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
James had been so well-behaved that morning it was only logical for her to anticipate that he was about to abolish at one fell stroke all his hard-earned merits.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
By one fell stroke he was put in second place, a man who had to await the return of Palmer—and that in his own church, so to speak.
From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore
Not even physicians were spared; and those who escaped trembled in anticipation of the fell stroke.
From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
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
