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
Not even physicians were spared; and those who escaped trembled in anticipation of the fell stroke.
From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
From the time the falling cornice of snow had tossed up in a puff of smoke ten miles away to the fell stroke of the titanic leveller of the ages—not ten seconds had passed.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
In short, he had formed the stupendous ambition of becoming, at one fell stroke, a renowned ethnologist!
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
In another severe storm all the reindeer got away; and, of course, a valuable supply of fresh meat, besides transport, was cut off at one fell stroke.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles
