Crossword-Solution: MASTERSTROKE 12 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Nuncomar’s services were wanted; yet he could not safely be trusted with power; and Hastings thought it a masterstroke of policy to reward the able and unprincipled parent by promoting the inoffensive child.

Thus, after the assaults of four hundred and fifty years, taxation, the first of fiscal instrumentalities, the most burdensome of all, leaves feudal property almost intact.[1217]--For the last century, two new tools, the capitation-tax and the vingtièmes, appear more effective, and yet are but little more so.--First of all, through a masterstroke of ecclesiastical diplomacy, the clergy diverts or weakens the blow.

Having thus thrown dust in the eyes of the Board, Thomas Hardie and Richard consulted with a notoriously unscrupulous madhouse keeper in the suburbs of London, and effected a masterstroke; whereof anon.

SURSUM CORDA!--_Cheer up, loving heart!”_ shouted he, like the roar of a lion in ecstasies; “you have done a masterstroke--without Oldfield, or Rolfe, or any other man.” Lady Bassett clasped her hands with joy, and some electric fire seemed to run through her veins; for she was all sensibilities, and this sudden triumphant roaring out of strong words was quite new to her, and carried her away.

All the defeats and mortifications he had endured from Huntercombe returned to his mind; and now, with one masterstroke he would balance them all.