- past tense form of strike.
strook
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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When such music sweet Their hearts and ears did greet, As never was by mortal finger strook; Divinely-warbled voice Answering the stringed noise, As all their souls in blissful rapture took.
From The Hundred Best English Poems by Adam L. (Adam Luke) Gowans
To the Count’s door rode Sir Niels, Ne’er from that withdrew his look; Thrice thereon with iron lance Heavily the hero strook.
From Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne two ballads by George Henry Borrow
Milton uses the three participle forms, strook, struck, and strucken.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
But he, the King of Heav'n, obscure on high, Bar'd his red arm, and, launching from the sky His writhen bolt, not shaking empty smoke, Down to the deep abyss the flaming felon strook.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
His fame, his conduct, and that martial look, The guilty Scots with such a terror strook, That to his courage they resign the field, Who to his bounty had refused to yield.
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham
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