It happened, however, that it gave him his first real opportunity to prepare for a deliberate stroke.

He paddled with slow, deliberate strokes.

With deliberate strokes Peter filled the pit in, putting paid to a past that was truly past, as irretrievable as an infant's first breath.

His tongue pushed past her lips, pumping into her mouth with slow, deliberate strokes, teasing hers, making her groan in hungry need as her arms came around his shoulders.

When the last man took his place, however, Goldmoon turned her gaze to the historian seated on the platform behind her father, writing on a parchment with deliberate strokes.

Her hands hit the keys with deliberate strokes.

Jonathan was still working at me with deliberate but uninspired strokes, a frown on his face like that of a schoolboy trying to solve some impossible equation.

Sitting down with his back toward her, Austin began washing his shoulder with long, deliberate strokes of his tongue.

Death sat on the cairn and ran a stone down the blade of his scythe in long, deliberate strokes.

Painted with iron dust instead of pigment, the squares are subtly toned and textured, partly by the random oxidation process and partly by the deliberate strokes that underlie the surface.