get the stretcher from the medical center because the medical administrative staff was on strike, too. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The white flashing underside of the sky and the sun striking the water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In retaliation, MacArthur ordered massive bombing strikes against "every installation, factory, city, and village" in North Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede strikes early and hard, lunging out and striking the other girl viciously across the face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He raises his eyebrows when he is about to strike, his signal to me to protect myself. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In 1943, a strike at the R. J. Reynolds factory in nearby Winston-Salem brought the always present but rarely discussed class divisions within that black community to the surface. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting ready to go all the way—nothin’ but strikes!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And those who were stricken with it fell slowly into an ever deeper dream, and then passed to silence and a deadly cold, and so died. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and Ah makes and sucks ’em when de notion strikes me. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Definitely not worth risking another strike on my record. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pooky Suggs, who hadn’t been to church in twenty years, said this preacher had it right and gathered a group of men around him to announce a wildcat strike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The proponents of hunger strikes argued that it was a traditionally accepted form of protest that had been waged all over the world by such prominent leaders as Mahatma Gandhi. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the feeling of the general public — bolstered by the press’s focus on the “poverty- stricken” Catherine O’Leary and the “drunken” firefighters — wasn’t sympathetic at all. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each week I pick up more art books, storybooks, poetry books, and anything that strikes my fancy. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

We shall strike the strength out of ’em. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bull, striking into the wood from side to side with his horns, made a great noise. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even the Alacrans couldn’t strike out 100 percent of the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had a striking sense that if I’d had a son, he would, at the core, be a lot like this brainy, combative oddball sitting in a musty apartment in a small Idaho town. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Trust me, when nighttime strikes, you want to be in bed.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were taken one by one to a laboratory, and of course this made them all very frightened; how cruel it would be, Lyra thought, if she perished without striking a blow at them! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The words begin to shoot around the cell, exploding off the walls, striking Helmuth like bullets. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die? The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Retire? He young man. Too young to retire. Big Skiff, he the best harpoon. Always strike good fat fish! Tell him I say ‘hi,’ okay?” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Two strangers stood on the doorstep, one a small woman with a light brown complexion and curly hair and the other a striking dark-skinned man in his early twenties. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Maryland National Guard fought its way through striking railroad workers in Baltimore on July 20. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

So matters stood when there came into the stricken country a stranger, a man of great courage and great intelligence, whose name was Oedipus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only a flash of lightning would strike him! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, she understood the king’s ashen face and stricken eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I slashed with Riptide, a good strike to the flank that should’ve cut the monster into Meow Mix, but the blade just clanged against its fur in a burst of sparks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“How about the striking coal miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Take it in your right hand. Lord strike you dead on the spot, if ever you split in any way sumever! Kiss it!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You was lately so anxious for to strike a man,” Clippinger taunted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The strike that was talked about never came off because they could not get together. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We know that it is tough and thick enough so that when hard objects strike it from the outside they burst into flames. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear the bowling thunder,” I tell him, “and my lightning is about to strike you down!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“And yet,” said I, “beneath the surface of the earth, the sapper-composer would not constantly be exhausted by the particles striking the eye. The eye would have rest. No longer would the face receive blows.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The lab staff was on strike, too, so Papa-Nnukwu could not have the tests done. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There is nothing there that strikes you as at all odd?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the language of his thoughts—variation, mutation, survival, and selection—bore striking similarities to Darwin's. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sounds of metal striking wood rebounded off the stone walls. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She longed to swim again, to strike out and stop treading, but she didn’t know which way to head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The contrast couldn’t have been more striking if C.P. had been wearing his Klan robes and Ann been caught as she was about to heave a Molotov cocktail. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It lasted only a minute or two, and nobody was hurt, but even so Lieutenant Jimmy Cross got on the radio and ordered up an air strike. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both avatars looked Japanese, and they bore a striking resemblance to one another, like snapshots of the same young man taken five years apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman, your benefactress’s son! Your young master.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I waited and waited for him to strike a trail. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the nothingness, a clock begins to strike midnight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The air was full of flying dust and stone particles, part of the trouble lay in keeping one’s eyes open while striking. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked it up, wishing with all my strength that a thunderbolt would strike me dead to ashes on the spot. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In my experience, a political strike is always riskier than an economic one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Y’know, it strikes me that it’d do the Father Abbot’s heart good to see that tapestry back in its rightful place again.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Some people were only lightly affected; some were stricken with all the savage force of the illness. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I vividly remembered the flat black color of his eyes the last time he’d glared at me — the color was striking against the background of his pale skin and his auburn hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In theory, peremptory strikes may increase the fairness of the proceeding by eliminating jurors who may be biased but whose biases cannot be demonstrated convincingly to a judge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Come on, now. Want me to strike the match?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or anyhow that’s how it strikes me. I’m going to kill you,” he said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The constant threat of strike and the onset of deep cold shaded the new year for Burnham, but what most concerned him was the fast-shrinking treasury of the Exposition Company. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He watched the growth of the trees and felt wildfires burning across the landscape, experienced lightning strikes on the granite domes, and suffered the slow inevitable advancement of glacial ice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I do not hear his fingers strike a match against the side of the box. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two moons passed before I realized that danger lurked in the shadows, licking its lips and waiting for the perfect moment to strike. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I could strike him now,” the shadow whispered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the strike began, the US Senate Committee on Education and Labor began to investigate the walkout by holding public hearings. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When they returned to jail, many of the women continued with their hunger strike. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They returned with bad news: the buses and trains were filled; people were ignoring the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mining families scratched out a living any way they could, with the union providing strike pay from dues paid by members in other parts of the country. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A lightning that cannot strike twice, our lesson learned in the hateful speed of light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“May chicken pox afflict you if you lie. Who told you it was my sister’s body that you saw? Who told you? Do not lie here. Cholera will strike you dead.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kaiser, debt- ridden after a series of failed management initiatives and a long strike, closed the plant in 2001 and sold the factory carcass for salvage. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A bald eagle riding up the mountain on a rising thermal saw Blue Bill move and circled to strike. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sixteen children and young people were stricken with the mysterious fever, and none of the familiar remedies seemed to be of any benefit. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

We did not have a strike though we saw some circles on the water from rising fish. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He saw pikemen strike down sentries of the enemy at the town gate and take prisoner the Welsh guards. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“You strike me as a reader. Am I right?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The boy swung the iron rod again, striking the mercenary squarely in the ribs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A swashbuckling adventurer wearing armor and a winged helmet stood with a glowing blue sword raised over his head, preparing to strike a troll cowering before him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, it’s like history for dummies. No, strike that. It’s like white male history for dummies. The professor totally ignores every major contribution by anyone who wasn’t a white dude.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Within a thousand years it would strike Tierra del Fuego. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Ah yes. How it’s all right to burn our clothes when the mood strikes us because we’re going to die young?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But deep in his heart there was something that restrained him; he could not strike this thing lying in the dust, forlorn, ruinous, utterly wretched. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

An Air Force general blessed with the surname of Power warned a shaken Senate committee that the Russians could render this country defenseless with a missile strike lasting only thirty minutes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

However, the tattoos were always her most striking characteristic, and they’re as golden and shocking as ever. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The menu above the bar is illustrated with a skull and crossbones, and it’s striking to see the skull smiling. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Rounds from our destroyers passed over our heads to strike the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron’s fist was drawn right back; his face was contorted with rage; he was about to strike again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And everything that has been happening in Haiti— the demonstrations, hunger strikes, the voting and all—they have to do with us, Djo. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Fela understood, except she thought I was trying to strike a deal with the evil one. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mass action consisted of strikes, demonstrations, and boycotts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She added, “I should wish if possible to avoid giving pain to your fathers religious friends who are deeply attached to him, and I picture to myself the way that sentence would strike them.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found the stricken rider distracting himself from his pain by firing off aphorisms from Ralph Waldo Emerson—“Old Waldo”—at the nurses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Blackavar striking at Campion and Campion turning to run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I heard about the strikes, and I figured I’d take a note from the anarchist’s playbook, go Frick him up, if you catch my drift. I suppose you had the same idea, huh?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Earl was back closing the safe, and then the clock begun to strike. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow was almost a foot deep and already the oxen were having trouble on the hills, slipping and stumbling when their hooves would strike an icy patch or a pothole hidden beneath the snow. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then comes a brief silence—the familiar stillness after a strike. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wessels was a direct man and demanded to know why we were on a hunger strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most striking discoveries came on the second floor, in the walk-in vault. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After a while he said, ‘You ever have any strikes here?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And so the little ones went on strike. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea for a spy plane that could strike deep into Soviet territory had captured the imaginations of CIA planners since the beginning of the Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hard-liners suggested that if we had deployed pickets, the strike would have been a success. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she had morning sickness the same time as the flu was going around school, so that was strike number two. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As you are so eager for battle, you shall strike our first blow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And now that spring was here, the Soviet Union tried to strike back against the German forces. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The eyes of thousands, stupefied with disgust at having been imported by Mr. Armour, Mr. Swift, Mr. Montgomery Ward to break strikes then dismissed for having done so. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Bast was there, barreling into the mercenary with one shoulder, striking him with such force that the man’s body shattered one of the heavy barstools before slamming into the mahogany bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Other eggs were taken from nests left unattended as parent robins were stricken with poison; these too contained DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

However, official records of union people like Fannie killed over decades of worker strikes are spotty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The men voted to submit demands for increased wages and benefits to the packers on Saturday, July 26, and, barring a satisfactory response, to go out on strike on July 28. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Between one eyeblink and the next, the prince’s balled fist strikes the boy hard across the jaw, sending him sprawling. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Fly, like, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, and carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Enough, my lords. If I had a dozen vans, all of you should have one, but the greatest glory by rights belongs to the greatest knight. Ser Loras shall strike the first blow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It strikes further back in his memory, around the time his parents split up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Clothing is also a favorite reason; jurors have been stricken for wearing hats or sunglasses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I took but a few more steps when a beating sound, as if someone were striking a drum, came from behind. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we were in striking distance of a plantation known to the pilot, we put out in the boats and made our way to shore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When these reserves of fat are drawn upon the poison may then strike quickly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The eyes are the most striking and astonishing aspects of the face.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The people in the foyer are equally striking. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Communications were not very efficient in those days, particularly in the townships where few people owned telephones, and it was a frustrating task to oversee a strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the merchantmen that called at Lordsport had been allowed to depart again; his father wanted no word of the hosting to reach the main-land before he was ready to strike. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I relit the candle, my hands shaking so I could hardly strike the match, and went to the front. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But he forgets to cover his head, and the buckle strikes hair and skin and bone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I heard about the strike,” I said as she capped her fountain pen. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t it dangerous to lower one’s guard, even for a moment, when death could strike at any time? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Even if he'd fought, who would have dared to strike the king?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Paul had spent five weeks in jail; she had been on a hunger strike for twenty-two days. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They knew that the black man had all the strikes against him, that the white man kept the black man down, under his heel, unable to get anywhere, really. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gale does look striking in the uniform, I guess. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Wearing a blue suit with a little trim of white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket, Ivory made a striking figure, his poise like that of someone thirty years old instead of seventeen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It strikes me that, although I know he’s a Commander, I don’t know what he’s a Commander of. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The situation was immediately made worse by certain members of the striking police force, who circulated through the crowds, encouraging them to create even larger disturbances. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It was indeed a sight to strike terror into the bravest heart. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sometimes possessed of strange rages and would strike out with his walking stick and even smash the furniture. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most striking, perhaps, is the overwhelming evidence that implicit bias measures are disassociated from explicit bias measures. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Gandhi, the champion of Indian freedom, is on one of his umpteenth hunger strikes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“He did not strike you as an evil personality.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

That being done, he felt that he was ready to ‘hide his stricken heart, and still toil on’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a laser beam from Earth strikes the mirror and bounces back, the round-trip travel time can be measured with remarkable precision. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the fiery ashes hit the floor, the birds re-form and strike again. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her arms are crossed, and she sways from one foot to the other, like a cobra waiting to strike. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Paddles strike heads, backs, arms, with horrible crunching, battering sounds. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The reconciliation that the Committee of Thirty-Four suggested would have allowed the police to organize and stated that if the police called off the strike, there would be no disciplinary action taken against their leaders. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Alice Cannon: My niece looks so beautiful and striking in that red coat! The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And his face looks stricken, but I’m not sure by what. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

No one wanted to strike a false note. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then she would float on her back and put the abalone on her breast and strike it again and again with the rock until the shell was broken. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Nay," I said, gambling that he would not strike me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Plants treated with various phenols suffered profound destruction of chromosomes, changes in genes, a striking number of mutations, “irreversible hereditary changes.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“She’s not a stricken deer anyway,” said Ned, trying to be witty, and succeeding as well as very young gentlemen usually do. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A realization strikes me like lightning—the crown isn’t what we came for. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"It's already seven o'clock" he told himself at the latest striking of the alarm clock, "already seven o'clock and still such a fog." The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fearing that the other Mexicans might try to get back at him, Paniagua decided to strike out on his own. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Among them was a striking Negro man, tall, slender, elegantly dressed—the “Valentino” type. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head strikes the floor, and then he’s kicking me until my flesh is minced. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They hiss loudly as they strike, and burn themselves a socket in the ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The mongoose swiped a paw through the air and the mamba lunged, striking at its paw with terrifying accuracy. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The death of Violetta was meant to strike shame into Verdi’s audiences’ hearts, as it did the meddling father of her lover in the final scene. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

‘But he wields great dominion, nonetheless,’ said Gimli; ‘and now he will strike more swiftly.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Chicago’s Commercial and Financial Chronicle reported, “Never before has there been such a sudden and striking cessation of industrial activity.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Kaede flips her hair at the audience and strikes a mock pose for them, which makes them go wild. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Fern didn’t bother to ball up her fists or bang them at her sides, her warning that she was about to strike. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the old man persisted in his attempt to strike up a conversation. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But supposing,” said Kay, “that one side was the one to make the threat, while the other side was the one to strike the first blow?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Epicurus maintains that everything we see, we see because a fine film of atomies is constantly shed by all matter, a sort of mist of particles which strikes the eye.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself making a speech and caught in striking poses by flashing cameras, snapped at the end of some period of dazzling eloquence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could cry out, Jesper lunged forward and rammed the butt of his rifle into the guard’s gut, then finished him with two strikes to the jaw. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He kept striking the vinyl seat with his fist. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say the hydrogen bomb makes no noise: there’s only a blinding white flash that strikes cities dead. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee had already underwritten the funeral and sent a wash basket of groceries to the stricken families. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The committee, aware of the chaos that a police strike would bring about, felt strongly that a compromise could and should be worked out. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

"Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I heard the clock strike at least a half an hour ago. She ought to be home by now.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon solemnly promised to defend South Vietnam with air strikes if North Vietnam violated the terms of the Paris Peace Accords. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It strikes me that you could be just the stag for her. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was shocking to see the enemy they’d been assured was nearly defeated strike with such ferocity. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He looks back to my articles, strikes them with violent red marks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After her arrest, she takes a plea deal, spends several years in prison, and is released with two strikes on her record, one for each burglary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Truly I thought I couldn’t possibly have anything left of my soul to sell to him, but we have managed to strike another bargain. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I awoke to a jolting piece of news: the unions at my newspaper had gone on strike. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had dark hair and striking blue eyes, once likened to the eyes of a Mesmerist. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Germans continue to strike Poland hard and fast, in a new kind of warfare called a Blitzkrieg, a lightning-fast war. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of 1919, Curtis had fired the entire striking police force and, as he said he would, hired a whole new one. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Nobody’s buying the hunger strike,” 1 told him, “and you definitely need to back off this Mandela thing.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But as he prepared to strike, George and Martha leaned in close and whispered something in his ear. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The resemblance between the old Helen and the new was so striking, he could not look too long. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the danger of a scuffed nail’s striking a spark and setting off the powder. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those workers who wanted to join the strike were welcomed into the union. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Apparently feeling about the issues is striking more than one nerve center.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So far as my social life goes, what strikes me as a good idea is leaving him in the basement wrapped in a cocoon of pink insulation.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was given to me by a Vera Cruz girl; they are very generous,” he replied, striking a match and lighting his cigarette. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we would support any strike of prisoners for whatever reason they were striking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she yanks away, taking several steps backward and staring at me with stricken eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

For a moment he fought against it, as if he could strike at the vision with his hands, his flailing legs, but soon he was overcome by a sudden and intense peace. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I covered my eyes with my hands and waited for him to strike me again. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A necklace, its square blue sapphires girdled by glittering diamonds coated in dust, except where a few fingerprints allowed the light to strike through. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lightning strikes the fence, and the electricity runs through the metal links and then through me. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Seven only knew the very basic things, like the spell for dodging attacks—evitar—and a low-level striking spell—zarpazo. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

No longer pale and stricken, her eyes were bright. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their blades blurred—strike and parry—and the pavement trembled. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I remember, when I was a kid, once seeing my father strike my mother for absolutely no reason. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The somer-keirimer cycle strikes us as degrading, a return to the estrous cycle of the lower mammals, a subjection of human beings to the mechanical imperative of rut. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was going slowly enough now that I figured I’d startle one away before it would strike me, but as the sun rapidly descended I became less sure. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He galloped through the infantry as if they were not his enemies at all—not even troubling to strike at them—pressing his charge against the armoured core itself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That room was silent with the fury of avenging angels sharpening their radiance before they strike. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first reports that air strikes were under way came in on Monday. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She landed on the pavement in the shadow of, almost striking her head against, the flaming rent-a-car. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilot called in an air strike and within minutes American planes sped over the village, dropping bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the very bottom of the page, past some fluff story about the anniversary of some train conductors’ strike, was a picture of Clancy Gray. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This praise didn’t help when the two men went too far by putting on a play, The Cradle Will Rock, about labor strikes and corporate corruption. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He hardly tried to strike an offensive blow; it was all he could do to ward off those of his opponent. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him if he could not get together with some of the others and strike for better wages. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And may God—if He exists, that is—strike me blind if the kite didn’t just drop into his outstretched arms. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He began giving money to support causes like labor unions and striking farm workers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In comparison, the tanned, youthful faces of Mr. and Mrs. Das were all the more striking. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nazism and Lysenkoism were based on dramatically opposed conceptions of heredity—but the parallels between the two movements are striking. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s left fist was slowly lifting to strike. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the strike launched as soon as possible. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It strikes me then that I’m being an idiot. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the country barely had time to catch its breath when, less than two weeks later, the largest strike that had ever taken place in the United States began. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Sunlight shines on Europa in its orbit around Jupiter and is reflected back to space, where some of it strikes the phosphors of the Voyager television cameras, generating an image. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slave had no rights, and certainly no excuse for striking a white man. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No one can bring down the cavern of Mithras, especially with one strike. Especially not a girl!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Students hoped for short strikes, because they could not hope to have no strike at all. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Below this, striking her customary insouciant pose, was the B&I Wolverette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t get fair wages and safe working conditions, they could strike. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He heard a clock strike the half hour, then people began to pass, in Sunday and easter clothes. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And suddenly, at the sound of the mingled voices, the animals were stricken with curiosity. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She raised her arm as if to strike him. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He set upon Julian like a Tom 'a Bedlam, striking edgeblows, downright blows, blows which had no name. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It controlled the defiant flare of his nostrils and the striking of the match against the box. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When the strikes had reached a fever pitch, Katz must have come down here—to what? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And before the clock had finished striking, the telephone rang. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The possibility of lightning striking the tower was very much on my mind.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped inside the giant’s guard and stabbed at his chest, but somehow Ephialtes parried the strike. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had hardly seemed to be aware of them, and they saw him more clearly than he saw them: they saw someone young, but very strong, and deeply stricken. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I also issued press statements affirming that the strike was a peaceful and nonviolent stay-at-home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex reacted quickly, striking out with the heel of his right hand. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It strikes him that there is no term for what they once were to each other. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, there’s deep political analysis. He’s leading a demonstration for striking sanitation workers, so he must be a Communist.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Randall retained the services of a witch to goofer his property so that no one with African blood could escape without being stricken with hideous palsy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She seemed so much older, or maybe it was her striking resemblance to Aunty Ifeoma or the way she stared me right in the eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes opened wide in their dark pits, and his thin, skeletal arms flailed the air before him as if he were striking at the furies of hell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such sessions were delicate, as my fellow prisoners knew that the authorities would attempt to influence me to call off the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a crack in the parent wall, so I decide to strike with lightning speed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He might have done better to strike down Mance the moment he revealed himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I did not feel the first trout strike. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Why are you come here, Jane? It is past eleven o’clock: I heard it strike some minutes since.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I opposed the May Day strike on the grounds that the ANC had not originated the campaign, believing that we should concentrate on our own campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The albino fairy flew up and gave the imp a kiss on the mouth, and it became a striking fairy with fiery red hair and iridescent dragonfly wings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of May 8, Richard Nixon announced that American planes had begun striking industrial targets in and around Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I took every opportunity to go into town and strike up a conversation with anyone willing to talk with me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

This notion came to Prendergast initially as a glimmer, like the first sunlight to strike the Masonic tower each morning, but now he thought of it a thousand times a day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The bloody, stricken faces of those women will not leave my mind. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Seattle Strike, the first general strike in the United States, takes place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Does God strike me for defying his deputy? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Holding flashlights and sticks, they began to strike at us left and right, shouting: “Everybody out! Leave everything inside. Hurry up!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The same point does not strike you? No, evidently not. Well, it is a small matter.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train rumbles over a bridge; the setting sun is feverishly beautiful, casting a striking pink glow on the facades of the clapboard houses that dot the water’s edge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Say Lord strike you dead if you don’t!” said the man. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

And if the mood strikes, the prosecutor can transfer drug defendants to the federal system, where the penalties are far more severe. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We knew this for a simple reason: by the second day of a hunger strike, no one needs to use the toilet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no time to erase the stricken look on my face, but, lucky for me, she associates it with the conditioner and curling iron that I left on the desk. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Mass action was perilous in South Africa, where it was a criminal offense for an African to strike, and where the rights of free speech and movement were unmercifully curtailed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was eating I heard a clock strike the hour. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes only two or three bad epidemics of disease to strike, and suddenly the group is gone. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But late at night, I heard them murmuring of how the rebels freed Scholar prisoners while striking out at the Martials. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Boo soared near the ceiling, gleefully shouting, “I told you so! This is why you need to do your homework! Evil strikes whenever it pleases!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like a snake striking, a ghostly hand darted through the fog and clutched his arm. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I covered a mirror when a storm was raging, the lightning would not strike me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Greeks began a process that became unusually pronounced in Western music: emphasis on a VIP class of performers whose brilliance was intended to strike awe and enchantment into the hearts of the ordinary listener. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From there, he sent his most trusted general ahead to lead the first strike. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But the rash Arnold saw a chance to strike a crucial blow. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw my stricken expression, she tilted her head to the side as if to say, You okay? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as tens of thousands of private citizens and many government officials were concerned, these strikes were not simply motivated by hopes for higher wages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Pet’s footsteps were singing through the floor like mallets striking an ocean of drumskin, and they were heading straight for her parents’ bedroom. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I saw a scene that looked like an angry mob was ready to strike at anytime. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the most striking illustration is to be found in the cooperation between Great Britain, the United States of America and the Soviet Union in the fight against Hider. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are my creature, Jude Duarte. You will strike only when I tell you to strike. Otherwise, stay your hand. Do you understand?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Of interest to zoologists I can report the following: a tiger will not at first attack a shark out of water with its jaws but will rather strike at it with its forepaws. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The monster bared its fangs to strike and got a mouthful of Celestial bronze javelins. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Wherever my eyes turned they saw stricken, frightened black faces trying vainly to cope with a civilization that they did not understand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was seeing a doctor strike a tuning fork and hold it up to the sides of his head. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was in striking contrast to the messy reality of the workaday world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

These men, a picked striking force of gallants, resumed the onslaughts of the previous afternoon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the major strikes that took place in 1919 ended in defeat for the workers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

How could soldiers on the ground, bombs falling all around, call in the right coordinates for air strikes? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the ANC annual conference in Bloemfontein, the organization adopted the league’s Program of Action, which called for boycotts, strikes, stay-at-homes, passive resistance, protest demonstrations, and other forms of mass action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some radical group was holding a community meeting about police brutality, the new three strikes law in California, and the expansion of America’s prison system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Striking was the only way workers could try to influence the mine owners, but Fannie knew that the miners would not stay on strike if their children were hungry. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I will confess that until now, though I have prayed for the many stricken by this plague, the situation only touched me in a superficial way. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It has to strike them and sink in and be confirmed by other voices before they begin to sound like a herd of wounded animals, moaning, shrieking, calling for help. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The High Septon speaks for the Seven here on earth. Strike at him, and you are striking at the gods themselves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wished a bolt of lightning would strike me dead right then and there. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to slap her, but as I raised my hand I remembered Miss Lilian’s palm striking my cheek, the flash of pain. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He felt for the pack he’d been carrying and took something out, unfolding layers of oilskin and then striking a match to light a little tin lantern. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now all eyes were on the stricken Bailey. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most striking multiples are those when several people claim to make a discovery at almost exactly the same time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Verwoerd declared that those supporting the strike, including sympathetic newspapers, were “playing with fire,” an ominous declaration given the ruthlessness of the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first Marcus yanks his arm back, the belt sailing over his shoulder as he prepares to strike. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The bird hissed savagely and tried to strike, but still it did not move. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Schwartzie took two balls and a strike, then I saw him begin to pivot on the fourth pitch. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Nobody’s buying the hunger strike,” 1 told him, “and you definitely need to back off this Mandela thing.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was about to strike up a conversation with Matthias when Methuselah sent her packing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Bell chattered on, but Powell kept pounding up the stairs slowly, his boots striking the steps with dull thuds that echoed to the floors above. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the first and most successful of the hunger strikes on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your Grace," he said, "it is not seemly that the king should ride into the melee. It would not be a fair contest. Who would dare strike you?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Girl looks down, then takes a gun from her belt and strikes me hard across the face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Some, with furtive looks around them, conjured fires with their wands; others were striking matches with dubious looks on their faces, as though sure this couldn’t work. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His hand was drawn back as if to strike her. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And even as he espied them and came swooping down, he saw them fall, worn out, or choked with fumes and heat, or stricken down by despair at last, hiding their eyes from death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes. So wifely. But how will it work? Will you rotate between us on a schedule, or choose as the mood strikes you?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

More and more competitors were arriving, and soon the clock would strike nine—the time when the Test would begin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For many African Americans, the use of wholly discretionary peremptory strikes to select a jury of twelve remained a serious barrier to serving on a jury. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Police!” a voice bellowed, followed by the unmistakable whack of a club striking flesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I remember her appearance at the moment—it was very graceful and very striking: she wore a morning robe of sky-blue crape; a gauzy azure scarf was twisted in her hair. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

This time, they even complimented us on calling off the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wolf specialized in infiltrating the West German government, sometimes with "Romeo spies," who would strike up romances with unsuspecting single women—many of them secretaries to powerful generals and political figures. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One time in California, the grape pickers went on strike. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Painting, cartography and ballistics do not strike us as cutting-edge sciences but, once, they were. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Fearing that in her hot anger she might strike me, I grabbed up the Pauling manuscript and hastily retreated to the open door. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He stumbles onto the lawn, but when his bare feet strike the cold grass there is silence, and he realizes the ringing he’d heard had been a dream. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Far back, almost in darkness, he is poised to strike. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By analyzing families that possessed intergenerational histories of mental illness, the study found striking evidence that bipolar disorder and schizophrenia shared a strong genetic link. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

McShane knew the killer would feel safe and strike again; and this time, the police would be waiting for him.Parents went into action. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, I was the one who had been beaten up by the older boys when the union went out on strike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I backed away from them, striking the table in the process. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Coolidge had no interest in hearing suggestions that might have avoided such a strike or putting plans in place to patrol the city should it be without police protection. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Donna doesn’t say anything, but I can see hurt flash across her face, like a strike of lightning. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In fact - and this strikes one as rather curious -I cannot really recall seeing her more bereft than on that morning. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There have been acts of protest since the start of the occupation—an organized worker strike that was squashed quickly and left dead bodies in the streets. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I already have one strike against me by showing up Ethan. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court reversed, holding that when a pattern of race-based strikes has been identified by the defense, the prosecutor need not provide “an explanation that is persuasive, or even plausible.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The strike was the beginning of my close relationship with Marks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever one came near him, his hand would shoot out quick as a striking snake to close around it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The many strikes that characterized the year 1919 came at a time when American industry stood at the threshold of a long period of unprecedented growth and prosperity. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe little money goose his interest Harpo told me, Miss Celie, I’m going on strike. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you all right, my friend?” the man said, his voice hushed and stricken. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When was the Holy Spirit going to strike? Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the end, the state prevailed: the strike was suppressed and the union crushed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron asked the other two at once; he looked stricken. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It took the Windblown less than an hour to strike their camp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By spring 1940, the German army was prepared to strike again. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even though sometimes I have a big mouth, I find it hard to strike up conversations with people I don’t know. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On September 8, he called off the strike. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Next to her, Joaquin looked stricken, and he kept turning the envelope over and over, as if looking for another clue, as if he was playing Detectives, too. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Above Ralph the clock began to grind and groan and strike, bong...bong, as if it had to summon strength for each stroke. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then it strikes me that I’ve actually never said that to her. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When the lightning strikes, it’s dazzling, even from here, even in this bright sunlight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the sofa next to her, the two of us stricken by the other. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could die at any time. A freak lightning strike could fry your heart, or you could drown in a molasses tsunami.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, the story has some little-appreciated but striking parallels with the American prehistory that we encountered in the preceding chapter. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later they swapped the apples for wood, and the Irish immigrants who played called the disk a poc—the word for punch or strike a blow. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Afraid, listening to Woundwort’s approach, Bigwig could hear the uneven movement of his forepaws, almost within striking distance. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese, though, like the monster beings in our old stories, preferred to strike in the darkness. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was too far north, within striking distance of Union troops. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two outs, two strikes, one of which was a foul ball. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

On April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. To support the country’s war effort, the striking miners gave up many of their demands and went back to work. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The kabbalah was much more than number crunching; it was a tradition so mystical that some scholars say that it bears a striking resemblance to Hinduism. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He knew just where the head of the hammer would need to strike to kill the serpent. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The first thing I heard was, “The strike’s settled!” from Mr. Caton. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A low arrow strikes the ground, a high one may kill in the second rank. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the kiss that seals the union, the cheers, and a toast with apple cider, the fiddler strikes up a tune that turns every head from 12. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Artillery shells and bullets strike any man who dares to stand still. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I never said this was all I was ever going to do. It’s not always wise to strike as hard as you can at the first opportunity. This is a long race, not a sprint.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I strike out, swinging my body around, and see Locke grabbing Taryn’s waist. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“No! I didn’t mean .. . wow. I’m really striking out here.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was striking, like the profile of a conqueror on a bronze coin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She heard him open his cigarette case and strike a match. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite this second blow, after a few minutes the stricken man gasped violendy and began breathing again. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Would she turn him into a bug, strike him down with lightning? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Even as Taran drew his bow, Adaon was in the midst of the Huntsmen, striking left and right with his blade. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

After the strike, fifty-two men, including Kotane, Marks, and many other Communists, were arrested and prosecuted, first for incitement then for sedition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From today’s perspective, the success of the transition is striking. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I sit at the table opposite Pop and Dad and notice that their physical similarities are striking. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ungrateful girl!” he sputtered, and I thought for a moment he would strike me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Why did not the snake strike at once? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t help standing well back from the side, remembering the shark, though he knew, or felt sure, it had just been striking at the reflected moonlight. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My other sisters, in different ways, have become stricken with strange behavior regarding men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he’ll keep to any deal you strike with him.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But in the Transkei, as in all the other poverty- stricken homelands, blacks could not eke out a living. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father picked up a dry brush of yerba de la vivora and striking a match to it he used it as a torch to set fire to the platform. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched boxing matches on TV, so I knew how to strike back. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Particularly striking were new cases of AIDS—a 60-percent rise in three years. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The combination of the two strikes was too much for the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One could never tell where Zeus’s thunderbolt would strike. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbert’s representations that, if I did, I should probably be laid up and stricken useless, when our fugitive’s safety would depend upon me, alone restrained my impatience. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sound was made by metal striking metal, but what was it? Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone soared across the lawn like a bird of prey, striking the older beastkeeper in the back of the head so hard she fell from the wall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The boy fell and covered his head as the men began to strike him with their bats. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The poison has gone inward and it will strike soon. Come look!” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the packinghouse strike ended, the pre-strike configurations settled back into place. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As a stricken man clutches my face between his hands, I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He made his hand stiff and made a striking motion. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The boy couldn’t block all of his strikes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At the mere glimpse of one of the nibbling, button-eyed, bushy-tailed creatures, the children would freeze to attention, stare, hunker down, and approach silently in low, even crouches until within striking distance. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Might as well starve striking than working,” some said. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

They end each year with failure, but hope that when the clock strikes twelve, they can begin the new year with a clean slate. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A thought strikes me: Perhaps I will return home in glory after all. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Gleams of sun were striking through the hurrying clouds, and the forest now looked less grey and drear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

More than thirty minutes passed unnoticed as these scraps—memories, judgments, vague resolutions, questions—uncoiled quietly before her, while she barely shifted her position and did not hear the clock strike the quarter hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They sound like prudes, which, considering their oeuvre at Truman, strikes me as more than a little ironic. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The resulting effect was striking: a bright streak ten inches long, glowing lavender from its interaction with nitrogen ions in the atmosphere. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Did that strike you as odd, sheriff? Do you remember? That with all those lights drawing, the batteries still had plenty of charge, enough to turn the engine over with no trouble, as you say?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had lain tossing about, and had heard the clock strike only twice, when the night-watchman came to me, sent up from the ward, to say that Renfield had escaped. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

All these details about her clothing strike me as unfair, although I devour them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob wondered whether striking a Jew was a crime at all. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Almonds provide a striking example of bitter seeds and their change under domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She did not strike; she could not strike a coward. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Satisfied, my mother turns and strikes up a conversation with the woman behind us. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When she had her handmaids char the horsemeat black, the dragons ripped at it eagerly, their heads striking like snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He has a strict policy on no one leaving until everyone is done, so we have to wait until the clock strikes eleven and Soon-Lee puts her pen down. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Theo threw a complete game, striking out nine and giving up only two hits, just like the ace of a staff is supposed to. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Kabuo nodded and went back to work, his hammer striking efficiently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A clock somewhere began to strike the hour, and Bod counted along with it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“When you strike a woman, you strike a rock.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mama used to tear photos from magazines, photos of the Dust Bowl years in the 1930s in America, when a long drought had stricken the Midwest. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now it was leaping and hopping among the grass tussocks, striking at the two rabbits with terrible darts of its head. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sniffed at her again, and swiped at the ground with a clawed hand—striking deep enough to take out a chunk of stone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She didn’t strike me as the type to waste time on gossip. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Amaroq and Nails leapt at its face and sprang away before the bear could strike. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 11, five days after the walkout had begun, the strike committee voted to end it. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He remembered the feeling of his knuckles striking Willis’s cheek, and he didn’t care a doggone bit that he had enjoyed hitting Willis, minister’s son or not. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Paul Marshall lowered himself into the armchair lately used by the stricken Arabella. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She did not hear her feet scraping down the broad stairs, or the courthouse clock laboriously strike two-thirty; she did not feel the dank air of the first floor. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She cups the muzzle of one of the white horses, a striking Arabian with a silver mane and tail. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Especially for the innumerate, a few vivid predictions or coincidences often carry more weight than much more conclusive but less striking statistical evidence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warships are designed to withstand the strike of a torpedo or the blast of a mine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I saw the sparks striking against her and burrowing into her and she screamed a horrible howling scream and a puff of smoke rose up around her. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Grace wanted intrepid explorers who mined for gold—because they were about to strike it rich. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The country was starved of hope, cars stuck for days in long, sweaty petrol lines, pensioners raising wilting placards demanding their pay, lecturers gathering to announce yet one more strike. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He added that a Fischer victory would “strike at the uplifted propaganda fists of the Communists.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every heartbeat felt like a hammer striking his body. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I paid very little attention to what I heard, because the burden of his message did not strike me as being very original; I had been hearing variations of it all my life. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Then Skylla made her strike, whisking six of my best men from the ship. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at me like I’m a foreign object, which strikes me as both the same and different from how it used to be. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His burglary can be charged as a third strike because of his two prior felony convictions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sierra spun around, her whole body tensed to strike, but the corpse-like man was still nowhere to be seen. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, though, he goaded it into striking by tapping its nose, and only then did the snake give a warning buzz. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gushing water strikes the wall beneath me and sprays upward. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Alice was striking in a black satin dress with geometric cutouts that bared large triangles of her snowy white skin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I know you are the best knight in the world, but be careful ’ow you fight in a wrong quarrel God might strike a stroke for justice, Sir Lancelot after all.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you beat a kid up, it’s the same as striking him out. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the match, but she didn't strike it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her striking appearance and velvety contralto voice electrified audiences wherever she went, and as word of her performances spread, other cities were added to the tour. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Lightning might strike me down right here,” said Oliver. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As I scrambled to my feet, I looked back to see the brigade of attacking mothers within striking distance, shouting about how they weren’t going to have me in school with their kids. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But thanks to the strikes, there was a positive outcome for the labor movement as well. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

On the subject of politics he offered an enigma, “Whether you use bullets or ballots, you’ve got to aim well; don’t strike at the puppet, strike at the puppeteer.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The technique was so striking that the emissary could not help but choose Kang for a commission—Tree-ear was sure of it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the old days, it was inconceivable she’d have let something like that happen without striking back. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

William staggered, trying to spin and strike whatever was on his back with the table, when he heard Jeanne shouting directly in his ear. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“They don’t strike me as a very difficult bunch.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This way, I shall be able to strike all the more quickly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Cleveland’s newspapers were not alone in striking fear into the hearts of native-born Americans. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Let me light your candle,” she’d say, and strike an imaginary match. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could bundle up some of my clothes, and the sheets, and strike my one hidden match. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blue smoke settled over the stricken Plymouth, and he was gone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other strikes broke out around the country, and Debs began planning a nationwide general strike to begin in July. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Alex never had a single strike; every swing of the bat connected. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She traveled from city to city, telling people about the low wages and unhealthy working conditions at Marx & Haas, and asking them to support the striking garment workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It suddenly strikes me that Sam has not come over with his sister and mom like usual. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And that, the story went, is how man claimed ascendency over the world that was Zeru, while the demons were stricken from it by the angels. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Santa, what time you got? Ignatius says lie’s sure the burgulars is striking tonight and for me to get in early.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a match strike, a short, sharp inhale. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Behind me, I heard a grunt of pain and the hard thunk of a shoe striking flesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The strikes would open the public’s and the press’s eyes to the plight of America’s laborers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

"My grandson is a runner. I've never seen him race, and honestly, he doesn't strike me as fast, but he tells me he runs, so..." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as enough unconscious men had been collected in the ambulances, the medical officer signaled the bandmaster to strike up the band and end the parade. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Harry watched, aghast, as a long black snake shot out of it, fell heavily onto the floor between them, and raised itself, ready to strike. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It was dawn but not yet day when Thor, hungrier, angrier, and still sleepless, resolved to strike one final blow that would silence the snoring forever. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The alien who had just walked out of his room was also the man he felt passionately enough about to strike with all the fervor he could summon up. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tut tut, officer striking an enlisted creature! Bad form, old chap, thumping bad form!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, he lifted the hatchet and began striking the center of the log. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Taylor launched into a series of dance moves punctuated by ninjalike kicks and strikes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He feels only the raw, impassive surge of the moonlight as it strikes the tent above him and scatters. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I intercepted with Riptide, but his strike was so powerful, my blade could only deflect it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Lady Asha, I beg you, strike your banners and let me bargain for your life. You have used us fairly, and with honor. I will tell them so.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Though I knew that my enemy breathed at my back, waiting to strike, I trusted Horatio to protect me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It is especially striking that Australia has some of the world’s richest iron and aluminum deposits, as well as rich reserves of copper, tin, lead, and zinc. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We have invented slogans like "Three strikes and you're out" to communicate our toughness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She winged out, banked, and started back for another strike. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, my boy," he said, "you're cured. We are going to release you. How does that strike you?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting house smells of good things, so I push aside my worry that God will strike me down when I walk through the doors. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

First, very little is as striking as a well-worn cloak, billowing lightly about you in the breeze. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Despite these important efforts, what is most striking about the civil rights community’s response to the mass incarceration of people of color is the relative quiet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On other missions, Oshiro was sent out with an observation ground team to track B-52 bombing strikes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But homesickness would often strike them, spreading like a terrible fever; some wasted away out of sadness. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Who would bother striking up a conversation you might not live to finish? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It strikes both of us that this may be the truth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We moved well together and I imagined what a striking figure I was cutting on the floor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most striking innovation of the nineteenth century, as far as the language of science is concerned, was the introduction of the word ‘scientist’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That strikes me as a stupid thing to say. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t paid any attention to it except for the bus strikes and that Mississippi business. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Yossarian sank to the floor with a shriek, shutting his eyes in overwhelming terror as he saw the girl lift the knife to strike at him again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Rows of striking pins were controlled by levers on the outside of the cone, which was fixed to a square metal base with a bunch of crank handles. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But before I could strike, he rolled aside and was on his feet again. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a newcomer, a black man in what was historically a white man’s business, surfacing from obscurity with a weird name and odd backstory, hoping to strike a chord with the common Democrat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One of the most striking losses was the Carolina parakeet, a lovely, innocuous bird whose numbers in the wild were possibly exceeded only by the unbelievably numerous passenger pigeon. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Spirit Medium raised his walking stick, but Tendai wrenched it away before he could strike his sister. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I saw his finger slowly curling around the trigger and it was trembling like a snake about to strike. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ralph awoke much later when the clock began to grind and groan and slowly, as if in pain, strike eleven, the safe hour for mice to appear. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Late summer like this, if you want to stop the muck fire you got to stop the lightning from striking. They ain’t figured out how to do that yet.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure Morgant’s warriors didn’t strike you on the head and you didn’t notice it?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jason summoned another lightning strike, but this time Porphyrion simply deflected it off the tip of his spear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Louis Swift recalled his father’s strategy: “When...the strikes threatened his prosperity through no fault of his own, then he proceeded to do everything he could to break them.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One howl of agony is joined by another and another as Helene draws and shoots, fast as lightning striking. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Normally, part of Ellsberg’s job would be to monitor the American strikes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He heard the blade of a shovel strike pebbles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“With all the strikes that are going on, I was planning to interview him for the Arbeiter-Zeitung.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But there would be no lightning strike this time. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I staggered back in terror, only to strike a hard, unmoving body. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"I don't know," she says, striking the keyboard as if finishing a thought. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The shark’s mouthy expression and big black eyes looked human, as if it might strike up a conversation. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The public transportation workers had voted to end their strike. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The note was imprecise, and we did not know exactly when the strike had started or exactly what it was about. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the safest plan, but at least Jason had the satisfaction of knowing that he could call an air strike on this noisy mob of dead guys if the situation got dicey. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I backed away, crablike, further into darkness—like a crab retreating in pain when you strike two stones at the mouth of his underwater den. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is likely that both Cleopatra and Mark Antony tried to strike a deal with Octavian. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Granny used to strike as many wrong keys on the piano as Miss Effie Belle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They were not striking in support of us, but had decided that if we could do such a thing, why couldn’t they? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours ago, at around ten, that wave came out of the second section to the left of where the lightning strikes now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I was about to say more, from behind me came the harsh rap of a cane striking the floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Another bad move is to go climbing a tall metal ladder in the middle of a thunderstorm when lightning is looking for just two kinds of things to strike: tall things and metal things. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ahead, the first line was within bowshot of the enemy,- flights of arrows flew between the ships, hissing like striking snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In technical terms, the albedo of the moon is .07, which means that it bounces back only 7 percent of the light striking it, absorbing the other 93 percent. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a legitimate concern, but decisions should not be taken out of pride or embarrassment, but out of pure strategy — and strategy here suggested we call off the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason and Piper moved in for the kill, but, before they could strike, Hygeia’s legs popped back on like they were magnetic. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Kentucky that racially biased strikes violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He made clear that the strikes would be limited. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Our Father eyed that little pink woman and became inspired to strike up a conversation with Tata Ndu on the subject of false idols. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute, he stopped walking, faced us, and, newly energized, exclaimed that this incident — the assegai striking the wire — symbolized the clash between the culture of Africa and that of Europe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But surely the most striking fact about that day is how close it all came to disaster. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Katherine is there to help me, and when she turns me around two things strike me at once. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They tumbled into the snow like two drunken bears, kicking and striking at each other, and their cries and curses filled the air. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart let go a stricken gasp of dismay and hurled himself headlong into his jeep, almost sobbing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A rattlesnake, coiled, as thick as his upper arm, prepared to strike. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’ll be a lot of anger when that day comes, and strikes and disruption. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the cutoff, the union local, not certain what else to do about it, threatened to strike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When it became clear that the owners had no intention of doing so, workers began organizing strikes. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Good,” said Mr. Lemoncello, raising his bell and striking a heroic pose. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

And before I know exactly what I am doing, I'm striking the match. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Behind, his servants hurriedly began to strike his tent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This was the first general strike in the nation’s history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Similarly, nearly forty years later, researchers discovered that the Soviets had moved short-range nuclear cruise missiles into striking distance of the US military base in Guantanamo Bay. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I find the trees especially striking, the way the rising sunlight glints off the leaves, highlighting various shades of green in different places. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I write out the full name, then it strikes me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, even before Brown, the Supreme Court had already begun to set in motion a striking pattern of desegregation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m hurrying, making a show of bustle, it strikes me that one of my reasons for escape is that I don’t want to meet her mother coming back, from wherever she’s been. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The day before the strike, I was driving Ida and her twelve-year- old son home, and I mentioned that I needed her to wash and press some shirts for me the following day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since we got back to the ship,” Piper said, “I’ve been seeing some bad stuff in the knife. The Roman legion is almost within striking distance of Camp Half-Blood. They’re gathering reinforcements: spirits, eagles, wolves.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The most striking example of change in how evangelicals see themselves and their place in the world may be the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After a brief mention of the building, he turned to the action in Vietnam, emphasizing that the air strikes had been made necessary by the North Vietnamese torpedo boat attacks. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It cut into Tally’s ears like a vibrasaw striking metal, and every muscle in her body fought to get free of the handcuffs, her instincts demanding that she cover her ears. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He looked up and down the deck at the folded and stricken bodies; and he said, “When does a body know he has it?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I heard the clock, down in the parlor, striking every hour. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last half-century or so, sensibilities have changed, and the old practice now strikes us as lopsided. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life’s unfair, Sosie thought as she poised her stick to strike. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

On a whim I call Caroline to see if she’s on strike: no, not her hotel. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To this date, I know not what terms they discussed, what blasphemous deal they tried to strike, abhorrent to their humanity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But maybe she doesn’t pick me because I strike out a lot. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

At ladies’, I relate the news to Melissa, adding that the hotel workers already earn over a dollar an hour more than we do and that that hasn’t stopped them from striking for more. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t break the strike!” she called to them. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Goebbels himself—a failed novelist and playwright earlier in life—had taken to reviewing the scripts of nearly all films personally, using a green pencil to strike out or rewrite offending lines or scenes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The crest of the larger waves kept striking me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The strike staggered on for weeks, months, nearly a year. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

This time he jabs Cardan in the stomach, striking suddenly and with enough force for Cardan to sprawl on the stone floor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had a number of relations who were mineworkers, and during the week of the strike I visited them, discussed the issues, and expressed my support. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strikes a match and lights a candle, even though the sun is still up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even though it never worked, even though I wore a strand of rowan berries everywhere after that, it was all I could do for months not to strike him to the floor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He lays the torch against his hip and strikes flint. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The librarian said, “There’s no need for you to look so stricken. It’s not bad news, young man.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He orders the regimental band to play, hoping to strike fear into the enemy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just something to pass the time as I wait for my sentence from Tris, as I wait for our plan to strike the Bureau to come together, as I wait for something, anything. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s team also pleaded to the court that it strike down the deportation order requested by the United States and brought by the Japanese Immigration Bureau. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then the candor of the woman’s whole existence, which every one might read, and which formed so striking a contrast to her own habitual reserve—this might have furnished a link. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d begged off, but he wanted at least to tell someone about the strike and the extra fat check he had coming. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps more striking, he had never had any administrative experience. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A faint smile showed itself on her stricken face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Midgard serpent’s head was almost within striking distance. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And now that the post office was on strike, I had more time to save up. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger was about to leap at him to strike it out of his hand, but Capricorn made a sign to Flatnose. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It strikes me that without the man there, they might not have enough money coming in to pay the bills. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When the miners wondered if they should quit the strike, their wives told them to hang tough. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

We waited for the lightning to strike, but it didn’t. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A frozen banana tree, brow'n and stricken, languished against the front of the porch, the tree preparing to collapse as the iron fence had done long ago. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men smoked at the edges of the clearing, waiting to see how big the strike might be. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Day of Protest was a political rather than an economic strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Brand ran to me with a stricken face. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when one doesn’t see one’s family for many years at a time, the transformation can be striking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the whole thing doesn’t really strike me as your type of scene, but if you ask me, you’re overqualified for the job.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

After play started again, anything that didn’t actually roll in the dirt was called a strike. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped inside his strike and grabbed his wrist, slamming it against the wall. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ralph didn’t think so until Theresa pulled out some old photos; then it was striking that in profile, he did. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That strike was a clear victory for laborers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Going to try and lead the house-elves out on strike now, are you?” said George. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I mean there is one time when a robot may strike a human being without breaking the First Law. Just one time.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“If I know Octavian, he’s searching for us with his auguries. The Romans will send a strike force after us. It’s a matter of honor.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I stared at the tip, which moved from side to side hypnotically, like a cobra getting ready to strike. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For many months he had trained for this, and now he finally understood why Goddard always let the last one go before Rowan could strike, stopping him one blow short of completion. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For some reason, despite the demonstrable support of the strike vote among the force, he was absolutely certain that most of the police would remain loyal to him and stay on the job. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Geryon parried my first strike with a pair of red-hot tongs and lunged at my face with a barbecue fork. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘Apollo will hear you out. See if you can strike a deal. My brother always likes a good bargain.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The mantelpiece held, in brave confusion, photographs, greeting cards, flowered mottoes, two silver candlesticks that held no candles, and a green metal serpent, poised to strike. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It only just now strikes me as odd that I have been like a houseguest, confining myself to my room and the shared rooms only, never feeling free to roam the rest of the house. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I finally went on strike and refused to drink anymore. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The historian David Arkush once compared Russian and Chinese peasant proverbs, and the differences are striking. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The man’s laughter was lost in the drum of horse’s hooves striking the earth. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hunger strike!” she huffed when she was done, slapping the newspaper on the table. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was truth in his words, hard truth, a hammer striking stone. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Grandma sailed like a galleon into the front room, striking us dumb. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the clock strikes twelve, we go through what feels like an obstacle course of traditions: first everyone eats twelve grapes and drinks a cup of homemade cider. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

There are Syrians who blame Kurds for the war, for rebel strikes on schools and hospitals, for lots of bad things happening all over Syria. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Auntie Fatmata raised her hand to strike my face, I didn’t wince. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crowded together, and approached me as if they were ready to strike at me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

His body is bunched, a snake ready to strike. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Word was passed among us, and we resolved to initiate a sympathetic strike beginning with our next meal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What, did you think lightning would strike twice? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Actually, the thought of striking anything below the surface was so abominable that Malcolm put it out of his head at once. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

You need to strike up an agreement with it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You think I can get three strikes in a row like I did last time?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Remember the old vow: May God strike me dead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were pathetically good and patient, but he saw an officer strike a man who was screaming. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before she could strike hard and be driven down, the nose came back through the wind and the sails filled. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their goal was to investigate the structure of light by measuring the interval from the moment a quantum particle of light, a photon, strikes a target to the emission of an electron from its surface. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It strikes me, in my middle-class solipsism, that there is gross improvidence in some of these arrangements. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock the next day, 1,117 of the 1,544 men on the Boston police force went out on strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We would rather run the risk of confusing them while at least appearing to be sophisticated than take a chance at belaboring the obvious while striking them as naive or condescending. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The most striking object in the playground was without question the giant snail. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Or he would strike the palm of one hand with the fist of the other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray flopped back down on the couch, his face stricken, like he had seen a ghost. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I am sure,” said he. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Calvin was one of the boys who had made a practice of beating me up in grade school every time there was a strike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A ninja girl camouflaged in earth tones didn’t strike Leo as something he wanted to deal with just then. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Valencia was a striking, tightly wound Colombian woman with a closetful of short skirts and a singular talent for appalling her neighbors. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Air strikes from Bougainville would soon be hitting the main Japanese base at Rabaul so hard that it would be wiped out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Labor Day textile workers’ strike in North Carolina quickly spread across the South and up the Eastern Seaboard. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But there are very clearly patterns here, and what’s striking is how little we seem to want to acknowledge them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Most striking, however, was the atmosphere of easiness, of trust and warmth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than one hour after we had released a statement calling off the strike, the government-run South African Broadcasting Corporation read our announcement in full. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manhattan banned ships and travelers from the stricken town and posted guards at all arrival points, but its citizens also sent along $5,000 in aid. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Most striking here is the case of Newton, who, after he had made and published his great discoveries in the Principia, began to suspect that they were not new but merely rediscoveries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I went back, there was my uncle, rod in hand, but he didn’t strike — I told him, “There’s a boar in the forest.” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The army looked on in horror as the stricken victim shuddered and lay dead at Cluny’s feet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A group of soldiers came in looking for shelter and striking matches, just as he and Nettle had. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

More than four million workers stayed home in what was the largest political strike in South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your dad’s wrong, Sonny. This is no wildcat strike. Union headquarters is behind it. It’s going to be a long one.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Three strikes” laws have also played a considerable role. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He tends to strike to debilitate, light rapid hits that take an opponent down before they even know what’s hit them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The cops took turns striking Bucky with their nightsticks, fists, and feet. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t spent much time in New Hampshire, but it didn’t strike me as a place that was ready to welcome me with open arms. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn’t break the silence so much as it underpins it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Taryn’s eyes flash as she spins her sword in an elegant strike. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Governments across America at the time, including state legislatures and the US Congress, were too much under the influence of big business for the workers to gain the benefits they hoped the strikes would bring. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He pauses with exaggerated drama and strikes a ridiculous pose. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I want to strike Cardan over and over until I slap that smugness off his face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He also explained that it took so long to respond because the post office had been on strike. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I don’t care what Nita’s plan is, as long as it means striking the Bureau as hard as we can. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At least this was his chance to strike back, to hit out. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looks pretty close, so I heave the harpoon and pray for a strike. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then Basil would pause and strike his “Noble Stag” attitude, letting the rats get to within a whisker of him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She could reach the capstone easily, but she’d have to make her one strike count. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Seeing as I had regularly petitioned my parents for an electric fence, the business with the guards strikes me as the last word in quiet sophistication. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

If she loosed the arrow now, it would strike him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Winchell drops back to pass, throwing a perfect strike on a timing pattern to reserve split end Johnny Celey on the left sideline. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Socially, I had three strikes against me: I was an unmarried teenager with a light-skinned baby. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Finally, we were going to strike it rich. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before breakfast, I heard a little pebble strike the window of the bathroom. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I kept my hand on Riptide, ready to strike. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

His physical appearance was striking—ebony hair, a strict, angular face, nose like an arrow pointing toward fierce, deep-set eyes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As striking as these effects of barriers on crop and livestock diffusion are the effects on other features of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It jumped on the bench and caught Or­ange Juice at the wrist before she could strike. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had silver eyes and skin as pale as paper, and the contrast with her hair, as dark and glossy as an espresso bean, caused people to describe her as striking, if not pretty. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

As he shut the door behind him, his hand went unconsciously to the hilt of his sword to keep it from striking the wall or the desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Evidently my function in life is to strike fear into the hearts of those who love me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I always watch his hands to see which way they’re going to strike out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Black goes on about how he wants us to feel free to choose the places that strike our fancy, no matter how obscure or far away. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“True. But it’s shiny—especially when the sun strikes it just so.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the time comes to punish, we shall strike such a blow as’ll make their hearts faint and fearful. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Those who wanted to participate launched mass demonstrations and strikes, which soon spread to the Bophuthatswana civil service. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, instead of backing down, the women continued their protests in prison by starting hunger strikes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Brian turned the head backward so he would strike with the flat rear of the hatchet and hit the black rock gently. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three figures are only just recognizable by their most striking fashion choices: Venia’s gold facial tattoos. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then there would be no work of art and his remark would not even strike us as an interesting bit of conversation. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I ended up on a hunger strike, too. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's so barbaric, the president turning my bridal gown into my shroud, that the blow strikes home, leaving me with a dull ache inside. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It strikes me that the silent generation is my grandparents, and the idea of losing them causes a painful twisting in my heart. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t strike out on my own, and even with help it’s not worth the risk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the distance, a church clock began striking ten. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What will happen when...enlightenment actually comes to pass and the facts of heredity are...commonly known?” he wrote, with striking prescience, in 1905. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Although others were in a festive mood, and eager to celebrate, I knew the authorities could strike at any moment, and I did not want to give them the opportunity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, above a pond, the dragonflies dart and the sun strikes fire from their wings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

These are the greatest three strikes that a black man has against him in this country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As he watches her in the flickering light, it strikes Bailey suddenly that she is a fair deal older than she appears, and that the same is likely true of Marco. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But before he could strike again, a guard grabbed him, pulling him away with a force that yanked his shoulder back at an unnatural angle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

You’d of thought God was an old crony of his instead of somebody who could strike you down dead if He had a mind to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Look at them. Good reason why they does strike fear into the heart.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A ruddy-faced young man gave an unexpected sweep of his arm, striking me on the side of the head. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

With one expert strike, he broke the goddess’s handcuffs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the silence he could hear the clocks strike downstairs. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Once I had a strike: the line hardened suddenly and jerked back. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In any case, it was certain that he hadn’t intended to strike and hurt his wrist on the side of the washbowl. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Attack him, strike him down! Give me a sword and I will stand with you!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The practice of striking all or almost all African American potential jurors continued virtually unchanged after the Court's ruling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And if the old gods hear my prayer, Ramsay in his wroth might strike me dead as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Clinton planned to strike the French before Washington even knew about the landing. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life is good until Sunday family dinner when disaster strikes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The feeling of their spit striking me, running down my neck, and their germs accumulating on my face, felt disgusting. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But she had been hurting less as the days passed, and striking out less. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Port Royal was filled with contrabands, poverty- stricken, sick, homeless, starving. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, she heard a church clock striking. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they were whipping some seaman they had another man standing by his side with a bucket of salt water, which he would throw into the open whip-wounds after each strike. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some American leaders asked: Was Moscow planning a first strike? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“At my Lord Zeus’s command,” Artemis said, “my brother Apollo and I shall hunt the most powerful monsters, seeking to strike them down before they can join the Titans’ cause. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Frankly,” said Henry, unhooking his glasses and giving them a quick swipe with his handkerchief, “it strikes me as just the type of stupid thing that Bunny would do.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On April 20, Colorado National Guard soldiers aimed a machine gun at a union camp during a strike in Southern Colorado. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

This tactic was commonly used by industrialists to combat strikes and was well-known among laborers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A dazzling bolt of electricity strikes a towering tree and then a lightning storm begins. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know exactly who had set the dynamite, but they were desperate to get even, to strike out at someone—anyone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was staring and trembling and his great size seemed only to add to his air of stricken misery. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at my father’s face, trying to glimpse a smile or something like it on his stricken face. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly three hundred years later, in 1919, the United States experienced more labor strikes in one year than in any other year in its history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And on the final strike, the dark flames are replaced with a blinding white, a shower of sparks falling like snowflakes around it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t even strike it without some of its foulness seeping into her, draining her life force. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Despite increasing committee interference and intensified conflict between Burnham and Director-General Davis, and with the threat of labor strikes ever present, the main buildings rose. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Every night I’ve gone over it, again and again in bed, struggling to get the intonations right and strike the perfect nasal tone. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes for a moment and he could see her again, Mary, it may be for years, it may be forever, and Hancock’s face in tears, may God strike me dead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge issued shorter sentences—ten to fifteen days—so that hunger strikes wouldn’t be an issue. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

However, the uniform of that poster Marine was much more striking than his. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound, aside from Chubs’s sharp intake of breath, was Clancy Gray’s fingers striking the keys of the sleek silver laptop. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She knew her hair was not particularly striking. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Eight months later one of the boys was stricken with acute leukemia. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When the union voted to strike, eight thousand men walked off the job. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Suppose Long John Silver had suddenly appeared in your living room, striking out with his wooden crutch?” she whispered. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"I take it, Dr. Armstrong, that a woman would have been physically capable of striking the blow that killed poor Macarthur?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

As for his face, most striking was a bushy beard of such ruddy red it seemed as if the lower part of his face was aflame. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In order for a hunger strike to succeed, the outside world must learn of it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mugs were set on the kitchen floor and remained there until the cat chipped a tooth and went on a hunger strike. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In 1886 the big packing-house strike broke out in Chicago and Adam’s regiment en- trained, but the strike was settled before they were needed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One strike of the claws from these cuddly creatures and your in­nards will be scooped out and splattered all over the ground.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Like you, he let himself get too close, but then he also got himself dead. In my book these are two big strikes against him.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no hooks or string but if he could somehow lure them into the shallows—and make a spear, a small fish spear—he might be able to strike fast enough to get one. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then my scim strikes home, the hand is gone, and another eldritch scream pierces the air. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Looking at him from such close range, it strikes me now with certainty that it’s not the first time I’ve laid eyes on this totally unbelievable guy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They felt so stricken, upon hearing this, they sat down wailing loud, and tore their hair. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In minutes I hear the water gushing down the sluiceway, bubbling and chortling along until it spills out the end and strikes the paddles of the wheel just forward of its highest point. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s special seeing Coach strike like graceful lightning. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

You could tell her motto was “When trouble strikes—vanish.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The massive screen overhead might simulate the day and night sky, but it won’t have the crack of a lightning strike or rumble of thunder. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

King, who was in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers, told Hawkins that he just couldn't leave at that time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This dynamic had defeated the striking black tobacco workers in Winston-Salem in the 1940s. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Air strikes had also wiped out all of the Japanese planes on Guam that might have attacked our invading forces. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

During a shooting drill, Luma was teaching the boys how to strike the ball with the tops of their feet when she overheard a Sudanese boy talking to the others. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And it strikes me that this is exactly that—his show. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The strike, in which all seven major newspapers in New York City cease publication, will last 114 days, making it the longest newspaper strike in US history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Many of them were close-ups of leaves, and some of them were quite striking. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A three-day strike that is canceled on the first day is only a one-day failure; a strike that fails three days running is a fiasco. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Periboia tried to strike, doves rose up from nowhere and fluttered in the giantess’s face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The alternative view, which I advocated, was that stay-at-homes allowed us to strike at the enemy while preventing him from striking back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I’m not saying that the Chandrian are out there, striking like lightning from the clear blue sky. But folk everywhere are afraid of them. There’s usually a reason for that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The short response strikes me as odd, because on any other day I couldn’t pay Sofia to keep her mouth shut. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The first great strike of 1919 began on January 21, when thirty-five thousand Seattle, Washington, shipyard workers walked off their jobs, demanding higher wages and shorter working hours. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I’m going To strike the Pinata six times, And then let my Six guests swing A broom at the pig. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The record number of strikes would lead to an awareness of the plight of the American worker and to union recognition. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He would not raise his fist against the Lombard, for it would be a serious crime for a Jew to strike a Christian. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It put the world on notice that North Korea was moving ever closer to having the ability to strike the continental United States with a nuclear-armed ballistic missile. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And she was ashamed of how she had dismissed her mother’s stricken looks, her puffy eyes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her face was all white and stricken and I thought she’d quit then, but she kept it together, she kept it coming, although she sounded sort of shaky. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Seed Collector said, “He caught me in a trap and then held on to me as the sun was rising. He was going to let the morning rays strike me!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One could never be sure where he would strike next. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The idea was that all the other Greeks should strike camp, and apparently put out to sea, but they would really hide beyond the nearest island where they could not be seen by the Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He struggled to his feet, striking out and scoring Cluny heavily down the side. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was as if someone was tempting the gods: Either of these kids striking your fancy? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Seeing the stricken look on my face, he assured me that the problem was both common and solvable. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A volley of bullets whistled past the basket, one striking a spark from the suspension ring and making Lee’s hands sting with the impact but none of them did any damage. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger felt that if the preacher kept asking he would leap up and strike him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We just called off yet another strike, even though no lecturer has been paid for the last two months. They tell us the Federal Government has no money.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu heard a girl close by say, “I don’t have ten kobo for transport to go home.” the strike lasted too long. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The very idea of a color broadcast was so implausible that Alvarez secreted a small magnet in his pocket to verify that the picture was actually produced by electrons striking a phosphor screen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When lightning strikes the sea, why don’t all the fish die? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Like a strong wind, Dad rises from the clouds, strikes down the stairs, swift and sharp and mad as lightning. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She felt a bolt of cold fear strike at her, because he was so massive and so alien. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Cain raised his dagger to strike the girl in the back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Farrow nodded like we were striking some kind of deal, but we weren’t. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Stop, Log-a-Log! You have no right to strike a comrade! He was only stating the facts. Our Guerrilla Union rules clearly state that no member can be forced to venture beyond official shrew boundaries.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As a noticeably pretty child, and later on, a striking girl, I had my own small way in the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was his eyes that were the most striking. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

No one seemed to care about another student strike, and people walked past the tanks without stopping to read the placards hanging from the university facade. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the strike I sometimes went with him from mine to mine, talking to workers and planning strategy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, crazy, her whole body, legs, arms, hands, and feet strike, unified. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But over time my eyes and ears adjusted, so that I began to feel at home with those fragments of my people’s history: stories of pioneers, my ancestors, striking out across the American wilderness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The kitchen clock flashed its pendulum behind its glass skirt, and it ticked like a little wooden hammer striking on an empty wooden box. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so it went until Joe keeled over backward, his head striking the floor with a sickening crunch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I clench the knife to strike at him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Who was the horrid hooded figure to strike fear in her so? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A stone would fly straight through him and strike the child made in his image, clipping out an eye or a tongue or an outstretched hand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crawling out on the ledge, my hands trembling, I lay a small pile of pine needles and twigs, then, taking out my flint and steel, strike a spark and start a fire. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1880, the Supreme Court intervened, striking down a West Virginia statute that expressly reserved jury service to white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She understood and moved back a step, crowding him slightly as he tried to strike a match. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After the gasoline rationing and the public transport strike, she had unearthed this childhood toy from the basement as her only means of getting around. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is striking about these intellectual tools and cultural values is that they have proved to have a history quite unlike that of paradigms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The striking reluctance of whites, in particular, to talk about or even acknowledge race has led many scholars and advocates to conclude that we would be better off not talking about race at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He later declared, “If you break the law, you no longer have a home in public housing, one strike and you’re out. That should be the law everywhere in America.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But then Daily and Meeger strike out and the next guy hits a pop fly the shortstop catches with his bare left hand. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They let it be known that if their new union’s leaders were disciplined they would go out on strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The government urged industries to provide sleeping accommodations for workers so that they would not have to return home during the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the second year of a go-slow strike at the quarry, demanding a complete end to all manual labor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Program of Action approved at the annual conference called for the pursuit of political rights through the use of boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience, and noncooperation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I must warn you that it will strike the frost into the heart of every rabbit that hears it.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, expertly, I stop and look up, stricken. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Every few paces, the tip of her cane strikes a broken stone in the street, and it takes a while to pick her way around it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

All I could do was hope I had chosen a lucky spot where lightning wouldn’t strike, where no tree would topple down. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I dream lightning strikes. Or earthquakes. Sometimes it’s dark clouds mushrooming in the sky. I wake troubled.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The deflections occurred only when the alpha particle happened to strike this kernel directly or come close enough to be deflected by its electric charge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“You strike me as a clever young lady. Surely you can find a way to skirt the rules?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

His work led to one precise moment: when the syrup was so thick, and yet clean, that it was time to “strike.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She hoped to convince miners coming off shift to join the strike. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I remember a man being on trial for striking another person with lightning. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Angelica knew it, though she couldn’t see them, of course, and little Paolo was crying and striking at the empty air to try and drive them off; but it didn’t help, and Tullio was lost. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I strike out, hoping to catch him by surprise. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Since this house strikes you old and grave, boy,” said Miss Havisham, impatiently, “and you are unwilling to play, are you willing to work?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The physical similarities were striking: same steroidally round face, same nose, same approximate overall body shape. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

So I got to head out tonight and be there when the sun comes up, ready to strike the first big fish that rises. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, I could feel the air between them expanding and crackling, as if the lightning god himself were about to strike the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The MAD principle argued that a first strike against the enemy would almost certainly fail to destroy its entire nuclear arsenal and would lead to an immediate cycle of retaliation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I kept looking up at the clock, praying the minute hand would strike 1:40 and the bell would ring. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There was a horrible crack as Fedu's fist connected with her jaw, striking her with an inhuman strength. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Have you forgotten, imarozi, that the doctors went on strike just before Christmas? I called Doctor Nduoma before I left, though, and he said he will come by this evening.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She dodged my first strike and rolled into the brass section, knocking over a row of trombones with a mighty crash. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think Pa just liked the way the Wildcat growled and rumbled like a crouching animal about to strike. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The clock in the hall downstairs strikes nine. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She asked people to support the striking garment workers in St. Louis by buying only clothes with the “union-made” label inside them. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

His enlistment seemed just another of Leper’s vagaries, such as the time he slept on top of Mount Katahdin in Maine where each morning the sun first strikes United States territory. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark red hair, the striking features, the porcelain white skin. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Urged Balekin to orchestrate a strike at the one time no one would expect it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Rocks showered into the cove from many places along the cliff, striking several of the hunters. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the sounds on the street—car tires through slush, buses braking and hissing as they lower and open doors, boots striking cement, voices talking on cell phones, radio music from a fast truck. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Big Ma said, “That’s not how I raised you two—telling your elders what you want and don’t want. Just as unmannerly as a seal on strike at the circus.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was an improvement, but Gary was still a place of strikes and lockouts and the occasional bloody head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A cousin brought measles into the house, and all of us except Martha were stricken simultaneously. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Follow his lead. Where he strikes, we strike. Understood?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"You don't strike me as someone who cares much about your heritage." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to let the sun strike me? How evil of you!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then it took off again, circling around for another strike. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Bast’s easy smile fell away like a cracked mask, leaving his face stricken and pale. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some of those who took the bargain—thus accepting the permanent strike on their record—were promptly brought to the police station downtown, where they began repairing and repainting the damaged offices. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Kuda clung to his brother, but he seemed less panic- stricken. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Otto flipped his pad open, striking out prior summations and jotting new ones. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He dropped out of school in the seventh grade and ended up in court for “assault by striking” right after his seventeenth birthday. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He announced that the striking teamsters were receiving fifty dollars a day from abroad to keep the country at a standstill. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers were quick to use their gun butts to keep order, striking out at anyone who did not stay in line. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he had said it and meant it: “If I lift a hand against you, friend, may God strike me dead.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the street, Johnny met officers yelling at their men, trying to get them back into their barracks, striking at them even with the flat of their swords. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no chance to aim again, for he crouched down, picked up a piece of wood, and hurled it at me, striking my gun, which flew out of my hand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too many of the men they had sent into the camp had been stricken by the flux themselves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Khaleesi, we saw him strike you. Would you see the color of his Mood?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had realized that we had come to the point of no return, the point where it was harder to try and fit in, than it was to strike out alone. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then, after a year of using my employee discount at the Gap, my wardrobe bore a striking resemblance to that of Ali MacGraw in Love Story. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At one and the same time he seemed to accept every word and yet to be stricken with fear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth of her words strike Dedd as she remembers how she stood back and watched the young man open the back door for whoever wanted to sit by him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the boycott wasn’t a complete victory, the number of concessions achieved was striking. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Carter resisted the union’s attempts to organize, the union ordered a strike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Caught between fire and water, and seeing an Elf-lord revealed in his wrath, they were dismayed, and their horses were stricken with madness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That strikes me as naive, for someone who once lived in my city and saw, at least on the screens, how many secrets we kept from one another. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It is the most extreme example in his catalogue of another striking hallmark of his style. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We learned that they had embarked on a hunger strike to protest their isolation, and we immediately decided to join in. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang back to his feet quickly, his staff ready to strike. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He stepped back, hands in front of him in a position similar to the one I used to keep Mami from striking me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The figure made to strike us with his oar. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It strikes me that all of us everywhere are running. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In Jamaica, a series of violent strikes shut down the country, and a state of emergency was declared. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The next morning, as another thousand children between the ages of six and eighteen gathered at a church to march, Connor unleashed a furious preemptive strike. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she stared at him as one that is stricken, and her face blanched, and for long she spoke no more, while all sat silent. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Realizing that he now had to take a stand, he did what many thought he should have done at the beginning of the strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Again he lunged toward the tree, only this time he let his fists strike the trunk. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Nixon increased the pressure on the Communists by expanding the Cambodian air strikes into Operation Menu, a staggering series of heavy, repeated carpet-bombings. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Faces are distorted, arms strike out, and the beasts scream; we just stop in time to avoid attacking one another. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles was more anxious to strike in deep than Adam was, but then Charles had had the time to think of it, and to Adam it was a new field of thinking and feeling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We got one more hit, an RBI double, but there were two more outs on called strikes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt them gathering their strength inside her, felt each passing second crystallize into a map of strategic striking points wrapping around Wick’s body. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Klin, who bears a striking resemblance to the actor Martin Short, is half Israeli and half Brazilian, and he speaks with an understandably peculiar accent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Accidents!” screamed Voldemort, but still he did not strike, and the watching crowd was frozen as if Petrified, and of the hundreds in the Hall, nobody seemed to breathe but they two. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Making it impossible for Josh to figure out when to strike back, parry. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Instead of returning the salute, Bull stopped the car completely and stared with visible truculence at the guard who held his salute as rigidly as some umpires who call strikes on batters with exaggerated formality. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her children saw striking changes in Shin’s confidence and social skills after a couple of years in California: he was less shy, quicker to smile, and became something of a hugger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In this case, while the ANC unanimously supported the strike, some PAC men in the general section did not. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two children turned and ran, leaving their stricken brother, and Lyra, frightened and guilty, withdrew inside the room again and shut the window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dug a new hole with the trowel, striking the dirt harder than he had to. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only the shadows and the strike and rush of waves and the hiss of distance. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would ponder each possibility, and then when I was about to move, I would call out, “Qhipu!”—which means “I strike!” — and then move the piece. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He owned a gyrfalcon named Thunderclap who never missed ha strike. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jason called down another lightning strike, but Ephialtes caught it on his spear and deflected the blast, melting a life-size plastic cow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Lightning would strike from the sky any instant; there would be a thunderclap, a boll of smoke, a silence, footsteps on the path, a rap on the crystalline door, and her running to answer.... The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly could only watch helplessly as the human took careful aim and delivered a series of crippling blows to the stricken creature. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“That came out wrong. I just mean it’s usually only tourists who strike up conversations.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Hundred years ago, when hollows first born, they strike my home first. Everything destroy. All in village killed. Old woman. Baby. All.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Not striking it off straightaway had been his captor’s first mistake. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And as the strike continued—the first day, the second day, the third day—there were worried phone calls and rumors that this could go on for months. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donnelly worked to inspire passion for the union, and when he felt the laborers’ union spirit was strong enough, he called a strike. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The dizziness strikes you like a thunderclap, everything lurches, moves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What strikes me now is how time is captured. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They modeled swimsuits in a line, each striking a pose. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You heard him, boys. Get the Regiment up. Sound the General, strike the tents.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fear for my life, I said, “If I default . “May the all-seeing God strike me dead where I stand.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bands of soldiers were waiting there to strike each man down before he could join himself to others. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day it is finally determined that I have become one with the real world once more—or at least am within striking distance—and I’m released into the loving arms of my family. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Stamp, stamp, he went, striking the wood he trod on with a convulsive grip at every pace. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mass action campaign culminated in a general strike on August 3 and 4 in support of the ANC’s negotiation demands and in protest against state-supported violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Melias went left for a’ that—and he came by ill-luck stricken through the hauberk at the hands or some mysterious knight wha rode upon him, as Galahad foretold. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drew their swords, though their swords were useless, and when Rasalas leapt down from its perch, they scattered, all but Eril-Fane, who was stricken by a terror closer to Lazlo’s own. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was only opportunity for one blow at a time, so they more or less took it in turns, King Pellinore striking while Sir Grummore was recovering, and vice versa. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea is to make preemptive strikes against possible flashpoints. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Or maybe God Himself would strike me dead on the spot. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had slumped to his knees, almost paralyzed, clasping the stricken elbow with his other hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Swinging behind a tree he shouted “Hah!” triumphantly and giggled crazily, sobbing, laughing, panting with his chest tight and stricken with pain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An idea strikes me, just like it did when I escaped from Fake Uncle. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I imagine a tinkling sound, the locket striking the glass, even though the fabric in between makes contact impossible. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the boy didn’t move and she felt a sudden coldness strike through her as if an ice dagger had been plunged into her belly. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My two white roommates in Pyne Hall were both perfectly nice, but I wasn’t around the dorm enough to strike up any sort of deep friendship. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Two of the hives crashed off their bases and fell into the road, one of them striking Mac Pettus on the leg. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had her teeth bared and arms out to strike, and I bared mine right back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nonviolence was a tough notion for Ann to embrace, but she tried not to strike back when police shoved her or when white hecklers spat on her at demonstrations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 19.1 depicts their distributions, while the portraits in Chapter 14 will remind you of their striking differences in skin color, hair form and color, and facial features. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And for some reason this strikes a chord, piquing a memory. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Again, Frank waited for the god to strike him down, but Mars just grinned like they were two old buddies talking trash. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The tongue twisted away from her flame, then inched back like a snake preparing to strike. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She looked at the strong young man lying motionless in sleep beside her, and she could not strike with her dagger to change that glowing vigor into cold death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, without the comforting lull of the train, it strikes him how very far he is from home. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Something that will strike fear into my very bones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His face was sharp and delicate, almost beautiful, with striking blue eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hearing the full name strikes something in my memory. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On May 11, 1894, two thousand Pullman workers went on strike with the support of Debs’s American Railway Union. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He lifted his hand, threatening to strike her. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“If you strike that dog again, I’ll kill you,” he at last managed to say in a choking voice. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second strikes a tenement, blowing away the top floors. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her arrow was the first to strike it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is striking how often it is overlooked. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Tall and curved, hooks on the ends, the Z coiled back to strike like a snake. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Rutherford B. Hayes sent federal troops to end the strike, and workers went back to their jobs, taking lower wages. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“I will prove my power is greater than Mithras. With a single strike, I will bring down this chamber.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But I did not come here to play, or to be played with. I came to strike a bargain with you.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Karl spots him, too, and a stricken look crosses his face. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had not taken two steps before she felt the first blow strike her ribs and she fell on her knees, the breath knocked out of her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With any luck, when I kill her, Finnick will duck behind the tree for cover just as the lightning bolt strikes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll put some on. Meanwhile, I want you to take a look in that notebook. Write something if it strikes your fancy.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She stuck with the striking union families through the winter. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

There is nothing for Violet to beat or hit and when she has to, just has to strike it somehow, there is nothing left but straw or a sepia print. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With striking uniformity, these travelers reported that New England was thickly settled and well defended. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was exhausted and angry, and even though she knew it would cost her the job, she lifted her hand to strike the man hard in the face. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Daniel Ellsberg spent the night at the Pentagon monitoring the air strikes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The strike was to be orderly and peaceful: signs posted in five languages reminded strikers to “Obey the union’s rules to molest no person or property, and abide strictly by the laws of the country.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A strike based on a political grievance rather than on clear-cut issues like higher wages or shorter hours is a more precarious form of protest and demands particularly efficient organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Court agreed, striking down this kind of evidence in Booth v. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When his actions are recognized as skilful, they strike men much more and bind them to him more strongly than does antiquity of bloodline. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

This strikes me as odd, because I’ve never fired a gun in my life. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Washington was an indisputable American patriarch, but more an actor than a leader, brilliant at striking poses “in a strain of Shakespearean...excellence at dramatic exhibitions.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Despite stern warnings from the United Nations Security Council, North Korea fires a second missile, striking Osaka, Japan. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The two black soldiers, who had been watching the scene with what appeared to be indifference, now looked stricken. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The bullocks have found their own rhythm now, moving so that their hoofs strike the earth together and the yoke is borne steadily on their shoulders: we are travelling fast. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The possibility of being attacked is extremely low. So is getting struck by lightning. But when lightning strikes, don’t run around your backyard and stand next to the flagpole.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

My heart is hammering from the bloodshed, from Cardan being so close, from striking him without consequences. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The answer strikes me like a whip when the men finally settle on a price. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“How about an old saddle blanket? That mule’s backbone will strike you in a vital place.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Noticeably trembling, she grabbed his hand as he lifted it to strike Amari again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight was the vote on Amendment S in Ravenskill, and if Seven’s theory was correct, there would be another string of cuco attacks—making this the perfect time for the Witchlings to strike. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But those who gave in had to pay a price, for to invite death inside would mean striking a bargain with it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poise of the head strikes one at once as indicative of thought and power; the head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then Malcolm tried to strike a course across the open waste of sweeping water and made hardly any progress. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The words strike like they never did before. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bases are loaded, but there are two outs, and Cala just threw a strike. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Then the torches switch on and every man strikes at the heap, which scatters with a rush. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found it hard to suppress a howl of delight as he surveyed the havoc—I made this happen—and saw Brother Eugene’s trembling chin and horror- stricken expression. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew any pitch against us was a strike so we went up ready to swing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think your dwarf will please her? Will she bathe in his blood, do you think, or content herself with striking off his head?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At first, I thought I could strike up a friendship with Bunnicula and maybe teach him a few tricks. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was quite rough; but I kept on rowing, until suddenly we were close ashore against a point of rock that rose beside us; the waves striking against it, rushing high up, then falling back. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

All over the apartment hung photographs, unframed and tacked up with poster gum, but striking nonetheless. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was still trying to figure out what was going on, when I realized that on striking the river the animal had again turned and was coming straight toward me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A striking example of Bloor’s inability to acknowledge that nature constrains science is to be found on p. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The mayor doesn’t strike me as a foolish man, so I can’t imagine he would tolerate the kind of incompetence that would allow the undead on his property. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“This is the end of corruption! This is what we have needed to happen since that general strike,” one guest said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I landed next to them—sword in hand, within striking distance of the monsters heart. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We strike a medium, and he shivers outside his bag, while I swelter in mine; but considering from what distances we have come together to share this tent a while, we do well enough. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

With every arrow, he imagined he was striking down his problems. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He asked about the newspaper strike, and true to form, he couldn’t understand why both sides didn’t simply communicate with each other and solve their problems. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second thing that strikes me is the way the sheriff is looking in my direction. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He startles, and his foot—missing a sock—strikes something hard and sharp-edged. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The door opened behind them, the screen screeching a striking impression of TJ's voice. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps more striking than the racial integration of the female mathematicians, which had been spreading organically throughout Langley for years, was the fact that a group focused on computing now employed increasing numbers of men. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Seattle strike took place when, for many American workers, joining a union was becoming increasingly important. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When the miners went on strike, coal operators hired gunmen, including sheriff’s deputies, to assault, arrest, and blacklist workers and evict their families from their homes. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t stop these Southerners from working the mines, the strike would fail. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

His punishment is the Word, and his deficiencies are failures of words—as when he grows impatient with translation and strikes out precariously on his own, telling parables in his wildly half-baked Kikongo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I find myself thinking through combinations—strike, thrust, parry, block. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The fact that so many of the striking steelworkers were foreigners added fuel to the fire, something that the steel companies were quick to capitalize upon. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He let the next pitch go by, and the umpire called it a strike. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then, the smile drops from his face and he turns still as a rabbit, waiting for a rattlesnake to strike. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She paused dramatically, to observe their silent, stricken faces. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She tried but could not quite find her balance and fell down to the mudflats, striking her head on a granite outcropping just before she dropped to the bottom. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Tariq was still speaking, his voice hushed, then high, beseeching, then reasoning; his face hopeful, then stricken. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Booth presided over a meeting of some of the conspirators he had recruited over the previous months to strike against President Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the tall tree that took the first lightning strike at twelve o’clock, but every sector has a similar tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inti’s first beams shone brightly and abruptly, striking the very center of the stone jaguar’s eye and giving him a fiery fierceness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I would,” I said casually, “simply call the wind, and make it strike the bird from the sky.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Plumbers were set to strike again on May 3, when Ellsberg was scheduled to appear at a Vietnam War protest at the Capitol Building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At that instant several gunshots, which sounded like thunder striking the tin-roofed houses, took over town. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I snapped four quick photos of Harris and Boukreev striking summit poses, then turned and headed down. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was six o’clock—the church clock was just beginning to strike—when Fenoglio suddenly put down his pen and looked over what he had written with a satisfied expression. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He paused before a market stall that did not strike her as especially wonderful, but the way he beamed at it made her take a second look. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It strikes me with no warning that I am miserable. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Commissioner Curtis refused to compromise, making the police even more determined to strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Its fur was completely invulnerable, but if I could strike it in the mouth ... The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Exactly so; that is what principally strikes me. So much superadded decision of character! Skilful has been the hand!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

At the beginning they mingled awkwardly, clutching their drinks, and then the coordinator of the evening, a tall, striking woman named Kailynn, called the group to order. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“If the strike succeeds,” he proclaimed, “it might and probably would be the beginning of an upheaval which might bring on all of us grave and serious consequences.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It is notorious for striking quickly and with terrible effect at the nervous system, sending the victims into convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The thing that strikes me most about my encounter with him was his voice. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You strike me as the kind of girl who’s one day going to be eating roast chicken and those on-fire desserts just as much as you want.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I argued all up and down, but it was like the time Minerva wanted to do the hunger strike. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fury shone from his lilac eyes, yet he dared not strike her, not with her handmaids watching and the warriors of her. khas outside. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If only there were an easy way, like wearing special glasses; a lightning strike is too painful, and results aren’t guaranteed. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Luck,” James Vincent groaned to himself, to nobody, not in his wildest dreams realizing how prophetic his statement would turn out to be: “I got the kind of luck even a rattlesnake wouldn’t strike at.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched Sidney Goldberg let a strike go by and said nothing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, banks and companies were failing across America, strikes threatened everywhere, and cholera had begun a slow white trek across Europe, raising fears that the first plague ships would soon arrive in New York Harbor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Burning with undeserved shame, I wanted to strike at him with my words. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

With his voice striking the perfect sober note, Holmes apologized for the disarray and explained that Julia’s sister had fallen gravely ill and Julia and her daughter had left at once for the train station. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My hair stands on end and the lightning strikes the tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He drew back his arm to strike me ... then stopped. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, for one thing, sir, you and the good Lord better hope no lightning strikes around here in the next six months!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse’s hooves sparked off the cobblestones and sounded like a hammer striking a forge. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to strike the match, but her hands were shaking so badly she couldn’t. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

At the word “Reverend,” he wanted to strike her; he reached out instead and took both her hands in his. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Early articles, which had depicted her as “well-dressed,” “striking,” the family “perfect,” had given way to snide and vaguely accusatory ones of the ilk of MOM SEZ: NOT MY KID. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“First strike!” the announcer screams in disbelief as the audience goes insane with cheering. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps in a bit,” Frankie said, sparing me from having to explain that I had never played pool and would sooner strike my own eye out than hit the ball. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I got the harpoon raised but I don’t dare move, not until it’s perfect, not until I’m ready to strike. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She also didn’t style her hair in a flapper bob, but instead let her long, black hair flow over her back, revealing her striking face, with its high cheekbones and big brown eyes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Fie tries to sit up, but the ceiling has become lower, and he strikes his head. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Others argued that Denmark needed a more warlike king to challenge Norway, which stood poised to strike our leaderless state. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Instead, we made decisions about such matters as prisoners’ complaints, strikes, mail, food — all of the day-to-day concerns of prison life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It strikes me now as a typically Christian scene. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The warriors, he imagined, were gathering their gear, perhaps making ready to strike camp. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I listened silently to the charges: inciting African workers to strike and leaving the country without valid travel documents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do, Grandpa,” I said, “but not before they strike a trail.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone else took a half step back, as if whatever lightning were about to strike might hit them, too. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The number of air strikes on German cities is increasing daily. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was on the strike of “vie” that Miss Williams noticed. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I reflect on that moment now, the image blurs, reconstituting itself into that of a zealous knight astride a steed, charging into an imaginary battle, striking at shadows, hacking into thin air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Wart went as pale as Sir Kay was, and looked as if he were going to strike him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a work stoppage. Ever hear of that? This is a strike.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right and he was sprawling on his back on the floor. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The problem, particularly in the early years, was that it was next to impossible to alert people on the outside that we were waging a hunger strike inside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curiously enough this did not strike her as an impossibly rash thing to do. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I need your help,” Jackson says, striking a match and lighting a kerosene lantern. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Joseph never knew his mother had dreamed of “striking it rich.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The first thing that strikes me about Millie’s house is how everything—from the fake flowers to the paint to the throw pillows—matches. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

What if lightning strikes a tree and it falls on him in the woods? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I faced the man again, and could not strike. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He didn’t strike me as particularly sweet, but whatever. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You strike me as a man of confidence,” I told him. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Which, lo and behold, wouldn't you know it, happen to be my most striking feature. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As is often the case just before catastrophe strikes, that Chicago summer Sunday morning was like any other, carrying no hint of the trouble ahead. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And in his arms before him on his horse he bore the body of his kinsman, Faramir son of Denethor, found upon the stricken field. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Perotin strikes us, even today, as an irrepressibly adventurous creative force, a firecracker of a composer who conceived and wrote down the most complex simultaneous note clusters that had ever been heard. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This means that malignant disease will strike two out of three families. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Franco strikes back against Asher, each blow a deafening crunch of metal. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is striking, for instance, how many different professions and disciplines have a word to describe the particular gift of reading deeply into the narrowest slivers of experience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He unpinned his cutlass and began to strike the young man’s calves with the plastic weapon. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It did not take me long before I wore the striking uniform of the Hitler Youth....I could only promise my father that I would think about what he had told me.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The portrait wall Grace had seen when they’d first entered the house was more striking up close, and she found herself walking more slowly as she looked at the photos. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was the largest of them, and perhaps a bodyguard for their leader—as if anyone would actually be stupid enough to strike a scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Were they really going to allow Jews to hear the clock strike twelve? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few days there was a strike of some sort. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my shout, she snaps out of her daze and strikes out at Marcus, twisting away from him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Word about the hunger strike spread to the other women behind bars, and soon thirty other inmates from the District Jail and the Occoquan Workhouse joined the effort. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This passed the endurance of the immortals, and Zeus got ready his thunderbolt to strike them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, white and black waiters went out on strike together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As if stricken by some blasting spell it burst asunder: there was a flash of searing lightning, and the doors tumbled in riven fragments to the ground. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We drove through the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and then along the outskirts of Washington, D.C., where we passed a temple with gold spires striking up into the air. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It was absolutely striking,” Potterat says, of the first time he toured East and West Baltimore. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom never said anything about us not working, which made our strike less dramatic. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jesse was right: It was easier to strike out alone than to try to fit in. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon every student found a message slid under his door, containing an appeal from Harvard’s president, Abbott Lowell, for men to volunteer to help ease the crisis brought about by the police strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Hunger strike!” she huffed when she was done, slapping the newspaper on the table. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“For scientific discovery, give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I told him that I had read about the garbage strike in New York. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, when I looked at her hands with their swollen knuckles folded together in her lap, I imagined them smooth and slim, striking the piano keys. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Presuming an ample water supply, he might last three weeks. Shorter than a typical hunger strike, but remember he'll be malnourished and thin to begin with." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They circle each other, and you watch for one or the other to strike. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Oksi chased right, then left, right, left, and speeded up to strike. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even more striking, in the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Why does he strike as if he wants to kill? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Something struck Sam violently in the back, his legs were knocked from under him and he was flung aside, striking his head against the stony floor, as a dark shape sprang over him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Weed,” Josephine said, striking a match, “will beat me within an inch of my life if he finds the ’ouse in such a state.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He could not run, he could not strike a blow. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing something dark around her eyes to make their color stand out, bright and striking. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Once I tell him, he is going to try to strike a bargain, and faerie bargains seldom favor the mortal. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You want to strike it, don’t you? Go on—it’s not forbidden.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Because a heart does not strike the hours like a clock, Ralph slept until recess and again until lunchtime when Ryan remembered to slip a bit of sandwich into the pocket for his lunch. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Until the end of dinner, at least. Mr. Katz refuses to concede to the workers’ demands, so I suspect the strike will continue through tomorrow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m disappointed. You don’t strike me as a quitter.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Tried folding it between pieces of felt and striking it with a hammer—it did not shatter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In general, however, we could not hide the fact that the strike was a failure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“ThiefT’ The big man raised his stick to strike at her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was right in her strike zone: an aggrieved victim, a remorseless alleged perpetrator, and no one taking up the fight. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Workers were striking all over England, fighting wage cuts and demanding the right to vote. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in front of the room, using a ruler for a baton, striking each syllable so hard it was as if she were making up for the times she had nothing to strike. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the town clock strikes two, the mayor steps up to the podium and begins to read. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sierra held her breath and slid silently into striking distance. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Whenever Werner contemplates the old city, it is the chimneys that strike him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The relationship, so striking once it has been pointed out to us, had escaped attention, for Manet did not copy or represent the Raphael composition. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped his hand into his pocket and produced a matchbox which he handed to the other man, who took it but did not strike a light. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shakes my hand and says, “Fare thee well,” which strikes me as the kind of thing people say in books. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turtle rose with a tongue click very much like her mother's, but she was not about to leave without striking back. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Duke strikes up the band, and skirts start swirling. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I saw my mother’s face, her stricken face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, if she can stick it out, this whole incident will be stricken from her record. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The beasts cackle and strike out with their feet and wings. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wexler leaped up, hand ready to strike; instead she straightened a framed flower print, patted her fashionable honey-blonde hairdo, and sat down again. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plaster rained from the ceiling, and all the excitement was stricken from Sarai’s face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Yolanda begins to worry that they are lost, and then, the way worry sprouts worry, it strikes her that they haven't heard or seen the other boys in quite a while. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His father called it the wounded duck but to Ben the hand and wrist took on the shape of a cobra prepared to strike. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we emerged into the evening gloom to the uproar and bustle of the striking workers, the distance between us had grown even greater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But “dead,” mingling with the churning and bubbling noises in this room, strikes a blow like a hammer to my chest, and the monster of grief awakens, clawing at my eyes and throat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I fetch one now, strike it against the box, and let Mrs. Janssen’s penciled sleuthing burn into sulfur and ash. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a fierce battle during the French and Indian War, four bullets riddle Washington’s uniform—but do not strike his body. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a disease that strikes foxes sometimes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even a cursory look confirmed a striking result: the newly born flies had accumulated mutations—dozens of them, perhaps hundreds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then, as I played, he began to strike his drum so as to keep the proper beats. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is one thing to criticize, and that we can accept, but to attempt to break a strike by calling upon the people to go to work directly serves the interests of the enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She called back the image of the snake: its eyes, its aim, the swift accuracy of its strike. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He gave no sign even when the first ranks of his own squadron hove into sight with their swingless marching and die first stricken gasps of alarm were hissing from his startled fellow officers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He caught Roy Lee ogling the girl next to him and threw a perfect chalk strike to the boy’s head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Frustrated, Rowan launched himself at her again, an open palm strike at her shoulder, intentionally two inches off from the perfect leverage point—but she actually moved into it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Suddenly in his hand writhed a cold serpent, hissing and twisting to strike. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fie was on his back flashing the white fur on his belly that signaled I give up! and no one, not even the pups, could strike him. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few strikes these weak unions dared to attempt won no concessions, and usually resulted in the dismissal of strikers and their nonstriking family members. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Opposite the window, she finds a dresser whose drawers open only partway before striking the bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One of the striking characteristics of the criminal justice system in the United States is how much more likely blacks are to be arrested and convicted and imprisoned for crimes than whites are. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Johnson authorized U.S. planes to hit targets in the North, the first American air strikes since the August 5 raids the year before. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

These sentences were imposed pursuant to California’s controversial three strikes law, which mandates a sentence of twenty-five years to life for recidivists convicted of a third felony, no matter how minor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z