He rushed at the burglars, but another--it was an elderly man--stooped, picked the poker out of the grate and struck him a horrible blow as he passed.

The mayor of Rome said he would cede to New York as a gesture to the horrible blow it suffered.

What happened is a pestilence, a scourge not to be borne, a horrible blow to the very fabric of our nation.

He added: "This attack is a horrible blow, but not that kind of transformation, unless it accelerates existing trends that could have tremendously greater impact on the city, to wit, a major depression."

The death in 1708 of her husband, Prince George of Denmark, also dealt the queen a horrible blow.

Morcerf's courage had revived when he found himself alive after this horrible blow.

It's been a horrible blow.

"It's a horrible blow," said Aleksei A. Leonov, who in 1965 was the first Soviet astronaut to walk in space.

One after another, horrible blows landed on the Gaea-mind.

The professor's remark was "a horrible blow," but he realized that it was also the truth and that he had "about 100 stories about people I knew unlike this imaginary woman."