successful stroke

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Haig's successful stroke was delivered on a front of nearly two miles south of the Ypres-Roulers railway.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

We now, however, quit the subject—interesting, indeed, and all-important—of the tariff, with the deliberate expression of our opinion, that it is, taken as a whole, a very bold, masterly, and successful stroke of policy.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

"And what successful stroke of business have you concluded?"

From Eastern Shame Girl by Souli, Charles Georges

Wilkes and Johnson then fell to bantering the Scotch; Burke complimented Boswell on his successful stroke of diplomacy in bringing Johnson and Wilkes together.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

Another successful stroke was the destruction of Fort Frontenac, which was taken by a provincial army under Colonel Bradstreet.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis