A billion years deep and again darkness fell, like a hammer blow.
The sight that met his eyes hit him like a hammer blow.
The words on the first page landed like hammer blows.
And that had just been the first hammer blow of the day.
If the animal took too long to die, it was put down by a hammer blow to the head.
Her words were hard, like hammer blows, and Harry started to get angry.
Though the day wasn't yet warm, the smell hit him like a hammer blow.
A hammer blow from a force field crushed the area.
All the following day I sat behind my desk waiting for the next hammer blow to fall.
The thought hit her with the force of a hammer blow.
The reputation of Minneapolis had taken a heavy hit in 1902.
Human Resources, for example, took a heavy hit last year, as the agency lost 1,591 staff members to early retirement.
Plus, the mob as we know it has taken some pretty heavy hits from law enforcement.
With river and stream levels rising, Toronto's infrastructure took a heavy hit.
But youth work has taken a heavy hit in the cuts.
"Means Engineering took a heavy hit, and the com links're down."
Health care for the poor has taken a particularly heavy hit, even though children are dying in staggering numbers.
Our reputation is going to take a heavy hit.
He stabbed a conductor's finger at open space, as if directing the music of heavy hits.
A few moments before that, another Washington scoring chance ended on the heaviest hit of the night.
