With purple of too rich a red: Thy crime is too much duty; Thy burthen, too much beauty; Glorious or greiuous more?
But these vast mysteries his senses smother, And reason (for what's faith to him?
Have mercy then, and when he next shall rise 35 O meet the angry God, invade his eyes, And stroake his radiant cheekes; one timely kisse Will kill his anger, and revive my blisse.
My reverend father pacifie yourselfe; I can, and will, indure the stroake of death, Were his appearance nere so horrible, To meete Pertillo in another world.
It will not be, retyre into your Trenches: You all consented vnto Salisburies death, For none would strike a stroake in his reuenge.
More welcome is thestroake of death to me, Then Bullingbrooke to England Greene.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stroake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
