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verb

Stricken past part., adj. (past part. of Strike)

Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer. Note: (See Strike, n.)

Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21. "Abraham was old and well stricken in age."

Whole; entire; said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock. (Scot.) "He persevered for a stricken hour in such a torrent of unnecessary tattle." "Speeches are spoken by the stricken hour, day after day, week, perhaps, after week."

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"Stricken" Quotes from Famous Books

... the most active in the chase, and now was far more conscience-stricken than either ...

— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton

... townsfolk from early mass. They look unnaturally old and colorless. Their steps lag drearily.—HANS the Butcher and his wife; AXEL the Smith with his wife, and PETER the Cobbler, meet, on their way to the little street, left, and greet one another with painstaking, stricken kindness. ...

— The Piper • Josephine Preston Peabody

... Who can say? We learn that Ingres was twice, and, according to accredited reports, happily, married. His first wife, a humbly-born maiden from his native province, died in 1849, leaving the septuagenarian so desolate, helpless and stricken that kindly interveners set to work and re-married him. The second Mme. Ingres, although thirty years his junior, gave him, his biographer tells us, "that domestic peace and happiness of which for a brief ...

— In the Heart of the Vosges - And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... of him soon. If Colonel Cromwell do not surrender Cousin Randolph we are pledged to his killing, and if he do, then our friend rejoins his army; and I pray the devil my master that I may have the joy to pistol him on some stricken field." ...

— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... Lamentations you will find these words—here he raised his voice a bit and began to tap the palm of his left hand with the index finger of his right, continuing: "They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger. For these pine away stricken through want of the fruits of the field." Upon my honour as a gentleman, Mrs Opper, I was never so ...

— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller

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