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

He had had, up to this hour, in the sky within him, a rain of scruples, a tempest of doubts, a thunderstroke of lust; now was silence and death.

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

It had been almost silent along the lines when the enemy's batteries opened fire with one enormous thunderstroke, which was followed by continuous salvos.

From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip

To her hearer the final phrase was like a thunderstroke.

From Demos by Gissing, George

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