Thesaurus / strokes
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He had ridden fast; she had heard the quick strokes of the horse's hoofs on the ground before she saw him.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONThe engine is now working regularly twelve strokes per minute, with 60 lbs.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKThe engine is going fourteen strokes per minute, 10-feet stroke, 14½-inch box.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKIf we have dry weather the water will, at the next shallow level, fall off two strokes per minute before the next lift is in fork.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKThe boiler is strong enough and large enough to work the engine thirty strokes per minute, with 30 lbs.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKThe result is ten strokes per minute, 6-feet stroke, with half a bushel of coal per hour, lifting six thousand pounds weight.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKWith intensifying violence edict followed edict, like successive strokes of thunder in a raging storm.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROWHe walks slowly, dusting the iron railing, then turns to give my door a few light strokes with the cat-o'-many-tails.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANThe regular footfall beats against my brain like hammer strokes.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANThe whole description is made with bold, simple strokes of the brush, offering a vivid picture not to be forgotten.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERWORDS RELATED TO STROKES
- accolade
- acquirement
- acquisition
- advantage
- blue-ribbon
- bonus
- bounty
- cake
- capture
- carrot
- championship
- citation
- crown
- decoration
- dividend
- feather in cap
- first place
- gold
- gold star
- gravy
- guerdon
- haul
- honor
- inducement
- jackpot
- laurel
- loot
- medal
- meed
- payoff
- pickings
- pillage
- plum
- plunder
- possession
- premium
- privilege
- purse
- recompense
- requital
- reward
- scholarship
- spoil
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- stakes
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- swag
- title
- trophy
- windfall
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- award
- benefit
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- carrot
- comeuppance
- compensation
- crown
- cue
- dividend
- feather in cap
- fringe benefit
- gain
- garland
- goodies
- gravy
- grease
- guerdon
- honor
- just deserts
- meed
- merit
- perks
- plum
- premium
- profit
- punishment
- recompense
- remuneration
- repayment
- requital
- retribution
- return
- salve
- strokes
- sweetener
- tip
- wages
- accolades
- awards
- benefits
- bonuses
- bounties
- carrots
- comeuppances
- compensations
- crowns
- cues
- dividends
- feather in caps
- fringe benefits
- gains
- garlands
- goodies
- gravies
- grease
- guerdons
- honors
- just deserts
- meeds
- merits
- perks
- plums
- premiums
- profits
- punishments
- recompense
- remunerations
- repayments
- requitals
- retribution
- returns
- salves
- strokes
- sweeteners
- tips
- wages
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