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
Here was all the solid foundation knocked from under him at one fell stroke, as if by a cannon.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
James had been so well-behaved that morning it was only logical for her to anticipate that he was about to abolish at one fell stroke all his hard-earned merits.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
Not even physicians were spared; and those who escaped trembled in anticipation of the fell stroke.
From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
In another severe storm all the reindeer got away; and, of course, a valuable supply of fresh meat, besides transport, was cut off at one fell stroke.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles
