In an instant, all the air was full of rain, and a hundred lightning flashes seemed to flood downward, as it were in one great shower.

The lakes and falls would be buried then; but so, also, would be the traces of destructive feet, while the views of the mountains in their winter garb, and the ride at lightning speed down the pass between the snowy walls, would be truly glorious.

A mortgaged house, painted flesh color, a front exposure, brick windows and a brass lightning rod.

Everything is refreshed and invigorated, a steam of fragrance rises, and the storm is finishedone cloud, one lightning-stroke, and one dash of rain.

Occasionally, too, one may see hazel twigs placed in the window frames during a heavy shower, and the Tyroleans regard it as an excellent lightning conductor.

But you ask, "what inspiration can there be in a moon and stars, that we see every night, when the sky is cloudless; in a desolate wilderness; the roar of the frogs; the hooting of owls; these useless waters; the phosphorescent flash of lightning bugs; these piled up rocks and barren mountains?

And he, as the story goes, clutched at a lightning bolt and caught but a spark.

We finished the dish with such lightning rapidity that our host boiled us a number of eggs, which, I fear, denuded his larder.

With lightning swiftness Kazan returned the cut, and in an instant the jaws of the dogs had met.

LIGHTNING PLANTS V. PLANTS IN WITCHCRAFT VI.

"With wingéd expedition, Swift as the lightning glance, he executes His errand on the wicked."

If you doe this There is an Arme Armipotent that can fling you Into a base grave, and your Pallaces With Lightning strike and of their Ruines make A Tombe for you, unpitied and abhorr'd.

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

Behind the throne were ranged a dozen guards, armed with the spear and with the lightning gun used in hunting.

The lightning runner.

It had all one common mark; it was all "the church," but the hit-and-miss of it, its lightning change, bewildered him.

The lightning men.

May lightning blast you if you do not open!"

For a few moments he took the aggressive, rushing Jean to the stove, behind the table, twice around the roomstriving vainly to drive him into a corner, to reach him with one of the sweeping blows which Croisset evaded with the lightning quickness of a hell-diver.

He, supple, nimble, expert, writhed away like an adder from all these lightning movements.

The lightning kid.

Were I the worthiest to advise your honour, You should pursue him with your spredding bandes Swifter in march then is the lightning flame, And take him tardy whilst his plots are tame.

If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind? From pride, from pride, our very reasoning springs.

"I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

But if one have in readiness a pan of water, a fire, or a red cloth, the bird will let the plant fall, which otherwise it would be a difficult work to obtain, "the notion, no doubt, being that the bird must return the mystic plant to the element from which it springs, that being either the water of the clouds or the lightning fire enclosed therein.