The blow had struck him in the back, but he could see blood running freely down to his hand and then the ground.

He was breathing hard already, and not one blow struck.

It was like a blow struck into his heart, a physical pain.

Then he knew that blow struck in the dark was not needed, after all.

The blow struck the beast square in the back of the head.

It was as if the blows I'd struck him then were falling now.

The blow struck, after she had been admitted to the office.

The second blow also struck true, and if anything had greater force behind it.

In one case the couple had already separated, after 14 years of marriage, six months before the blow struck.

A swift blow struck my entire body with full force.