On he ran past an automobile, wrecked and overturned; past another, filled with a gay party whose smiles yet lingered on their death-struck lips; on past crowds and groups of cars, pausing by dead policemen; at 42nd Street he had to detour to Park Avenue to avoid the dead congestion. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)
Though death-struck, still his feeble frame he rears; ❋ Unknown (2007)
She walked deliberately down, while I, overcome, miserable beyond words, or tears, or groans, threw myself on the pavement near — the stiffening form of Idris was before me, the death-struck countenance hushed in eternal repose beneath. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The puzzle that she had begun to try to solve when Rebecca Mary's white, death-struck mother had laid her baby in Aunt Olivia's unaccustomed arms was getting a little more difficult every day. ❋ Annie Hamilton Donnell (N/A)
Humphrey, for many a day; and hither, one sad morning, I brought my poor friend Gray, whom I had discovered languishing somewhere in the Borough, and who was already death-struck through "sleeping out" one night in ❋ Various (N/A)
For him may mourn who will -- death-struck he falls: ❋ L��once [Translator] Rabillon (N/A)
On he ran past an automobile, wrecked and overturned; past another, filled with a gay party whose smiles yet lingered on their death-struck lips; on past crowds and groups of cars, pausing by dead policemen; at 42nd ❋ Unknown (1915)
He did not seem to be suffering greatly at the time, but was evidently death-struck and I think fully aware of it. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Mr. Travis [the letter ran], -- I am a death-struck man in consequence of your outrageous treatment of me last evening. ❋ Mary Hallock Foote (1892)
As for me, the glimpse I had caught of Maria's death-struck face so rankled in my soul through the long watches of that sleepless night that on the morrow, in anguished contrition, I confessed all that miserable story to Raphael. ❋ Unknown (1886)
She was "all right again," she said as she sat, but the abstraction of her eyes and the harkening droop of her head showed that inwardly she still saw and heard the death-struck boy. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
There can be no greater credulity, than for any man to expect that a sinful and death-struck being, one who has fallen out of the harmony of his mold by sin, should yet communicate no trace of evil from himself, no diseased or damaged quality, no moral discolor, to the gene. rations that derive their existence from him. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
Meningitis set in, and it was immediately apparent that she was death-struck. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
This lasted for a moment -- one dread moment; then he fell forward, to all appearance death-struck, in the doctor's arms. ❋ Unknown (1864)
His grasp still lay heavy on the father and daughter, and still both confronted him -- silent, as if death-struck by his gaze; motionless, as if frozen at his touch. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
_You_ didn't see that dreadful death-struck look of the poor girl. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
O where then will be the care-worn and mourners, the sick and the penitent, when all shall be full of heavenly joy, and clothed in heavenly array; when loved faces shall be no more clouded or death-struck, but blissful and radiant with eternal beauty? ❋ 1808-1892 (1850)
The whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, my hope quenched, my faith death-struck, swayed full and mighty above me in one sullen mass. ❋ Unknown (1848)
Those who have watched the dying and recognized the indescribable expression which marks the countenance when it is "death-struck" will understand what alteration is meant. ❋ Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1844)
Marseillese fall death-struck; bequeath their firelock, specify in which pocket are the cartridges; and die, murmuring, "Revenge me, Revenge thy country!" ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
i [aint] [fuckin with] that [white boy] cuz he walk around like he death struck ❋ Tru Booty (2008)
