They battered each other for several frenzied moments, until Jeremy managed a particularly vicious strike which dropped his opponent's guard.

Five times more Jervis knocked him flat, and each time with what looked like an even more vicious strike.

Philip used the combat judo he had been taught, two short, vicious strikes that cracked the other's rib cage.

Jammed his thumb inward in a vicious strike and felt the pressure come off his head for an instant.

First came the hard jolt of shock, like a vicious strike to the heart.

Blood exploded from a vicious strike below his eye and his head rocked.

The lieutenant followed that vicious strike with an elbow to the side of his head, dropping him to the deck where he released his grip on his disruptor.

He blocked another vicious strike aimed at his collarbone.

Lightning split the blackness in vicious, recurrent strikes.

It was the scene of a vicious 1935 strike, the Battle of Ballantyne Pier.