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  • A hooded cobra in striking position. Coloured engraving, ca. 1792.
  • Clocks: a striking mechanism. Engraving by S. Porter after C. Varley.
  • Clocks: a striking mechanism. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after C. Varley.
  • British airforce servicemen performing a sketch, striking an animated pose. Photograph, 1918.
  • British airforce servicemen performing a sketch, striking an animated pose. Photograph, 1918.
  • Lightning striking a rural building during a storm: onlookers react in terror. Engraving, 16--.
  • Manner of striking a stone where the edge is sharp to shew direct percussion.
  • A male bodybuilder wearing bathing trunks, striking a "Cossack dance" pose, in a studio setting.
  • A woman striking a pose in masque costume, with a stork or crane. Woodcut by T. Stimmer, 1580.
  • The angel of death striking a door during the plague of Rome. Engraving by J.G. Levasseur after J. Delaunay.