..., stroke, blow, clang, clank; á —s, by (or with) blows...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...The trunks had been severed a little distance from the ground with a clean and glistening stroke, as though with a single blow of the axe...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Alvar only received one good stroke, for hemanaged to escape through the crowd as soon as he felt thepeasant's stick on his back...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...He was eager to be the guide, the mentor, themanager of a bull-fighter, but all the maestros had their own and sothe advent of Gallardo was a stroke of fortune for him...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
... This was a disarming stroke...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... With the last stroke of the clock, the last ray of light seemed to fade away; and with the last ray faded her final hope...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
... I knew that my strength was not farfrom breaking-point; but I knew also that so long as a chance was leftme I should have enough for a stroke...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...On the stroke of eight a gentleman, well-horsed but entirely unattended, rode up the carriage drive...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...He did not see the meaning of this stroke, and his eye, traveling up the street, showed that his thoughts had turned towards flight...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...This was a terrible stroke to him, and, now convinced that Ali intended to detain him for ever in captivity, or perhaps to take his life, he determined at all risks to attempt making his escape...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
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