Darkness had just fallen, and there was that stifling oppression in the air that fore-tokened a thunderstorm.

Kate's face was softened and full of rich expression; her pink ribbons threw a delicate tinge of bloom upon the rounded cheek and pensive eyelid; the air was pure balm, and a cool breath from the receding showers of the distant thunderstorm just freshened the odors of wood and field.

I went towards the boulevards; I saw there a furnace; I heard there a thunderstorm.

A mountain thunderstorm was on.

In the course of this journey the poet happened to be alone with his guides, when they lost their way during a tremendous thunderstorm, and he has commemorated the circumstance in the spirited stanzas beginning Chill and mink is the nightly blast.

The Acheron, which they crossed in this route, is now called the Kalamas, a considerable stream, as large as the Avon at Bath but towards the evening they had some cause to think the Acheron had not lost all its original horror; for a dreadful thunderstorm came on, accompanied with deluges of rain, which more than once nearly carried away their luggage and horses.

A violent thunderstorm during the night was followed by a rainy and misty morning; the weather clearing up, we walked down to the Chapman River, which was running in a sandy channel with small shallow pools.

He behaves like a cat in a thunderstorm.

The ship has, so to speak, in its belly, an imprisoned thunderstorm, striving to escape; something like a thunderbolt rumbling above an earthquake.

It is difficult to say why it seemed to me that this deep stillness masked an intense activity; perhaps in every mood lies the suggestion of its opposite, so that I became aware of the contrast of furious energy, for it was like moving through the deep pause before a thunderstorm, and I trod gently lest by breaking a twig or moving a stone I might set the whole scene into some sort of tumultuous movement.

The moon was hidden behind dark clouds, and the stillness was precursory of the thunderstorm which for the past hour or so had threatened.

One or two of these might be dignified with the name of mountains, and were sufficiently high to arrest the passing clouds; on the afternoon of our arrival we had a singular example in the dissipation of a thunderstorm.

A thunderstorm was rumbling and flashing down from the mountains to the north.

In the darkness and uproar of a thunderstorm he escapes from the guarded works.

The night grew wild and stormy; a thunderstorm broke over the hill.

This beautiful being, clad in shining raiment, who had saved and soothed her like an angel from heaven, was the pale girl Jim had gone to visit in her stately, luxurious home, when she followed him so far through those weary streets on the night of the thunderstorm.

(Pub. abroad as Thunderstorm in the Quiver, May 1927, chapter 30-33) © 3Oct27 (pub.

A thunderstorm gathered and broke furiously, and then the night became beautifully cool and quiet and everyone slept on deck.

During a thunderstorm in Africa, Chapman (I., 45) witnessed the following extraordinary scene: "A great number of women, employed in reaping the extensive corn-fields through which we passed were raising their hoes and voices to heaven, and, yelling furiously, cursed 'Morimo' (God), as the terrific thunder-claps succeeded each vivid flash of lightning.

IV Another night, just after moonrise, a wind arose and drove in front of it the whole night long a great thunderstorm, with lightnings and rollings and grumblings and mutterings, but never a spot of rain.

V A tremendous thunderstorm took place about a fortnight after I left home.

THUNDERSTORM.

I was sorry to find, that the tide did not at present rise sufficient to admit the large boats into the fresh water, so that getting a load would have been a very long operation, had it not been for a tremendous fall of rain that followed a thunderstorm, deluging every pool, and at once affording the means of filling the casks.

A massive W. tower was built in 1634 to replace a tower which stood at the E. end of the N. aisle, and was destroyed by a thunderstorm.

The Countess has gone; everybody has goneshe must have stampeded 'em, by the wayand as the Jew said, when a thunderstorm broke on the picnic, 'Here's a fuss over a little bit of ham!'