Stroke example sentences

Grandfather stroked the tiger's forehead and tickled his ears, and, whenever he growled, smacked him across the mouth, which was his old way of keeping him quiet.He stroked its sides as gently as though the fawn were a china deer and he might break it.For a while she said nothing, but stroked the letter tenderly with her fingertips.It seemed almost as if the poor man wanted to give us all he knew before going away, and to put it all into our heads at one stroke.I swam the crawl, breast stroke, side stroke, and back stroke.At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.Grandfather stroked the tiger's forehead and tickled his ears, and, whenever he growled, smacked him across the mouth, which was his old way of keeping him quiet.He came back to it and stroked it and walked away again.''Those are the hammer strokes from an iron mill'', he thought.Corporate Defense Strategies (CDS) of Maywood, New Jersey, advised the firm to install a software program that could secretly log every single stroke of the suspects' computer keys and send an encrypted e-mail report to CDS.Well, said the Horse, there s a thing in the middle of your Desert with a long neck and long legs, and he hasn t done a stroke of work since Monday morning.Finally let us turn to Jawaharlal Nehru giving his famous speech to the Constituent Assembly at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 194 Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.Dive off and swim the length of the pool, crawl stroke.