struck home

Ted had that wonderful sardonic smile, particularly after one of his wry and wicked jokes struck home.

He drew himself up, and stood still waiting till the arrow struck home.

Yet only for a moment; though but one arrow in a hundred struck home, here and there men were bleeding, wounded horses plunging.

That shaft struck home, and, for a moment, Sergius could find no answer.

Murmurs from the Amal's troops showed that these words struck home.

Such a person, were he normal, would feel what the girl felt as the message of that noxious odour struck home to her mind.