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
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 Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
From the time the falling cornice of snow had tossed up in a puff of smoke ten miles away to the fell stroke of the titanic leveller of the ages—not ten seconds had passed.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 Percival Lowell
Now, at one fell stroke, his villainy lay exposed.
From Five Thousand Dollars Reward by A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton
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