Thunderbolt
['θʌndəbəʊlt] or ['θʌndɚbolt]
Definition
(n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.
(n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
(n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
(n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
Typed by Leona
Examples
- See you not the thunderbolt fall, and are deafened by the shout of heaven that follows its descent? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- If a thunderbolt had fallen on me,' said the father, 'it would have shocked me less than this! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- To know that Marianne was in town wasin the same languagea thunderbolt. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- If he ever comes back, I'll poison him,' thought Mr. Pott, as he turned into the little back office where he prepared his thunderbolts. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Thunderbolts and daggers! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The old man in his dreams of the past rejoices in his achievements, for he has stolen the fires of Prometheus and forged anew the thunderbolts of Jove for the arts of peace. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Editor: Rosanne