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I see them in my dreams — his blade gives stroke on stroke,
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From an angry tail refuse not to abide the sinewy stroke,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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From an angry tail refuse not to abide the sinewy stroke,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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To my surprise, I heard a noise that gsve me a fatal stroke,
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It's been seventeen years since we pulled that stroke,
Talking Ampol Sarel 1979
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And the foe, driven before us desperately -- stroke upon stroke,
Lundy's Lane and Other Poems Duncan Campbell Scott
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From an angry tail refuse not to abide the sinewy stroke,
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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And the great Lord of Luna fell at that deadly stroke,
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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But, whan throwne downe by mightie thunder stroke,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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And smites the earth; earth trembles at the stroke,
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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