Definition of Thunderstroke

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thunderstroke

thunders
thundershower
thundershowers
thundersnow
thunderstick
thundersticks
thunderstone
thunderstones
thunderstorm
thunderstorms
thunderstormy
thunderstricken
thunderstrike
thunderstrikes
thunderstriking
thunderstroke (current term)
thunderstrokes
thunderstruck
thunderworm
thunderworms
thundery
thundrous
thunk
thunked
thunking
thunks
thunnies
thunny
thurgh
thurghfare

Literary usage of Thunderstroke

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Drama of Three Hundred & Sixty-five Days: Scenes in the Great War by Hall Caine (1915)
"THE thunderstroke OF FATE SUDDENLY one of the little company remembers something which everybody has hitherto forgotten—the difference of an hour between ..."

2. Meteorological Essays by François Arago, Alexander von Humboldt, Edward Sabine (1855)
"Imagine the thunderstroke which melted a particular metallic bar to be ... Let the thunderstroke be weakened a degree further, and the bar will only undergo ..."

3. The Soul of the Russian Revolution by Moissaye Joseph Olgin (1917)
"The thunderstroke has come, calamity faces us, and we prove to be helpless, pitiful and poor." It is worth noting, this confession of a well-informed ..."

4. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1916)
"I took him to be killed with a thunderstroke. But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art not drowned. Is the storm overblown ? ..."

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