Struck-down Sentence Examples

He struck down another attacker.

The man from the beach who struck down his father strode from the stables, accompanied by another man hauling Vara by one arm. ..

In 1846 Wakefield, exhausted with labour, was struck down by apoplexy, and spent more than a year in complete retirement, writing during his gradual recovery his Art of Colonization.

The captains placed themselves in the front, and in the centre 38 out of 40 of them were struck down.

In the very hour of success, however, Conrad was struck down by the emissaries of the Old Man of the Mountain (the chief of the Assassins).

He attacked Enfantin violently, and in a warm discussion between them he was struck down by apoplexy.

The Irish numbering 25,000, and strongly posted behind marshy ground, at first maintained a vigorous resistance; but Ginkel having penetrated their line of defence, and their general being struck down by a cannon ball at this critical moment, they were at length overcome and routed with terrible slaughter.

The party which had set up the Committee of Public Safety was now struck down by the very man who through the Directory inherited by direct lineal descent the dictatorial powers instituted in the spring of 1793 for the salvation of the republic. It remains to add that the suspects in the plot of October 1800 were now guillotined (31st of January 1801), and that two of the plotters closely connected with the affair of Nivose were also executed (21st of April).

On the entrance of Vespasian's troops into Rome he was dragged out of some miserable hiding-place, driven to the fatal Gemonian stairs, and there struck down.

Napoleon was here defeated, and with only 30,000 men at his back he was compelled to renounce all ideas of a further offensive, and he retired to rest his troops to Reims. Here he remained unmolested for a few days, fop Blucher was struck down by sickness, and in his absence nothing was done.

Some time after the capture of Jerusalem the ark was brought from Baal-Judah, but at the threshing-floor of Nacon (an unintelligible name) Abinadab's son Uzzah laid hands upon it and was struck down for his impiety.

The Persian empire was struck down (637).

On the day after she was pronounced out of danger Fichte was struck down.

At his own urgent request Prince Henry of Battenberg, the queen's son-in-law, was permitted to join the Ashanti expedition, and early in January the prince was struck down with fever.

There he was struck down by fever; and on the 15th of August 1464 death had released him from all his afflictions - a tragic close which has thrown a halo round his memory.

Bertram Elliot, waiting to lead the Royals just abaft the bridge, was struck down by a shell which did fearful execution forward.

A rain of bullets fell close to them, and struck down two oarsmen in succession.

She assented on condition that the divorce could be lawfully effected without impeachment of her son's legitimacy; whereupon Lethington undertook in the name of all present that she should be rid of her husband without any prejudice to the child - at whose baptism a few days afterwards Bothwell took the place of the putative father, though Darnley was actually residing under the same roof, and it was not till after the ceremony that he was suddenly struck down by a sickness so violent as to excite suspicions of poison.

At the end of 1880, after a speech at a revolutionary meeting in Paris, he was struck down by apoplexy, and expired on the 1st of January 1881.

In December 1861, while preparations were being made for the marriage, the prince consort was struck down with typhoid fever, and died on the 14th.

For the Kouretes, the fish and serpent-like peoples struck down by Zeus or Apollo, see Harrison, Annual of Brit.

In the midst of these military preparations he was struck down by sudden illness, which lasted but for a day, and died at Mount.

One of these is easily struck down and carried or dragged off.

In 1897 he was struck down with insanity, and after three months' confinement in the asylum at Upsala, although he recovered his senses, all his joyousness and wildness had left him.

In the summer of 1879 Hall was struck down by apoplexy, and for the remaining nine years of his life he was practically bedridden.

When Lord Liverpool was struck down in a fit on the 7th of February 1827, Canning was marked out by position as his only possible successor.

In other words he retained his reason until in his 74th year he was struck down by a new disease in the form of a localized left-sided apoplexy or cerebral softening.

Philopator insisted on entering the sanctuary at Jerusalem, but was struck down by the Almighty in answer to the prayers of the horrified Jews.

Over 200 passengers on board the Sea Princess luxury cruise ship were struck down by the norovirus bug, a form of viral gastroenteritis.

A poor harlot was struck down by the word.

The Russian lancer in the rear who stabbed me was killed by a comrade and I struck down the other.

Simon Schatzberger undoubtedly stole the show as Harry, a selfish wastrel struck down by a debilitating stroke.

And meanwhile the rift between Alexander and his European followers continued to show itself in dark incidents - the murder of Clitus at Maracanda (Samarkand), when Alexander struck down an old friend, both being hot with wine; the claim that Alexander should be approached with prostration (proskynesis), urged in the spring of 327, and opposed boldly by the philosopher Callisthenes, Aristotle's nephew, who had come in the king's train; the conspiracy of the pages at Bactria, which was made an occasion for putting Callisthenes to death.

Previous attempts to enact similar legislation have been struck down in the courts as unconstitutional and this bill is likely to be no different.

Guts' love for her can do nothing so they are forced to roam the land in search of his destiny, a cure for Casca, and to seek vengeance against the clan that struck down The Hawks.

One of the great spoilers of Y&R history dates back to the day that Victor Newman was struck down by a heart attack.

Cedric was struck down with a killing curse.