thunderstroke

Example Sentences

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"It is one of the mysteries of nature," he said in 1906, after his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis at 24, "that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live."

From Time Magazine Archive

Elijah thought, that, if Jackson had not been killed by his own men after delivering that thunderstroke, Hooker would have been annihilated.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

And he whirled his club aloft more threateningly than ever, as if he were about to smite them with a thunderstroke right amidships, because Athens, so little while ago, had been at war with Crete.

From Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

To her hearer the final phrase was like a thunderstroke.

From Demos by Gissing, George

These words fell upon Charlotte like a thunderstroke: she rose from her seat half-fainting, and unconscious of what she did.

From The Sorrows of Young Werther by Boylan, R. Dillon