Article: If this is a home from home, can I swap please? The thought struck me several times over a weekend of unobtrusive, understated pampering.

Article: Only 10 minutes of this clash had elapsed when Colin Ryan stood ...
Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  June 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... has Only 10 minutes of this clash had elapsed when Colin Ryan stood over a 20-metre free in a central position and the thought struck that a goal was far more tempting and necessary than the obligatory point on offer. Clare were already fanning the flames ...

Article: Glossary: This thought struck me . . .
The Independent - London;  May 26, 1994 ;     700+ words ..."I've never been up this early before," I thought the other day, blearily shaving as I listened to Norman Lamont not regretting regretting nothing. I twigged about 20 minutes later, when the Today programme still hadn't materialised. This was the sound of a strike, BBC members of the NUJ and Bectu

Article:
Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  August 21, 2007 ;     546 words ... ... relaxing on my bed and reading, with my miniature poodle sleeping on my chest, when I looked down at her in adoration, and a thought struck me: Domesticated dogs have been around for 100,000 years (a liberal estimation). That's more than enough time for ...

Article: GEOFF HILL: I swear mum's the word for free calls.(Features)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  March 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... waiting for a lift in Middletown, the little village on the border. Suddenly the thought struck me that it was Mother's Day, after which the thought struck me that I had signally failed to thank my mother for having gone through all the ...

Article: True Featherweights; The Sport Might Seem Fluffy, but Pillow ...
The Washington Post;  January 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... his name is really Stacey P. Case. In 2004, he was driving through Austria with his band, the Tijuana Bibles, when a thought struck him out of nowhere: pillow fighting. Real fighting. Ladies only. "A light bulb went off," he recalls, smoking a ...

Article: Capitol train a big-league ride to Sacramento; River Cats' ...
San Francisco Chronicle;  June 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... but the sweetest little ballpark in northern California might not necessarily be the one alongside McCovey Cove. This thought struck me recently as I sat in the convivial stands of Raley Field, near the banks of the Sacramento River, and watched once ...

Article: The storm. (short story)
Stone Soup;  November 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... glass as if it was trying to get her. Suzi sat down in the booth and cried. She was lonely and scared and wet. Then a thought struck her. Why hadn't she stayed in the library and called from their telephone to ask her mom to pick her up! She saw the ...