hammer blow

The thought hit her with the force of a hammer blow.

And that had just been the first hammer blow of the day.

A hammer blow from a force field crushed the area.

And there her heart beat in the same hammer blows as his own.

The sight that met his eyes hit him like a hammer blow.

All the following day I sat behind my desk waiting for the next hammer blow to fall.

The bullet felt like a hammer blow in his left shoulder.

The words on the first page landed like hammer blows.

A billion years deep and again darkness fell, like a hammer blow.

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.

Hammer blows will soon fall upon the people of Britain and their cities.

Then a hammer blow in the chest knocked the air out of his body.

They were all silent as insight hit a hammer blow.

Each word fell from his tongue with the weight of a hammer blow.

Then somebody set a glass on the table, and it sounded like a hammer blow.

The one who had been drawing was flung back with a hammer blow!

The measures have hit the populace like a hammer blow.

She looked up at him, and her next words were like a hammer blow to him.

It hit him smack in the middle of the chest like a hammer blow.

He gave them three hammering blows, but barely made an impression.

This causes them to deliver a much more powerful hammer blow.

The older man responded with a hammer blow to the boy's nuts.

These were hammer blows she was landing, from a distance of about a foot and a half.

This time the pressure of her thumb felt more like a hammer blow than a blade.