Bowled

"Louis," she burst out, "I'd rather be a Puritan, I think -- and be all dead and dried up like Aunt Janet, than -- than -- what you call bowled over. ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)

This phrase bowled me over, for the proportion thus bluntly stated in figures gave me so logical a conception of his exalted expectations, that I hurried away at once to the director to warn him that the enterprise on which we had embarked would not, after all, prove as easy as we thought. ❋ Richard Wagner (1848)

At CES this year, we're kind of bowled over by some of the innovative ways 3D technology is making its way into debuting products. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I mean how important is it for your character to be assertive and not simply kind of bowled over by the daughters on this show? ❋ Unknown (2009)

1459: That is the fifth time in six innings Dravid has been bowled, which is a worrying sign. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Somethin 'bowled' im clean over, but 'e gets up again an' shows me 'is arm. ❋ Frederick Augustus Voigt (1924)

The statistics are damning: Delhi has recorded the fewest sixes of the three venues, a little more than half those hit in Hyderabad; four scores below 100, one of which was the tournament's lowest total; and 40 % of all wickets falling in the "bowled" column, testifying to the difficulty in predicting the bounce. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Left, Somerset wicket-keeper Craig Kieswetter celebrated after Tillakaratne Dilshan was bowled for 23, Monday. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He was bowled clean over, landing in a heap on the floor a dozen feet away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I was bowled over," said Salim Abdool Karim, an AIDS researcher and professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa who wasn't involved in the study but was briefed on its results. ❋ Mark Schoofs (2011)

You don't have to love Mr. Sondheim to be bowled over by this idiosyncratic, at times cranky, dissection of song lyrics, both his own and those of others; deep down, the book is really about the mysterious and sometimes prosaic process of artistic creation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And I was bowled over from the beginning, although I did not know it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In international "test" cricket, the same ball must be bowled a minimum of 480 times. ❋ John W. Miller (2011)

The captain led gallantly to the attack, but was bowled over by a chunk of coal that burst on his head in black baptism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I am bowled over by abject amazement that these little guys have found a way to get airborne. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the afternoon, when the sea-breeze had picked up in strength, his sail hove into view as he bowled along before the wind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And thereafter no question was raised when Ah Chun elected to enter his brilliant drawing-room in blue silk robe, wadded slippers, and black silk skull-cap with red button peak, or when he chose to draw at his slender-stemmed silver-bowled pipe among the cigarette - and cigar - smoking officers and civilians on the broad verandas or in the smoking room. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's not that I thought I know it all, but still to be bowled over by a book like this is amazing. ❋ Unknown (2009)