He knew nothing of the Revolution; yet he struck the note of it.

Madame d'Auffray struck the note of intimacy earlier than is habitual.

The bluff strident words struck the note sailors understood, and they cheered him lustily.

Still, Mrs. Heth had struck the note, and struck hard.

The bedroom was large and airy, and the appointments struck the note of dainty simplicity.

Here the evolutionist struck the note of optimism.

Bayly had now struck the note, the sweet, sentimental note, of the early, innocent, Victorian age.

The astute masters of the game of politics on the Democratic side struck the note of legality.

Julius Caesar struck the note of real history: Quorum pars magna fui-"Ofwhich I was a great part."

It struck the note of the new era, which is called in American history "the era of good feeling."

I had not struck the note that translated my purpose, and I need not reproduce the whole of the tune I played.

Peyton Randolph, presiding, struck the note of the moment with a phrase: "I am not a Virginian, but an American."

Even at nineteen, for any one attuned to spiritual meaning, he would have struck the note of mystery, faintly, perhaps, but certainly.

He had struck the note of persecution, making a patriotic appeal to the Italian populace; and the foreign section of the city seethed in consequence.

"If I've struck the note I won't bother you again," he urged; and Betton groaningly consented.