counterstroke
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2ADJ.
enough, likely, swift
PREP.
with
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noun
A blow given in return.
He met him with a counterstroke so swift, / That quite smit off his arme as he it up did lift.
A retaliation.
The declaration of the Allied Governments that they will not conclude peace separately during the war or demand terms of peace without previous agreement with each other is an opportune counterstroke to the campaign initiated by Germany for the purpose of detaching France from Russia and especially from Britain.
She could understand how a man like Monohan would hate a man like Jack Fyfe, would nurse and feed on the venom of his hate until setting a torch to Fyfe's timber would be a likely enough counterstroke.
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3He met him with a counterstroke so swift, / That quite smit off his arme as he it up did lift.
WiktionaryThe declaration of the Allied Governments that they will not conclude peace separately during the war or demand terms of peace without previous agreement with each other is an opportune counterstroke
WiktionaryShe could understand how a man like Monohan would hate a man like Jack Fyfe, would nurse and feed on the venom of his hate until setting a torch to Fyfe's timber would be a likely enough counterstroke
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