" The effect of this masterstroke was that the lady gave her a copper and let her go, wishing her a speedy recovery.

OLIVER, a favourite paladin of Charlemagne's, who, along with Roland, rode by his side, and whose name, along with Roland's, has passed into the phrase, a "Roland for an Oliver," meaning one good masterstroke for another, such as both these knights never failed to deliver.

On the contrary, he believed it to be a masterstroke of cunning.

This was a masterstroke of policy, as the natives well knew that it would take two of us to bear off our prize to the boat, thus rendering our little party less formidable. (*Footnote.