fell stroke

Example Sentences

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And then – boom! – with one fell stroke of an adapter’s arbitrariness, Mr. Kelly altered the play’s ending in a way that crudely shrinks and simplifies its intentions.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2010

It was not in the way of things that he, who had always had everything, should at one fell stroke be left desolate.

From Old Rose and Silver by Reed, Myrtle

Here was all the solid foundation knocked from under him at one fell stroke, as if by a cannon.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

At one fell stroke all petty annoyances and corroding cares are sunk into nothingness.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Hubbard, Elbert

Not even physicians were spared; and those who escaped trembled in anticipation of the fell stroke.

From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)