struck measure

He spoke of the present-day tragedies and turmoil that struck the city while he and his classmates were in the academy.
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The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.
Children's Ways|James Sully
The king was struck with horror at the description I had given him of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
(p. 054) At this period it appears that tobacco was used as money, and as the measure of price and value.
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Not only have its fundamental principles been fully vindicated but in most details the working of the measure has been successful.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips

British Dictionary definitions for struck measure

struck measure

noun

a measure of grain, etc, in which the contents are made level with the top of the container rather than being heaped

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