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

One occasion did present itself when there seemed to be room for a bold and successful stroke for Radicalism.

From Autobiography by Mill, John Stuart

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

From Eastern Shame Girl by Souli, Charles Georges

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 Fullerton, George Stuart

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