His doctors believed a clot traveled through that hole to cause the first stroke.
The discovery, I thought, was the first stroke of good luck in our seven months in captivity.
Instead of choosing where on his canvas to place the first stroke, Robertson simply drops the brush.
Debbie Pianin helped him adjust after the first stroke and was so charmed, she stayed three years.
She worked for the government in a variety of jobs, but retired "at the first stroke I could".
The first stroke of what will either be a 63 or an 83 is bombed down the middle of the track.
He began to peel it for me, but at the first stroke of the knife the blade separated from its handle.
But will we lose that glorious old feeling when the first stroke of the conductor's baton said "Enter a different world"?
After the first stroke, the dart leader may follow the lightning channel only partway before taking a new path to the ground.
The first stroke, Mr. Evans said, occurred as he was raising a glass to toast the horror master Wes Craven over dinner in the Woodland Drive house.
On the first stroke of Big Ben at 11am, a shot fired from a first world war gun at nearby Horse Guards Parade signalled the start of the two-minute silence.
