crowning stroke
Example Sentences
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This was vexing enough, but in the particular circumstances it was a crowning stroke of misfortune.
From Round the World in Seven Days by Herbert Strang
I was told that the younger had succumbed to her troubles—in particular to the crowning stroke of misfortune which had deprived her of her only child, a daughter.
From Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands by Edmund Gosse
The arrangement of the Mounteney property was the crowning stroke of Mr. Stapylton Toad's professional celebrity.
From Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
But the crowning stroke came on Easter Sunday, the most sacred day of the Greek Church.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
Stout thruster, in the push you have no peer, Yet more supremely brilliant This crowning stroke of progress toward the rear, This strong recoil from which with heartened cheer We hope to bound resilient.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 by Various
