Without a sound, he fell like a poleaxed steer.

Even in his state of poleaxed dismay, Max raised an eyebrow at that.

The Spaniard fainted, collapsing beside his wife like a poleaxed steer.

Bump against the wrong kind of leaf, and you might keel over like a poleaxed steer."

Watching you stare at her like a poleaxed ox will be as good as a badger any day.

'Gregory said you wandered out of the house looking like a poleaxed ox.

"Oh," Roger oofed, his expression remarkably like that of a poleaxed steer.

Uncle Doj stopped dead in his tracks, as numb as a poleaxed steer.

He went down like a poleaxed steer, falling right at my feet, out cold as a stepmother's embrace; then I just faded back into the brush.

And no, I wasn't eavesdropping on your thoughts-they were plain enough from that poleaxed look on your face."

The Neanderthal fell like a poleaxed steer, and Brom sapped him with the hilt of his knife.

When a tree falls in the forest this is just how it sounds, thought Tach inanely as nine feet of joker went down like a poleaxed ox.

"Nothing, except that Almorella tells me the girl has been impossible for the last two weeks, and you look about as bright as a poleaxed steer these days.

The end of the staff cracked into the whipman's neck at the base of the throat; he went down like a poleaxed steer, and the staff rebounded to crack alongside the head of the Soldier who held Madelon.

Valda had heard it named the Battle of Jeramel, but only by some of the bare handful of Amadician nobles who escaped, dazed as poleaxed steers yet still trying mechanically to put the best face on events.

Fractions of seconds seemed to stretch endlessly as she worked her way around writhing, struggling forms, trying to bring her own weapon up, watching helplessly as Naroin was struck from behind with an unsporting head shot that toppled the small woman like a poleaxed steer.

By then it wasn't empty anymore but three-quarters full of pool water, and its previous owner, a tourist from California, had his back turned, so the impact dropped him like a poleaxed steer, and his friends ended up having to drive him up to the emergency room on Stock Island.