successful stroke
Example Sentences
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He had perhaps made some very successful stroke in his affairs during the three days he had spent in Naples.
From Don Orsino by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
I may successively bend all my energies upon the winning of a game, the doing of a successful stroke of business, the defeat of a social rival, the success of a philanthropic undertaking.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by Fullerton, George Stuart
The successful stroke made in September at Copenhagen filled the Czar with solicitude; for, like his ally, he had hoped to gain time, and such promptness in imitating Napoleon's contempt for neutral rights dismayed him.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
"And what successful stroke of business have you concluded?"
From Eastern Shame Girl by Souli, Charles Georges
Haig's successful stroke was delivered on a front of nearly two miles south of the Ypres-Roulers railway.
