crowning stroke

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I was told that the younger had succumbed to her troubles—in particular to the crowning stroke of misfortune which had deprived her of her only child, a daughter.

From Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands by Gosse, Edmund

And the use of the Oxford binding was the crowning stroke of commercial insight.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Hubbard, Elbert

His crowning stroke of cruelty was to forbid the boy to leave the house on the great evening, so that he might not even obtain a glimpse of Clive.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert

The arrangement of the Mounteney property was the crowning stroke of Mr. Stapylton Toad's professional celebrity.

From Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

At which crowning stroke of misfortune,—the timepiece must have slipped from his pocket into the water while he was tinkering with that infamous carbureter,—Maitland turned eloquently red in the face.

From The Brass Bowl by Vance, Louis Joseph