26 Metaphors for strokes

It would have been hard to tell whether the short, sharp strokes were blows or caresses, and they ceased almost as abruptly as they had begun.

I do not think the game lasted long, and I have only a very faint recollection of it; but I remember thinking Miss Martin's strokes were the finest I had ever seen.

The two clear silvery strokes were a summons for Halcott, the maid, who appeared immediately.

Knowing that one stroke of the bear's paw would be certain death to his poor dog, Dick leaped from his perch, and with one bound reached the ground at the same moment with the struggling animals, and close beside them, and, before they had ceased rolling, he placed the muzzle of his rifle into the bear's ear, and blew out its brains.

What flesh, like loving grass, would not covet to meet half-way the stroke of such a delicate mower?John Palmer was twice an actor in this exquisite part.

But least the feare of death appall my mind, Sweet gentlemen, let me this fauour find, That you wil vale mine eyesight with this scarfe; That, when the fatall stroke is aymde at me, I may not start but suffer patiently.

The long, well-timed stroke becomes a mere mechanical effort, leaving the mind at liberty to enjoy the sense of freedom, the tonic salt-breeze, and the enlivening scenes of the sea.

His greatest stroke was the storming of Stony Point, where in person he led the midnight rush of his troops over the walls of the British fort.

A bold stroke this, and rather a surprise to the diplomats, who marvelled that the Chineseinjuring parties as they wereshould have the couragelet us call it so, for there was truly much admirable bravery in itto take the first step.

In some engines, however, the stroke of the valve is a good deal more than twice the breadth of the port; and it is to the stroke of the valve that the amount of lap should properly be referred.

The third stroke on that day was the arrest of Mr. Robinson who had been staying at The Grove as a lodger.

In the coal regions of Pennsylvania, a simple, high pressure, single acting Bull engine has been extensively adopted; the dimensions usually run from 36 inches to 80 inches in diameter, and a very common stroke is 10 feet.

The greatest stroke of genius in the book, however, is the masterly portrayal of the artful, scheming Becky Sharp, who alternately commands respect for her shrewdness and repels by her moral depravity.

It was a work begun long ago; the first stroke was that August night; it is nearly nineteen years ago.

The first and foremost stroke to be learnt is The Fore-hand Drive.

But the proportions are here so different from anything used in steam engines (the stroke being four times the length of the crank), that this particular arrangement can hardly be considered as what is ordinarily understood by a "crank and connecting rod movement," such as is shown in Fig.

This stroke was the coup de grâce of Maupertuis.

The double acting water plunger was 14 inches in diameter, and worked directly from the high pressure piston rod; the stroke of pistons and plunger being 25 inches.

But the great Frenchman's master-stroke was his treaty with Gustavus Adolphus.

A dagger-stroke were blest release indeed; But no! it may not be!

Such a stroke is to the English mind a blot, and it is no uncommon thing, after each side has had a good rally, to see the battitore put every ball into the net in this way and so win the game without his opponents having one return; which is the very negation of sport.

A.The common stroke of the valve in rotative engines is twice the breadth or depth of the port, and the length of the valve face will then be just the breadth of the port when there is lap on neither the steam nor eduction side.

That Chapel-bell in mercy seemed to guide me, But now it mocks my steps; its fitful stroke Can scarcely be the work of human hands.

Probably its master-stroke is the creation of the national judiciary.

It was limited to general satire, which was sometimes carried so far, that the malignity was overlooked in an attention to the wild exaggeration, the unexpected strokes, the pungent wit, and the malignity concealed under such wild flights as became the character of harlequin.

26 Metaphors for  strokes