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
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
By one fell stroke there was no longer either end in sight nor visible means of reaching it.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival
It was not in the way of things that he, who had always had everything, should at one fell stroke be left desolate.
From Old Rose and Silver by Reed, Myrtle
Now, at one fell stroke, his villainy lay exposed.
From Five Thousand Dollars Reward by Pinkerton, A. Frank [pseud.]
