successful stroke
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This successful stroke had put him in the best of humours, and from time to time he laughed quietly to himself as if enjoying some rich joke.
From My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France by Hayens, Herbert
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 Sloane, William Milligan
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
He had done a very successful stroke of business in Liverpool, and was returning to Laburnum Villa in the highest spirits.
From The School Queens by Meade, L. T.
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
