crowning stroke

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To C�sar it fell to put the crowning stroke to that work.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

But the crowning stroke of feeling is dependent on a circumstance seldom observed.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John

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

Fate had the crowning stroke though still to give, for the young mother, agonized by this loss, was seized with a fatal inflammation of the brain.

From Great Italian and French Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

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 O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)