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"ref": "1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 17, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 297",
"text": "As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life—a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways.",
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"ref": "1987, Edward Rutherfurd, Sarum, New York: Crown, page 641",
"text": "[…] Pembroke led seven thousand men to rout the French. It was a brief triumph. In January 1558, after Pembroke himself had returned, the French struck back and attacked Calais.",
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"ref": "2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France,",
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"(intransitive) To respond to an attack by attacking one's opponent or opponents."
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"ref": "1846, Herman Melville, chapter 5, in Typee, New York: Wiley and Putnam, page 40",
"text": "The next day the starboard watch, to which we both belonged, was to be sent ashore on liberty; and availing ourselves of this opportunity, we determined, as soon after the landing as possible, to separate ourselves from the rest of the men without exciting their suspicions, and strike back at once for the mountains.",
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"ref": "1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York: Scribner, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 389",
"text": "It was in this frame of mind that, striking back from the shore one morning into the windings of an unfamiliar lane, she came suddenly upon the figure of George Dorset.",
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"ref": "1973, Colin Fletcher, “Discovery”, in The Winds of Mara, New York: Knopf, page 295",
"text": "When we left camp before sunrise, heading on a beeline for the most northerly gully, I drove eagerly, with the kind of shining hope that early morning starts can generate. But eight hours later, when we struck back toward camp across the open plain, I found myself sagging in the driver’s seat.",
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"To leave or set out (in a particular direction, often to where one has been)."
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"ref": "1563, William Fulke, A Goodly Gallerye with a Most Pleasaunt Prospect, into the Garden of Naturall Contemplation, London: William Griffith, Book 1",
"text": "[…] the lowest [region of the air] beinge next the earth and the waters, is temperat, and by repercussion or striking back of the sunne beames waxeth hoate, and by absence of them is made colde, being subiect to Wynter and Sommer.",
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"ref": "1645, Edward Reynolds, Israels Prayer in Time of Trouble with Gods Gracious Answer Thereunto, London: Robert Bostock, Sermon 3, p. 34",
"text": "A direct love begets a Reflect love, as the heat wrought in the earth strikes back a heat up into the aire againe.",
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"text": "1794, Robert Jephson, Roman Portraits, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, “Antony and Cleopatra,” lines 2079-2080, p. 161,\n[…] as when down Cydnus’ stream\nHer burnish’d prow struck back the sun’s bright beam,"
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"(transitive, obsolete) To send (light, heat, a substance) in the direction of its source."
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"text": "1669, uncredited translator, The Vulcano’s, or, Burning and Fire-Vomiting Mountains, by Athanasius Kircher, London: John Allen, Chapter 5, p. 28,\n[…] if you cast a stone thereinto, it being struck back presently, you shall receive it cast forth again with great force."
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"ref": "1693, Samuel Wesley, The Life of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour, Jesus Christ, London: Charles Harper and Benjamin Motte, Book 8, p. 282",
"text": "[…] by the sound\nOf those Majestic Words, struck back, they fell to th’ Ground.",
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"ref": "1792, Richard Cumberland, Calvary: or the Death of Christ, London: C. Dilly, Book 3, lines 104-106, p. 77",
"text": "Now sudden rage\nImpell’d him onward, now with palsied fear\nStruck back, he reel’d and shook in ev’ry joint.",
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"text": "As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life—a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways.",
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{
"ref": "1987, Edward Rutherfurd, Sarum, New York: Crown, page 641",
"text": "[…] Pembroke led seven thousand men to rout the French. It was a brief triumph. In January 1558, after Pembroke himself had returned, the French struck back and attacked Calais.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France,",
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"text": "The next day the starboard watch, to which we both belonged, was to be sent ashore on liberty; and availing ourselves of this opportunity, we determined, as soon after the landing as possible, to separate ourselves from the rest of the men without exciting their suspicions, and strike back at once for the mountains.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York: Scribner, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 389",
"text": "It was in this frame of mind that, striking back from the shore one morning into the windings of an unfamiliar lane, she came suddenly upon the figure of George Dorset.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1973, Colin Fletcher, “Discovery”, in The Winds of Mara, New York: Knopf, page 295",
"text": "When we left camp before sunrise, heading on a beeline for the most northerly gully, I drove eagerly, with the kind of shining hope that early morning starts can generate. But eight hours later, when we struck back toward camp across the open plain, I found myself sagging in the driver’s seat.",
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"ref": "1563, William Fulke, A Goodly Gallerye with a Most Pleasaunt Prospect, into the Garden of Naturall Contemplation, London: William Griffith, Book 1",
"text": "[…] the lowest [region of the air] beinge next the earth and the waters, is temperat, and by repercussion or striking back of the sunne beames waxeth hoate, and by absence of them is made colde, being subiect to Wynter and Sommer.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1645, Edward Reynolds, Israels Prayer in Time of Trouble with Gods Gracious Answer Thereunto, London: Robert Bostock, Sermon 3, p. 34",
"text": "A direct love begets a Reflect love, as the heat wrought in the earth strikes back a heat up into the aire againe.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1794, Robert Jephson, Roman Portraits, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, “Antony and Cleopatra,” lines 2079-2080, p. 161,\n[…] as when down Cydnus’ stream\nHer burnish’d prow struck back the sun’s bright beam,"
}
],
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],
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],
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},
{
"ref": "1693, Samuel Wesley, The Life of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour, Jesus Christ, London: Charles Harper and Benjamin Motte, Book 8, p. 282",
"text": "[…] by the sound\nOf those Majestic Words, struck back, they fell to th’ Ground.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1792, Richard Cumberland, Calvary: or the Death of Christ, London: C. Dilly, Book 3, lines 104-106, p. 77",
"text": "Now sudden rage\nImpell’d him onward, now with palsied fear\nStruck back, he reel’d and shook in ev’ry joint.",
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