Warner turned: Philippa, wearing the scarlet and black peasant dress of a lost province, sat sideways on her window sill, knitting while she watched the passing cavalry below. 212.
Stook. At that moment d’Avrigny’s glance met Noirtier’s eye.
It glistened with such extraordinary joy, so rich and full of thought, that the physician was struck. One of the old forms of struck.
In the early eds. He placed the young girl again on the chair,—her lips were scarcely discernible, they were so pale and white, as well as her whole face,—and remained motionless, looking at Noirtier, who appeared to anticipate and commend all he did.
of Shakespeare, we find struck, stroke, and strook (or strooke) for the past tense, and all these, together with stricken, strucken, stroken, and strooken, for the participle. Cf.
Milton, Hymn of Nativity, 95: