crowning stroke
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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
And the use of the Oxford binding was the crowning stroke of commercial insight.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Elbert Hubbard
At which crowning stroke of misfortune,—the timepiece must have slipped from his pocket into the water while he was tinkering with that infamous carbureter,—Maitland turned eloquently red in the face.
From The Brass Bowl by Louis Joseph Vance
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
It is a crowning stroke that he has not seen fit to change the name of the vessel.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
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