If the head of a department store is a bit thunderous at times, think what a Jovian position he occupies.

It wouldn't be until after the marriage was an accomplished thing, its first desires satisfied, its first tension relaxed, that the story of her adventure would begin to loom black and thunderous over the horizon of his mind.

Both were white to the lips; their sky, the moment before so clear and still, was now black and thunderous with a frightful storm.