Word: strucke
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...were firm friends; indeed, I think she lavished upon me that sort of love which a boy may sometimes feel for a woman many years his senior. I knew I should miss her greatly. . . . But when I saw her in the doorway smiling at me, her pale face struck me with something like terror...
Diggles was almost there. In fact, he was on the next log. The maiden seized this as she went down, and Mr. Diggles - suddenly decided he could be of more assistance in the water. This, for some reason, struck the Amherst man as funny, quite irresistibly funny, and he was seized with an uncontrollable desire to laugh. But his log became restless and he - went to help Mr. Diggles in getting out the young lady...
...twofold advantage: one in that never, no matter what his position, could he be open to the accusation of turning his back on a friend; the other, in being able to boast in time of war that all his wounds were in front, no matter how often he was struck while beating a retreat...
GENTLEMEN, - I have received your note, and have struck your names out of the Society's List...
...longer control my machine. Straight towards the post it rushed. I could not leap from it; I could not stop its awful impetus. A doomed man, I was hurled onward to my fate. I closed my eyes, and thought of Appleton Chapel. Crash!! and in an instant I struck in the middle of my back, straight across the mighty, quivering shaft, and such was my momentum that my lank form immediately adapted itself to the force of circumstances, and pliantly wound several times around said shaft. But there seemed to be no idea of permanence about that position...