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What may strike some as a naive grab for mainstream acceptance is in fact a stroke of genius.
Always behind, the hosts converted a last-minute penalty stroke against a rejuvenated India team.
Each paddle stroke inches you further upstream towards the Abenaki encampment that should lie perhaps a league ahead.
After he had his stroke, the doctor suggested he should do some exercise, walking or even a bit of gentle cycling.
The pulled out the drawings for the palace and scrutinized every pencil stroke.
One of Bollettieri's coaches agreed to take her on court and with her first stroke she knocked his hat off.
It was just on the stroke of half time that an incident occurred that would change the course of the game.
Slavery and feudalism were in the end abolished, with a stroke of the pen followed if necessary by a stroke of the sword.
The world number eight dropped a stroke at the par-four ninth when his drive ended beside a tree down the left side of the fairway.
Both aspirin and warfarin reduce the risk of blood clots that can cause stroke.
Should she be treated with aspirin or warfarin to reduce her risk of stroke?
They said the dog had died from heat stroke or exhaustion or whatever it is that happens to dogs when they burn up.
The hands and putter head need to work as one unit for the stroke to be effective.
Of the first letter, all that survives is the freestanding end of a diagonal stroke in the bottom right corner of the letter space.
The major medical causes of karoshi deaths are heart attack and stroke due to stress.
Once in a while a tennis match will reach its climax with both players convinced they are going to win until the last stroke of the last rally.
The scorching backfoot cover-drive and the pick-up stroke on the on-side have fetched him runs in plenty.
Franklin would pump the treadle, wet his fingers, and stroke the rims of the bowls, almost as if playing notes on the piano.
Patients were observed until they were admitted to hospital with a stroke, stopped taking their antipsychotic, died, or the study ended.
Kirchoff capped a fine game by converting a penalty stroke with two field goals completing the scoring.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But he was equal to the emergency, and, to make the disguise perfect, he gave to his writing the left hand or backhand stroke.
An amphetamine injection creates a sudden increase in blood pressure that can result in stroke, very high fever, or heart failure.
Mr. Burgwyn was suffering from an apoplectic stroke, and was lying insensible.
By another stroke he converted the oligarchy of Byzantium into a democracy.
This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.
Fido knew that, for there were caresses in every stroke of the dimpled hands.
The acciaccatura is written like the appoggiatura except that it has a light stroke across its stem.
To curl feathers, heat slightly before a fire, then stroke with something like the back of a case knife.
The C clef is on that line which has an oblique or straight stroke, or pot-hook, above and below.
The heavy ax whistled through the air in a single mighty stroke that cleft the centaurian's frail body nearly in two.
Then forthwithal Gareth rushed upon Sir Launcelot, and gave him a great stroke upon his helm so hard that he was astonied.
I could not swim a stroke, and it crossed my mind to get one of the sweeps to keep me afloat.
Before the words were out we could hear the dull stroke of the picks sinking into the cleated doors.
I made another stroke, and felt my hand pass down the side of an object that I knew at once was a clincher-built boat.
Then reaction proudly asserted itself, and accomplished a counter-revolutionary stroke.
Boys filed in from one coatroom, girls from another, at the stroke of nine on the following Monday morning.
And therewithal Sir Tristram strode unto him and took his lady from him, and with an awk stroke he smote off her head clean.
There she is welcomed by her numerous kinswomen, who stroke and lick her amorously, and bestow on her a maternal kiss.
We shall at least use the compliment of Conan, who never got a stroke but he gave one.
As for myself, I clove the leader through the skull with one stroke.
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