strokes

• Each of his strokes was a revelation and, though I learned much in a short time, it was clear that I was destined to be no Manoni or Petrinius and I felt, as I often had before, that hours were misspent I was pleased, therefore, when Astolfo informed me we were to pay another call upon Maxinnio and that I should prepare to answer certain questions that might be put to me. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 03 - March 2007 (v1.0)
• Duerer affected extremely curved and rapid strokes, Mantegna the deliberate straight line, Rembrandt the straight stroke used so as to seem a continual improvisation; though indeed he varies the character of his touch more continually and more vastly than any other master, yet in his drawings and etchings the majority of the strokes are straight. —  Albert Durer
• It is short: it is not “worked up”: in a few strokes, brief and telling as Donner's own hammer-strokes, the whole thing is done. —  Richard Wagner
• Ballistae bolts and sword strokes are too clumsy, though. —  J
• A stone dropped into one of them reverberated against the sides for apparently a very great depth, and, by its sound, indicated the same kind of substance with the surface, as long as the strokes could be heard. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville

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