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Definition of Thunderingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thunderingly
Literary usage of Thunderingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Literature by Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin (1922)
"... clattering thunderingly, the man anxious, the little girl frightened, and all
who see them alarmed even more because they think they are seeing ghosts. ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"... dangling his own life from the slightest skein of chance, galloped thunderingly
back, under a swiftly concentrated shower .of arrows, lead and spears, ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"This thunderingly successful song which has almost reached its second edition,
is now published in fifteen keys :— "Ah ! the smashing of every window-pane ..."
4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"asked Mr. Smith, a little thunderingly. ' I mayn't be known much yet in England;
but I 'II tell you, you inquire the route to Mr. Van Diemen Smith over ..."
5. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"... and he accordingly broke into a thundering peal of laughter after he had thus
thunderingly stated his frustrated intention to commit arson. ..."
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