successful stroke
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He tore off the wrapper eagerly, for now at last he would learn whether he had made a bold and successful stroke, or only a frightful mistake.
From The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey
One occasion did present itself when there seemed to be room for a bold and successful stroke for Radicalism.
From Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
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
The successful stroke made in September at Copenhagen filled the Czar with solicitude; for, like his ally, he had hoped to gain time, and such promptness in imitating Napoleon's contempt for neutral rights dismayed him.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
I may successively bend all my energies upon the winning of a game, the doing of a successful stroke of business, the defeat of a social rival, the success of a philanthropic undertaking.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton
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