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Suffice to say there was a moment, call it the thunderbolt, the coup de foudre or whatever, where we both realised, blah blah blah.
For the ancient Greeks and Romans, after a thunderbolt struck on the ground, mushrooms such as boleti, puffballs, and tubers arose from it.
Buzzell was a lost soul, waiting for a thunderbolt to blast him out of his dead-end existence.
The thunderbolt was created with the help of Brother R.B.B., and formed from two glass chandelier lustres.
In 37 minutes a short free kick was played into the path of Jack Ross whose 20-yard thunderbolt left Stuart Taylor seeing stars.
Crickets hum their night song, trees sway to strong winds and an occasional thunderbolt lights up the dark sky.
The Cyclopes gave Zeus the thunderbolt and Hades a helmet, gave Poseidon his trident.
Zeus used a thunderbolt to stop the rampage and the horses plunged into the sea.
Another resounding crash followed a thunderbolt striking the other arm of the statue.
While holding siege to the city of Thebes, Jupiter threw a thunderbolt at Capaneus who did not fall, but died standing up.
The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
The words hit Michael like a thunderbolt and he slams the phone down, trying to think about what he should do next.
The idea that we should not be worrying about terrorism I think has to strike as something of a thunderbolt to many people.
Blair was at 35,000 feet, en route to Tokyo, when news of the scientist's suicide reached him like a thunderbolt on Friday morning.
This will come as a thunderbolt to all the campaigners who have fought for the retention of services in Down.
The feelings of concern for your own children is overwhelming, and hits you like a thunderbolt.
September 17, 1999 was the day the Supreme Court's Marshall Decision struck the region's coastal communities like a thunderbolt.
Her murder is a political thunderbolt that, if correctly harnessed, could single-handedly save the pro-euro cause.
Hogan exposed some poor Roscommon defending before unleashing a thunderbolt of a shot, which flew past Martin and almost burst the net.
Well, there's no arguing with Rooney when he scores a thunderbolt, is there?
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Examples from Classical Literature
In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
And heading his prowest knights, William came, as a thunderbolt, on the bills and shields.
Not an ear has heard the riving thunderbolt, nor so much as an eyelid trembled on the still eyes for all the lightning's fury.
The forger of such a thunderbolt could not remain hid from the eyes of Europe.
Above are two eagles in high relief, with the thunderbolt of Jupiter in their talons.
Like a thunderbolt it struck among those slender bridges, the spiderweb of icy strands that spanned the shaft.
For this is the thunderbolt with which they fright those whom they are resolved not to favor.
The thunderstone, or thunderbolt, was supposed to have no power of harming any one who was asleep, or who wore laurel leaves.
Meanwhile, at merv, Mamun was adopting a decision which fell like a thunderbolt on the Abbasids.
Each Montagnard is a Jupiter in his own conceit, and hurls his thunderbolt with what force he may.
The classical keraunos is still preserved in Tibet as the dorje, which is identified with Indra's thunderbolt, the vajra.
Franklin, the philosopher of the thunderbolt, the printing-press, and the plowshare.
All things considered, he resolved to face the bovine thunderbolt with unflinching front, like a true-blue British tar!
In the midst of connubial and communal peace the thunderbolt has fallen on the King.
I knew that face, and my heart was rifted as if by a thunderbolt.
Winter had been long months in riveting them, and not in a day were they to be broken, not even by the thunderbolt of spring.
Dear oak-tree, you are riven by the storm-king's thunderbolt!
The thunderbolt had fallen, and now, O God, what should he do?
Then there came a thunderbolt out of a blue sky, a wholly unforeseen disaster.
A thunderbolt had fallen at Mychowski's feet and he was affrighted.
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