Such storms, called cloud-bursts by the country folk, are not rain, rather the spillings of Thor's cup, jarred by the Thunderer.

" "Agreed," the Thunderer cries; "go plant Thine edifice, I care not how ill; Take notice, earth.

"Is the Thunderer in her station?" said the admiral to the signal lieutenant, who at that moment came below with a report.

Whatever it was, doubtless it was rigidly enforced; for the Thunderer, it would seem, had a Bastile, or lock-up, with iron doors and a brazen threshold specially provided for contumacious and disobedient gods.

[Footnote 7: The Lokrians worshipped Zeus especially as the Thunderer, as certain coins of theirs, stamped with a thunderbolt, still testify.

"Up, my comrades, and stand with your broadswords in hand, For the war is great Odin's delight; And the Thunderer proud, how he laughs in his cloud When the Norsemen prepare for the fight!"

But the Thunderer proud, how he laughed in his cloud, When he saw how the Norsemen had fought!

Remember our Archbishop of Canterbury in February 1911 deeply regretting that a previous engagement prevented him from passing on the blessing of the Apostles to the battleship Thunderer.

are ye? The Naiad bathing in her crystal spring, The guardian Nymph of every leafy tree, The rushing Aeolus on viewless wing, The flower-crowned Queen of every cultured lea, And he who walked, with monarch-tread, the sea, The awful Thunderer, threatening them aloud, God!

From his tenth year on he wrote a great deal of verse, early acquiring technical facility and local renown and coming to regard himself as a "thunderer."

Ignoble was he not, and no betrayer; To be the Thunderer's slave, he was too great; To be his friend and comrade,but a man.

The Royal George (of 110 guns) was nearly sunk by only one shot, which carried away her cut-water, and another cut the main-mast of the Windsor Castle nearly in two; a shot knocked two ports of the Thunderer into one; the Repulse (74) had her wheel shot away and twenty-four men killed and wounded by a single shot, nor was the ship saved but by the most wonderful exertions.

'Tis four-and-twenty years the last equinox, Guinea, since master Harry fell across our hawse; and, then, we had been together three years n the 'Thunderer,' besides the run we made round the Horn, in the 'Bay' privateer.

Thus when the bold Typhoeus scaled the sky, And forced great Jove from his own Heaven to fly, (What king, what crown from treason's reach is free, If Jove and Heaven can violated be?) 40 The lesser gods, that shared his prosperous state, All suffer'd in the exiled Thunderer's fate.

But when his tender strength in time shall rise To dare ill tongues, and fascinating eyes; This isle, which hides the little Thunderer's fame, Shall be too narrow to contain his name: The artillery of heaven shall make him known; Crete could not hold the god, when Jove was grown.

The Thunderer terms Juno "My household curse, my lawful plague, the spy Of Jove's designs, his other squinting eye.

Away with yonder wide-mouth'd thunderer; We'll try if gyves and straight confinement cannot Check this high eloquence, and cool the brain Which harbours such unmannerd hopes.

R118335, 28Sep53, Dorothy Faust (W) The thunderer, by Max Brand [pseud.] (In Country gentleman, June-Sept. 1926)

© 2Apr28; A1073418. Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH); 9May55; R149180. BARRINGTON, E. The thunderer, by E. Barrington, pseud. of L. Adams Beck.

They gave thanks for the rain and the victory to the one omnipotent God who had heard their prayers, whilst the pagans rendered like honor to Jupiter, the rain-giver and the thunderer.

Here the great hammer of the Scandinavian Thunderer descended, took nest, and hatched a brood of ten thousand little iron beetles for beating iron and steel into shapes and uses that Tubal Cain never dreamed of.

The "Thunderer's" letters from the camp before Sebastopol became known throughout the civilized world.

One at Bois-le-Duc is called the Devil; a sixty-pounder at Dover Castle, is named Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol; an eighty-pounder at Berlin, is called the Thunderer; another at Malaga, the Terrible; two sixty-pounders at Bremen, the Messengers of Bad News.

THUN (6), a quaint old town of Switzerland, on the Aar, 17 m. SE. of Bern, and barely 1 m. distant from Lake of Thun (12 m. by 2 m.); has a 12th-century castle, &c. THUNDERER, name given to the Times, from certain powerful articles in it ascribed to the editor, Captain Edward Stirling.

Right, "Thunderer," and tersely put!