Lexicographical Neighbors of Thunderstrokes
Literary usage of Thunderstrokes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"... even though they ran the military risk of exposing themselves to one of
Napoleon's thunderstrokes. They moved in two columns, one under Blücher and ..."
2. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"The lips, the acts, the soul, may be bought, not the heart; and the heart beats
with thunderstrokes that cannot be repressed against the base, the cruel, ..."
3. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"The lips, the acts, the soul, may be bought, not the heart; and the heart beats
with thunderstrokes that cannot be repressed against the base, the cruel, ..."
4. The History of the Jews, from the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times by Henry Hart Milman (1864)
"... facility of these great poets ; — Zunz indeed complains that of one passage
no European language can render the thunderstrokes of the continuous rhymes, ..."
5. The History of the Jews, from the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times by Henry Hart Milman (1870)
"... language can render the thunderstrokes of the continuous rhymes, that the
lightning of its beauty is quenched in the dull auxiliaries and pronouns. ..."
6. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1903)
"... i : i ; Acts 20 : 28 ; Titus i : 5-7- " What can your common man say to these
three heavenly thunderstrokes [referring to the passages of Scripture] ? ..."
7. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1903)
"... i : i ; Acts 20 : 28; Titus i : 5-7' " What can your common man say to these
three heavenly thunderstrokes [referring to the passages of Scripture] ? ..."
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