The _ Lusitania _ had been struckstrikeby two torpedoes in succession and was sinkingsinkrapidly , while the boats were being launchedlaunchwith all possible speed .
Margaret was struckstrikeafresh by her cousin 's beauty .
That struckstrikeme as the most amazing thing I had ever heard .
She had , this lady , a perfect plain propriety , an expensive subdued suitability , that her companion was not free to analyse , but that struckstrikehim , so that his consciousness of it was instantly acute , as a quality quite new to him .
It had begunbeginin fact already upstairs and before the dressing glass that struckstrikehim as blocking further , so strangely , the dimness of the window of his dull bedroom ; begunbeginwith a sharper surveysurveyof the elements of Appearance than he had for a long time been moved to make .
We had been married five years before it struckstrikeus that we might as well make use of this place by coming down and living in it .
Without waiting to rise he whippedwhipa revolver from his pocket , firingfirepoint blank at the great mountain of muscle towering before him ; but , quick as he was , John Clayton was almost as quick , so that the bullet which was intended for the sailor 's heart lodgedlodgein the sailor 's leg instead , for Lord Greystoke had struckstrikedown the captain 's arm as he had seenseethe weapon flashflashin the sun .
It struckstrikehim that her position at the tea-table , among all these elderly people , was not without its difficulties , and he checkedcheckhis inclination to find her , or her attitude , generally antipathetic to him .
I thoughtthinkof the terms we now kept with these heathen ; of how they came and went familiarly amongst us , spying out our weakness , and losing the salutary awe which that noblest captain had struckstrikeinto their souls ; of how many were employed as hunters to bring down deer for lazy masters ; of how , breakingbreakthe law , and that not secretly , we gavegivethem knives and arms , a soldier 's bread , in exchangeexchangefor pelts and pearls ; of how their emperor was forever sending us smooth messages ; of how their lips smiled and their eyes frowned .