hit out

Feeling somebody grab at his wallet in the darkness, he hit out at the assailant.

'What have we done? What shall we ever do? Just drift and criticize, while people who know what they want snatch it away from us and laugh.”

“Perhaps you are that sort. I’m not. When the moment comes I shall hit out like any ploughboy. …"

having the sound of those auncient poets still ringing in his eares, he mought needes, in singing, hit out some of their tunes