The giant rats and mice who invade the house on the stroke of midnight are baleful and sinister, James Streeter playing their king with dark piratical swagger.
The luckiest time to present gifts to a new house was the stroke of midnight while the New Year was rung in.
While a candidate Kennedy declared that he would end racial discrimination in public housing with the stroke of a pen.
Starting on the right side of the house, make small strokes from the trees into the house.
Stories about Lincoln and about Dempsey, about ghosts who stroke the house cats and about that mounted fluke behind the bar, blackened by decades of smoke and steam.
Look at it now". Even more impressive is the avocado tree, a huge meandering hunk of living wood, with branches that reach out and stroke the house.
Strokes of house paint – scuffed up or spread across canvases and boards – might have been left by an errant decorator.
But who cares! Analyst house ABI Research has been stroking its collective beard and come up with a forecast for the size of the nascent smartwatch market.
Some clinical diagnoses such as sepsis, renal failure, metastatic cancer, house-bound lifestyle, and stroke are associated with worse prognosis after inhospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) [ 1- 3].
Where I live, we went two nights with no A.C. Some guy had a heat stroke in his house".
The backstage conditions of the deteriorating house provided a less subtle stroke of drama when, partway into Act II, out of view of the audience but not out of earshot, a huge piece of metal scenery crashed to the floor.
