From Sinai's cloud of darkness The vivid lightnings play; They serve the God of vengeance, The Lord who shall repay.

It was pitch dark in the woods, though now and then a flash of distant lightning came to momentarily relieve the gloom.

The slow and secret poison that Gibbon says was introduced by the long peace into the vitals of the Empire, was, perhaps, among the causes that turned the thoughts of Apuleius to scenes of violence and terrorto the "macabre," as Pater saidjust as it touched his style with the preciosity of decadence, and prompted him to occupy a page with rapture over the "swift lightnings" flashed against the sunlight from women's hair.

I seemed to see, through his words, the pale lightnings of the battle.

For when God's smile was with us we were strong To go like sudden lightning to our mark: As on that summer day when Saladin Passing in scorn our host at Antioch, Who spent the days in revel, and shamed the stars With nightly scandalcame with all his host, Its gay battalia brave with saffron silks, Flaunting the banners of the Caliphate Beneath the walls of fair Jerusalem:

Greased lightning could hardly be quicker than the way you've arranged your trap.

5 Nought we know dies: shall that alone which knows Be as a sword consumed before the sheath By sightless lightning?

O'er the mountain he seems like a tempest to lower, Triumphant and dark in the fulness of power; And flashes of flame, that play round his crest, Bespeak the fierce lightning that glows in his breast.

And as the inky clouds were rent, the fiery lightning flared, And 'mid the terror-stricken crew one voice alone was heard: "Strike sail!

Oftener she saw them flit up-stream in fright, like flashes of gray lightning.

Every day Mrs. Laudersdale was more brilliant, and flashed with a cheery merriment like harmless summer-lightnings.

Above the trees mute lightning played in the cloud.

Her teeth the night with darkness dies, She's starr'd with pimples o'er; Her tongue, like nimble lightning, plies, And can with thunder roar.

" "Of Germany?" snapped Madame, flashing violet lightning from her eyes.

Simultaneously a flash of purple lightning fell from the zenith to the horizon, splitting the clouds asunder, and with it there descended rain in a cataract rather than in torrents, so that in the twinkling of an eye the thirsty sand was saturated, and bubbling pools of water pattered in the deluged path.

Hooked lightning.

The incessant lightning made all things appear as in the glare of day.

Quicker than the dart of the python, the fierce onset of the kingly tiger, the sudden flash of the forked and quivering lightning, was the grasp made at the outstretched arm by the practised Brahmin.

Shall we see that falcon eye Redden with its inward lightning, As the hour of fight drew nigh; Never shall we hear the voice that, Clearer than the trumpet's call, Bade us strike for King and Country, Bade us win the field or fall!

"Scarce the cliffs of the islets, scarce the walls of Joyous Gard Flash to sight between the deadlier lightnings of the sea; Storm is lord and master of a midnight evil-starred, Nor may sight nor fear discern what evil stars may be.

Erle Stanley Gardner (A); 27Feb56; R165574. Crooked lightning.

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC By JULIA WARD HOWE Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.

Every head was covered, to avoid the streaked lightning as it glanced over the bent and terrified forms, that seemed to cling to the earth for protection.

The thunder pealed along the vault of heaventhe lightning appeared to rend the firmament.

He knew that the man-smell and the strange thunder and the still more inexplicable lightning lay behind him.