fell stroke
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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
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
By one fell stroke he was put in second place, a man who had to await the return of Palmer—and that in his own church, so to speak.
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
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 Myrtle Reed
Nothing but the red mark on the doorway of the dwelling would be of any avail in warding off the fell stroke.
From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
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