Their unrelenting newness strikes some as too austere, even embarrassing, and certainly out of place amid the obvious gentility of the neighborhood's 19th-century row houses.

But the other ship struck with a shattering force amid geysers of spray!

Death was to strike amid the storm.

Howling men dodged the flame-belching missile as it struck the floor amid a terrific deluge of sparks.

A sideways leap just as the blade came down, hearing it strike the rocky ground amid a shower of sparks.

The power failure struck at just after 11 a.m. amid record high pre-summer temperatures of 86 degrees.

If he'd struck amid rocks and sea, he might have hurt his ally.

At the opening last month, Roger G. Kennedy, the museum director, struck somber notes amid the celebratory mood.

Titled "Baghdad Journal," the project strikes a somewhat incongruous note amid the magazine's usual fare of reviews, gossip and party pictures.

And there was lightning that struck amid our troops, and it brought death.