Again, a long hand, shoving forward, planted a hard stroke with a reversed automatic.

Then he grunted aloud and scratched it out with two hard strokes of the pencil.

Three hard strokes, and Patience was free to run.

He came up, spinning, in time to parry a hard stroke from his remaining opponent.

She crouched low, reaching for speed, her legs pushing out in long hard strokes.

It was a hard stroke to the band, which started recording their new album the day after.

"Go up again," he demanded and began to destroy her with long, hard strokes.

But she'd lost it somewhere between the question and the hard, fast stroke of her own heart.

So poor was the footing that a hard stroke with a gun tumbled the man who gave it, whenever he missed his mark.

The Shadow smashed the padlock with a hard stroke of the gun handle.