Read full poem →To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
Dictionary Entry
The plural of stroke, referring to movements, actions, or sudden medical events like a brain hemorrhage.
In a Sentence
“The swimmer practiced her strokes for hours, aiming to improve her speed and endurance in the water.”
Origin
Old English 'stroc' meaning a push or blow, related to 'strican' meaning to stroke or pass over.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “strokes”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
Read full poem →There's four men mowing down by the river;
I can hear the sound of the scythe strokes, four
Sharp breaths swishing:--yea, but I
Read full poem →but is still hid in clouds and darkness to France and Italy. A light to. which the brightest
strokes of Milton and Shakespeare are hut as rays of the iiiid-day sun, when compared to that
ineffable inconceivable lustre which surrounds the throne of God. When the zeal of religion
Read full poem →E STILL, heart, cease those measured
B strokes ;
Lie quiet in your hollow bed;
Read full poem →"_Garde National épique_," and Lamartine "_Lacrymatoire d'abonnés_." It
is not Tailhade drawing with rough strokes the people he sees daily in
Paris, and bursting with guffaws over the Japanese in their
Read full poem →Ther rede I wel he wol be lord and syre,
I dar not seyn, his strokes been so sore,
But God save swich a lord! I can no more.
Read full poem →And side with thy triumphant glory?
Shall thy strokes be my stroking? thorns, my flower?
Thy rod, my posy? cross, my bower?
Read full poem →To-day the sky is two and two
With white strokes and strains of the blue
. . . . . . .
Read full poem →There's four men mowing down by the river;
I can hear the sound of the scythe strokes, four
Sharp breaths swishing:--yea, but I