Sentence examples for struck himself from inspiring English sources

He said Mr Scargill struck himself accidentally against what looked like a railway sleeper.

He reported: There was a long pause, and he suddenly took a little hop and struck himself on the leg with his thin cane..

We searched every corner until Kim suddenly struck himself on the head with his hand, went to a cupboard and brought back the boot.

He reported: **{:.break one} ** There was a long pause, and he suddenly took a little hop and struck himself on the leg with his thin cane...

Dukan, who lives in Paris, has celebrity fans in Jennifer Lopez, Penelope Cruz, and Carole and Kate Middleton, but after being accused of giving damaging advice to teenagers earlier this year, struck himself off the medical register.

His demurral barely caused a ripple then, compared to, say, the airtime and bandwidth expended this month when Ohio's governor, Ted Strickland, publicly struck himself from whatever Obama running mate list he may or may not have been on.

Kinzler Allen Davis found a handgun inside a bedroom in his home and then discharged it, striking himself in the head.

Rafa Nadal recovered from accidentally striking himself in the face with his racket to see off his Spanish compatriot David Ferrer 4-6, 7-6, 6-0 in the Madrid Masters quarter-finals.

Ian McKellen is splendid as a San Francisco activist who works to bring attention to the epidemic and eventually is stricken himself.

I made a fist and let him strike himself with it, I felt the strength of him there, he was like iron, I thought, or like something dearer, really, like marble, and when he gestured for me to hit him again, harder, I did hit him, not very hard but hard enough to satisfy him.

For Locke describes "a Man striking himself, or his Friend, by a Convulsive motion of his Arm, which it is not in his Power…to…forbear" as "acting" (E1-5 II.xxi.9: 238), andescribeses the convulsive leg motion caused by "that odd Disease called Chorea Sancti Viti [St. Vitus's Dance]" as an "Action" (E1-5 II.xxi.11: 239).