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Counterblow

noun
1.
A return blow; a retaliatory blow.






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"Counterblow" Quotes from Famous Books



... rather than audible words, blushing confessions of our most secret inward repinings, joyful exclamations of surprise at discovering in us both the same impressions reflected from one another, as light in reverberations, the blow in the counterblow, the form in the image. We would exclaim, rising by a simultaneous impulse, "We are not two; we are one single being under two illusive natures! Which will say you unto the other; which will say I? There is no I; there is no you; but only we." ... We would then sink down, overcome with admiration ...
— Raphael - Pages Of The Book Of Life At Twenty • Alphonse de Lamartine



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