fell stroke
Example Sentences
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And then – boom! – with one fell stroke of an adapter’s arbitrariness, Mr. Kelly altered the play’s ending in a way that crudely shrinks and simplifies its intentions.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2010
He believed they were not far from Lake Ontario, and he had no doubt that Montcalm had prepared some fell stroke.
From The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
Something worse than eating with his knife must ostracize a man, and something no greater than spitting on the sidewalk should accomplish the feat at one fell stroke.
From Etiquette by Morton, Agnes H.
See all the artifice of civilisation swept away at one fell stroke, and behold your gentleman, transformed in an instant into a beast, with all a beast's primeval qualities.
From A Spinner in the Sun by Reed, Myrtle
In short, he had formed the stupendous ambition of becoming, at one fell stroke, a renowned ethnologist!
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
