thunderstroke

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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

To her hearer the final phrase was like a thunderstroke.

From Demos by Gissing, George

This was a thunderstroke to the unfortunate cavalier.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick

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

The world seems to be on tiptoe, listening for a thunderstroke of Fate.

From The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War by Caine, Hall, Sir