finishing stroke

Still he lingered, but perhaps the bleeding was really the finishing stroke.

This last touch was the finishing stroke to the excited paladin.

The long day might have worn him out, but the surfing lesson was the finishing stroke.

This was a finishing stroke to poor Good.

System 3 took over the 85% completed game and after the finishing strokes, it was released without listing the Hungarian team.

The gallant little cow had nearly killed him, and was giving him the finishing strokes.

Now our time and turn is come, and perhaps the finishing stroke is reserved for us.

Amid glowing candles, Roland put the finishing strokes to the canvas before him.

But the poor, anxious wife thought only of a parting which to her put a finishing stroke to all her misfortunes.

His finishing stroke of evil is a startling one, even by these books' standards of deviant behavior.

He had for some time been longing for the honor of being ruined by her in order to put the finishing stroke on his smartness.

Why, in a city on the brink, are youngsters at risk practicing the finishing strokes of one of the world's most exclusionary and expensive games?

He had to deliver his second and finishing stroke to Desgo's army before the enemy recovered enough to realize what was about to happen to them.

Domingo's probing dissection had provided a finishing stroke.

For then his brother's bow must have given the finishing stroke to what the ill-humour of his mother and sister would have begun.

The Finishing Stroke is a novel that was published in 1958 by Ellery Queen.

There a cadaverous looter knelt over his prostrate victim, holding knife to throat to deliver the finishing stroke.

This corroboration of the lesson he had just received put the finishing stroke to the wonder and stupefaction of M. Baptistin.

"The Finishing Stroke," by Ellery Queen.

[Footnote: Coup de grace: the decisive, finishing stroke.]

Less common differences include a descender on the z and a ball on the finishing stroke of an h, which curves back to resemble a b somewhat.

It is characterized by lines that are almost uniform in thickness and by serifs, or finishing strokes, that are small and blunt.

Anne, who was putting the finishing strokes to her hair, watched the way she licked her lips repeatedly and heard the anxiety in her constricted sighs.

But before Conan could deal the finishing stroke, the two chiefs, gasping but murderous, came at him with swords in their hands, croaking for their men.

A few moments later the old priest and Lord Shigeru stepped into the hall, where I was putting the finishing strokes to the copy of the horse.