Sentence examples for houses strike from inspiring English sources

Robert Burton in the 1620s thought that "aerial spirits" could "tear oaks, fire steeples, houses, strike men and beasts, make it rain stones, as in Livy's time, wool, frogs etc., counterfeit armies in the air, strange noises, swords".

The two houses struck a deal this morning, the bill passed both houses this afternoon, and Gov. George E. Pataki's office signaled that he would sign it into law.

The walls also withstood prairie winds better than framed walls; even sod houses struck by tornadoes generally survived with no worse damage than the loss of the roof, leaving the walls standing.

Slabs of concrete from the crumpling house struck and smothered him.

However, the isolation her deafness imposes on her in the Celebrity Big Brother house strikes a chord.

But the Ballyglass house struck me as a more poignant glimpse of prehistory.

Yet his humble origins in modest Milwaukee in a house stricken by the depression were a good deal more prosaic.

The house struck me as like a work of art, too, a painting in urgent need of sensitive restoration".

The pilot of the smaller plane and two occupants of a house struck by one section of the big ship also were killed.

In Sderot, a small city about four miles from Gaza, Mr. Obama toured the same house struck by rocket attack that Mr. McCain did in March.

The boy fired the 12-gauge shotgun from inside his house, striking the girl as she stood in her yard, the sheriff said.