History of the Indies (1561)
Yagyū Munenori (1571–1646) samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period
A Hereditary Book on the Art of War (1632)
Context: A stroke of the sword that does not hit its target is the sword stroke of death; you reach over it to strike the winning blow. Your adversary's initiative having missed its mark, you turn the tables around and get the jump on your adversary.
“The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.”
Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 8 (Gunter Brus Werkumkreisung,op.cit, p. 128.)
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
“November: Axe-in-Hand”, p. 68.
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "November: Axe-in-Hand," "November: A Mighty Fortress," and "December: Pines above the Snow"
Context: I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.
“The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.”
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
As quoted in Stories Behind the Hymns That Inspire America: Songs That Unite Our Nation (2003) by Ace Collins, p. 36.
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“Freud to Paul: The Stages of Auden’s Ideology”, p. 155
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
Robert Hall (1764–1831) British Baptist pastor
On Kippis; Gregory’s Life of Hall, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“One stroke of his almighty rod
Shall send young sinners quick to hell.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 13: "The Danger of Delay".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy.”
Jimmy Magee (1935–2017) Gaelic games commentatot
During the FIFA World Cup. herald.ie http://www.herald.ie/news/irelands-other-big-games-winner-jimmy-magee-3196108.html <br class="br">FIFA World Cup
