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

This fell on the province with the power and rapidity of a thunderstroke; it made no cry, no movement; Bretagne expired.

From The Regent's Daughter by Dumas père, Alexandre

My father was then in the zenith of his prosperity, and was absorbed in his affairs; yet this loss—this heavy blow—came upon him like a thunderstroke.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various

Every word was a thunderstroke to his heart.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

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