Sentence examples for striking dead from inspiring English sources
The Lord's striking dead a number of hungry Israelites who have begun to eat some sun-dried quail — "The meat was still between their teeth, it had not yet been chewed, when the Lord's wrath flared against the people" — seems savage, as does the slaying of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, the leaders of some grumblers.
Kannada folklore tells a tale of a young man Sala, who saved his Jain guru Sudatta by striking dead a Lion he encountered near the temple of the Goddess Vasantika at Angadi, now called Sosevuru.
The balance between light and dark, serious and silly, hilarious mock outrage and heartfelt anger is struck dead on.
Suddenly, in the middle of copulating, they were struck dead, felled by poisonous gas from a volcanic eruption.
Fortunately, the scoreboard had been struck dead by lightning earlier in the week, somewhat mitigating the Comets' humiliation.
In London's Hyde Park the writer listened to a speaker defying God by asking to be struck dead within the next 2 minutes.
"Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!" – Vere's dilemma is at the heart of the story.
Lightning struck dead a boyhood acquaintance of Paul Auster's on a camping trip, giving him his master theme of "how fragile and fluky the world is".
"Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!" laments Starry Vere, captain of HMS Indomitable aboard which Billy Budd is set.
The Aztecs called paradise Tlalocan, eternally warm and abundant, but open exclusively, or almost exclusively, to people who drowned or were struck dead by lightning.
