successful stroke
Example Sentences
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The people were carried away with a fanatic zeal at the successful stroke of the Maid.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
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
Each innings lasts until one side has gained eight points, the points going to whichever player makes the successful stroke.
From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
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
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
