counterblow

Historical Examples

• It now became necessary for the older body to deal a counterblow.

  Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas

  W. J. Henderson

• The French retaliated with a counterblow that drove the enemy back (p. 293) in disorder.

  The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII)

  Various

• The orders were to carry the city at all costs, a counterblow to compensate the Germans for their failure to capture Compigne.

  The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII)

  Various

• Counterblow had followed blow, swift as the clash of rapiers in a duel of fencers.

  The Astronomy of the Bible

  E. Walter Maunder

• In the counterblow the edge of Cheever's cuff caught on Dyckman's knuckles and ripped the skin.

  We Can't Have Everything

  Rupert Hughes