thunderbolt
Speech parts
1. thunderbolt - Noun
2. Thunderbolt - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
A belemnite, or thunderstone.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
He that pryeth into the clouds, may be struck with a thunderbolt.
He that pries into the clouds may be struck with a thunderbolt.