The thunder, the footfalls, became a hurried knocking at his door.

The thunder was a continual roll, and both from the front and rear flew the whining lightning bolts, spewing out death and destruction.

Why brilliant morning dew gives a white tint to pearls; why bad weather causes them to turn yellow; why they like a clear sky, and remain immovable when it thunders, are questions which cannot be examined with precision by those ignorant natives.

What 'n thunder's that'ere raoun' y'r neck?

In the 'Spectator's' time the Rehearsal was an acted play, in which Penkethman had the part of the gentleman Usher, and Bullock was one of the two Kings of Brentford; Thunder was Johnson, who played also the Grave-digger in Hamlet and other reputable parts.

From her wilds Ierne sent The sweetest lyrist of her saddest wrong, And love taught grief to fall like music from his tongue. 31. 'Midst others of less note came one frail form, A phantom among men, companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell.

Mixed with the roaring of the flames, the thunder of falling roofs, the cracking of timber, was a wild hubbub of human voices, that sounded afar off like a dismal wail.

Without is a horror of hosts that fight, That rest not, and cease not to kill, The thunder of feet and the cry of flight, A slaughter weird and shrill; Gray dreams are set in the weaver's sight, The weaver is weaving still.

"What'n thunder's the use havin' city folks here, ef they don't buy nothin'?"

What 'n thunder's that'ere raoun' y'r neck?

" The roaring thunder, dreadful in its ire, Is water warring with aërial fire.

To me the thunder was "stage" thunder, the lightning man-made, and the accompanying rain due to some clever contrivance of my persecutors.

For the lightning and the thunder are powers to be reckoned with in those awful realms of chaos.

Thunder and lightning now for wit are play'd, And shortly scenes in Lapland will be laid: Art magic is for poetry profess'd; And cats and dogs, and each obscener beast, To which Egyptian dotards once did bow, Upon our English stage are worshipp'd now.

The storm was still at its height; the thunder was an almost continuous roar; and the quick lightning-flashes lit up the streaming country.

What is the thunder, and where does it come from?" "Thunder is a large bird, flying through the air; its bright tracks are seen in the heavens, before you hear the clapping of its wings.

The lightning was the taper bright, The thunder was the melody, To which they danced with horrid glee.

But then it grew dark and began to thunder, and the angel went down very fast, and the thunder was the clapping of his big red wings, and he flew with her into her mamma's room, and laid her down in her crib, and when she looked at him he was so like Willie.

He was in a black cell, and the thundering was the steady advance of men along an iron floor to take him "Bobby! Bobby!" He flung out his hands.