"Strike back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... translation from the Greek would render this reviler. He must not strike back with the tongue; in ...
— The Gospel Day • Charles Ebert Orr
... aspiration, was now impure, and ungenerous, and ignoble. Above all else, he had lost that tenderness which is the top and crown of a strong man. He felt as if the world had lifted its hand against him, and as if he were ready and eager to strike back. ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... from your sharp resentment in ejaculatory prayer and in a heart-cleansing great good-will, your heart, before you are a hundred steps on, will be as black with ill-will as his is. But that must not again be. Would you hate or strike back at a blind man who stumbled and fell against you on the street? Would you retaliate at a maniac who gnashed his teeth and shook his fist at you on his way past you to the madhouse? Or at a corpse being carried past you that had been too long without burial? ...
— Bunyan Characters - Third Series - The Holy War • Alexander Whyte
... "We may as well strike back in the country now," said the leader, "at least until we can find some bushes ...
— A Prisoner of Morro - In the Hands of the Enemy • Upton Sinclair |
