Downstrike

Nearly twenty years have elapsed since my friend was downstruck by his attack.

God does not downstrike me, a god ?

There too the downstruck foe must yield his loos'ning grip.

Did you imagine us bigguns your servants, mebbe, or some such downstruck types?' 'Nobody were downstruck there. They were all with telling me what to do.

I tried to animate myself to behave a little more social, turning in circles a couple of times, making a slinky stepping pattern, and generally quickening my behavior in order to appear more alert and excited. I was not picked. I was downstruck. I felt the world had collapsed for me!

Instead of the downstricken criminal I had dreamed of, there stood before me a man of society thinking about the affairs of his club.

While a number of successful interruptions were made with this chute, it exhibited a proneness to "downstrike." The arc would run down one of the baffles onto one of the arcing contacts and short- circuit a portion of the metallic baffle stack.

This was a downstriking hammer which hit the strings at a point where a silk band revolved against them, activated by a treadle.

The wood in the Luberon looked back at him, the shafts of downstriking sunlight, the tiny scrap of fluttering light.

Tim felt himself lowered a few inches, his feet finding the ground again, and, as Debuffier's hand reared back to deliver a paralyzing blow to the head, Tim rotated in, Green Beret style, a downstriking punch to the groin, quick and hard like a bear river-plunging for fish.

The boy glimmered Among the hollowed darkness of the rocks, Shot through the shallow places laughing, Stood in the sunlight, high up, And like a god suspended in green air He followed falling water and downstruck.

The car jerked away just as Piyal was knocked down, and looking up the last he saw was so many downstriking, hammering feet.

As one might imagine, the design of a downstriking action is very challenging since gravity cannot be used to help bring the hammer back to its “ready” position in preparation for a subsequent note.

Parsival bounced upright and as the fellow reined close and chopped a swordstroke at his head the young knight, forgetting his own weapon in his rage, caught the downstriking arm with both hands and heaved the shocked man up out of his seat, across his own horse's neck, and spinning down the hill after his companion who was still rolling, quite slowly now, in the lush green field.

For example, a short card requiring minimum carding of short fibres may be designed to take fibres from the feed rollers using a downstriking licker straight to the cylinder.

Quill stood at the railing and watched the bird slowly fade into the distance, swooping gloriously under bridges, its downstriking wingtips all but flicking the water.

Those which are full of spindly, ingrowing wood we will thin rigorously, working with one of the nursery models before our mind's eye, and taking care that when our task is done, not a single ingrowing or downstriking shoot is left on the tree.

A parent-child dialogue is a downstriking dialogue and a child-parent dialogue is an upstriking dialogue.

There was no trace of plaster inside the stair tower in the Barns: most of the interior was in brick, and the mortar pointing was downstruck and usually scored.

A struck joint is made by running the trowel along the joint before the mortar is hard, either pressing in at the top: upstruck (or weathered), which exposes the mortar to the weather, or pressing in at the bottom: downstruck (or struck).

Armstrong doesn't use the story-within-a-story motif; his version begins with a New Orleans funeral jazz slow shuffle, picking up the tempo at 0.08, led by Armstrong's trumpet, trailed by the unmistakably wildly wandering New Orleans clarinet, skeletal barrelhouse piano, downstruck banjo and the ragged-shoed chuf-chuf-chuf of the melancholic New Orleans swing.

The Earlies Gap Biotite Gneiss may therefore indicate a downstrike lithologic change resulting from original variations of the protolith and from a more thorough.

Pyroclastics along the southeast shore of Manitou Island appear to be the [downstrike] equivalents of Troutlet Lake pyroclastics.

The second character that contribute to the asymmetry is the convexing of the preprotocrista. The convex preprotocrista enlarges the trigon basin in the downstrike direction of the hypoconid, thus increasing Phase II contact (Fig. 53G).

Amal supracrustals and other rocks were traced from the syncline core to the rest of Magnusson's (1960) 'Gothian' area and thence downstrike across the alleged Gothian-Pregothian boundary into the 'Pregothian' region.

The spring is downstrike from a fairly large area of low perennial stream density.

Analytical results of the IP profiles for both Gold Lake and Crestaurum areas (Katsube et al., 2006), suggest that the mineralization in the shear zones are discontinuous downstrike.

However, a lone foreshock at the southern end of this zone, some 140 km downstrike of the mainshock's epicenter, implies that conditions existed for rupture into that zone.