Australian crawl or butterfly, to a swimmer

Usage examples of stroke.

This pleased rupert but then he had found out she was renting a small bedsit in Vauxhall, rammed to the ceiling with pottery turtles, leatherette footstools and flowery, applique table mats, where she would sneak off as if visiting a lover and would sit for hours, rocking backwards and forwards stroking a ceramic clown amidst a mountain of knick-knacks.

Nowe hauing in some sorte spoken of the right vse of architecturie, and the direct waye and meanes by order and rule, to finde out, the set downe deuise, and solyde bodye or grounde of the woorke, with facilitie that beeing found out, the architector may vse sundrye deuisions in diuerse perfections, not vnlike vnto a cunning Musition, who hauing deuised his plaine grounde in right measure, with full strokes, afterwarde wyll proportion the same into deuisions, by cromatycall and delyghtfull minims crotchets, and quauers, curiously reporting vpon his plaine song.

The Christians applauded, in lofty and ambiguous strains, the stroke of divine vengeance, which had been so long suspended over the guilty head of Julian.

It had been a pure stroke of luck, being offered his position here at the High Energy Astrophysics Center.

Instead of stroking his ego about a bardship, it offered a blunt assessment: Give it up and accept being a voyageur.

With fearful strokes of its talons it was tearing the basto to shreds.

It was Guzman Bento who died, not by the knife thrust of a conspirator, but from a stroke of apoplexy, and Dr.

A feeling of weariness stopped him, a kind of torpor benumbed him for long minutes, during which he did not give a single stroke with the brush.

But the walls of the city withstood the strokes of their battering-rams: and the besiegers pitched their tents on the neighboring mountain of Jaushan.

As she leaned against Blad, she allowed her hand to stroke a sensitive area of his body, unseen by the king.

General Blitzkrieg had hit something over a hundred balls, but by incredibly selective scorekeeping, had managed to put only forty-two strokes down on his scorecard.

He continued stroking Bounder, but it was Mackenzie he watched, Mackenzie he wanted to touch.

There, too, were a number of the lords, each with a band of brilliantly attired attendants, and prominent among them was Nasta, stroking his black beard meditatively and looking unusually pleasant.

Lorraine knelt beside Brit and began stroking his forehead softly, as is the soothing way of women with their sick.

He stroked his immense nose with the pipe for a moment, burnishing the dark brown bowl.