by-stroke
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2VERB + BY-STROKE
frustrated
BY-STROKE + NOUN
commissioners
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noun
An incidental or slyly given stroke; a gratuitous addition or indirect action.
But we do not suppose the House of Commons will quite surrender its authority to them on a point of such importance, or allow its intentions to be frustrated by a by-stroke of the Commissioners, without further inquiry.
The text before us furnishes an example of the manner in which he is wont to convey this doctrine to the minds of his people, even where he is not immediately employed on it—by a by-stroke, as it were .
A secondary attack.
The carriage of Lord Wilsdown rattled swiftly up to the door of Prince de Rosenberg's house in Park-lane, and the footman springing nimbly to the ground, produced a roll of thunder from the knocker, that would have done credit to a by-stroke of the cloud compelling Zeus .
On his way he could not resist the temptation of dealing a by-stroke at the Petchenegans.
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3But we do not suppose the House of Commons will quite surrender its authority to them on a point of such importance, or allow its intentions to be frustrated by a by-stroke of the Commissioners, witho
WiktionaryThe text before us furnishes an example of the manner in which he is wont to convey this doctrine to the minds of his people, even where he is not immediately employed on it—by a by-stroke, as it were
WiktionaryStill, in doing this, he has not unfrequently found himself, as it were, wielding the sword in one hand, while grasping the trowel in the other—though strengthening his own position, and making that h
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