I can see darkness falling in great black on the stricken town.

Charley prised his sisters away from their stricken town and headed into the country with them.

Cradled in his tangled harness like a baby in a stork's bill, Murphy floated gently down towards the stricken town.

From his ship he sent a longboat which was met at a halfway point by the Government sloop from the stricken town.

Doughbelly directed us into a wood-lot overlooking the stricken town.

In some stricken towns, newly arrived foreigners found no organized rescue efforts under way and took charge themselves, directing battalions of eager volunteers.

Other small craft were leaving the stricken town, the news having got round, and its consequences all too clearly perceived.

National Guard helicopters searched for stranded people and shuttled food to stricken towns where grocery shelves were bare.

The exultant enemy replaced their shattered guns and drew their lines closer still round the stricken town.

Together the men directed the raising of funds and the purchase and shipment of supplies for the stricken town.