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Ernest had his hand on the pulse of events even more closely than the rest of the socialists, and within two days the first blow was struck. The Appeal to Reason was a weekly, and its regular circulation amongst the proletariat was seven hundred and fifty thousand.

Harrison has struck along with the Chauffeurs' Union, and I don't know how to run the machine myself."

In another and later clinch, when she had already relaxed and sighed her relief at seeing him safely snuggled, Ponta, his chin over Joe's shoulder, lifted his right arm and struck a terrible downward blow on the small of the back.

"I haven't struck him, and I don't want any fight."

Those of our arboreal ancestors who struck bottom died forthwith.

Just as he emerged, stepping out a pace, a rifle cracked to his right, and though he did not hear the bullet in passing, the thud of it came to his ears when it struck a palm-trunk farther on.

"Dog!" he hissed, and struck the master of fence a stinging blow across the face, and spat upon him.

A horse, struck by a stray bullet, fell beside Jane Clayton, a lion leaped across the expiring beast full upon the breast of a black trooper just beyond.

At seventeen feet they struck a thin streak of gravel, and in it coarse gold, testpans running as high as six and eight dollars.

Presently a white smoke burst from the fore part of the vessel; some seconds after, the water, agitated by the fall of a heavy body, splashed the stern of the Nautilus, and shortly afterwards a loud explosion struck my ear.

It had struck Saxon at the time that the old woman was quite unalarmed and only curious to see.

The spear of Agamemnon caught him on the broad of his back, just as he was turning in flight; it struck him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.