Though the pain he felt mounted with each successive blow the scene around him offered no sign of capitulation.

Barnes dispatched one Laker over for 21 runs, including two successive blows over the long on boundary for six, and two fours, and Australia's lead went past the 400 mark with nine wickets still in hand.

Supporting yourself as a freelance writer has never been easy, but with these successive blows, the lot of New York freelancers has substantially worsened.

Yet since February, when it peaked at $60.12 per American depository share, Telmex has suffered successive blows, dropping more than 25 percent, to the mid-40's.

Fragments of bone, some of them quite sharp from the fractured skull, were driven into the structures of the frontal lobe of the brain, and successive blows caused severe lacerations to brain tissue in that area.

The fatal injuries were caused by successive blows, forcing the head of the victim into the sharp metal corner of a low table in that room.

Sulu could feel progressively more force behind each successive blow.

He dispatched one Laker over for 21 runs, included two successive blows over the boundary for six.

The eirenes did as they were instructed in such cases: they prepared to wallop Tripod so hard in four rapid successive blows that the impact would knock him unconscious and thus preserve his life.

These successive blows are often enough to loosen or tighten a tight or corroded nut or bolt or in some cases break or strip the fastener.