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Definition of Counterthrust
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterthrust
Literary usage of Counterthrust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly (1921)
"The Lombard churches never met the vault thrust with counterthrust of buttress.
Surely not in Lombardy was conceived the new system of construction? ..."
2. Night Combat by Alfred Toppe (1998)
"A counterthrust against the enemy's vulnerable flank is usually preferable to a
frontal attack. In the event that local reserves are incapable of ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"An amusing national counterthrust to " The Unspeakable Scot." mail IN PICCADILLY.
By BENJAMIN SWIFT, tamo. ntt$i.oo (By mail $1.10). " Very, very smart. ..."
4. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"High, high and sure . . . and then the counterthrust: "Why do you love me ?
Will you always love me ? But I am like the grass, I can not love you. ..."
5. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"Believing we should meet with lips and hands. High, high and sure . . . and then
the counterthrust: "Why do you love me? ..."
6. My Life and Work by Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1922)
"... will not be enough of the thrust and counterthrust which is life—enough of
the competition which means effort and progress. ..."
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