successful stroke

To Count Louis of Nassau the credit of this bold and successful stroke was due.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

“One to thee, son of Tyingoza!” cries the wielder of the successful stroke, nimbly swerving to avoid the return one.

From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford

The agony of young Thurlow, pretending to look pleased, was depicted by a very successful stroke of Art.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 by Various

And thus they proceeded, the Colonel radiant with every successful stroke, and blaming mallet, ball, and ground when otherwise, reiterating, "I can't make a stroke to-day."

From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

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