"Strook" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... observe how thick your dangers meet In his clear drifts! your mother and your brothers, Now cited to the senate; their friend Gallus, Feasted to-day by Caesar, since committed! Sabinus here we met, hurried to fetters: The senators all strook with fear and silence, Save those whose hopes depend not on good means, But force their private prey from public spoil. And you must know, if here you stay, your state Is sure to be the subject of his ...
— Sejanus: His Fall • Ben Jonson
... veiling her eyelids close; And modestly they open'd as she rose: Thence flew Love's arrow with the golden head; And thus Leander was enamoured. Stone-still he stood, and evermore he gaz'd, Till with the fire, that from his countenance blaz'd, Relenting Hero's gentle heart was strook: Such force and virtue hath an amorous look. It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is over-rul'd by fate. ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum
... close: Lord, how I long to see him! A Lute strook handsomely, a voice too; I'le hear that: These Verses are no Law, they sound too sweetly, ...
— The Spanish Curate - A Comedy • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher |
