A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.

-Frankenthaler, Helen
  Quoted in Ian Crofton (ed)  A Dictionary of  Art Quotations (1988).

This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.

-Hearst,William Randolph
  Statement on proposed tax cuts and a price freeze by nationalized industries,16  Jun. These words were contained in a press release, and were never actually spoken by Heath.

The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  More Poems, no.11.

I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
^81  His tribute to the recently deceased actor David Garrick. Lives of the English Poets,'Edmund Smith'.