masterstroke

Dada used to say, that it is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him.

When Fanny returned with your letter this morning, I prepared for a masterstroke.

As for you, Susan, it was a masterstroke your venturing into my den.

Matcham often thinks of the masterstroke by which he won the laughing witch who now.

It was a masterstroke, and so Sybil pronounced it afterwards.

It might have been, from his large assent to it, a masterstroke of high policy.

It was a masterstroke of the bold policy of the new Government.

Ochino's arch-fiend, like Milton's, announces a masterstroke of genius.

Then the old man pushed up the sleeves of his caftan, like one who prepares to execute a masterstroke.

Whether what I called my masterstroke will really turn out to be one will be proved in a very short time.