counterstroke

And if you suggest a fault, its panegyrists are always ready with a counterstroke.

Late that evening Frank advised his paper of a counterstroke.

We must make of his every attempt an opportunity for a counterstroke.

Yet the settlers felt much safer when they learned that the redoubtable George Rogers Clark intended a counterstroke.

Stroke and counterstroke and parry of rapiers and lightning-like motion glinted in the air.

Counterstroke after counterstroke had failed, and Russia was now tottering towards a collapse.

Hume lingered for a moment, offering a counterstroke of indifference in what he had always known would be a test of wits.

After frightful losses the Abyssinians wavered, and the wise Arab seized the moment for a counterstroke.

The order was sent immediately to Longstreet to deliver the counterstroke.

The Russian counterstroke penetrated into Eylau itself and Napoleon himself was in serious danger.