The Brahmans, with their contrary doctrine, became full of hatred and envy in their hearts, and wished to destroy them, but there came from the heavens such a storm of crashing thunder and flashing lightning that they were not able in the end to effect their purpose.

Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

By reason of its celestial origin this much-coveted plant, when buried in the ground at the summit of a mountain, has the reputation of drawing down the lightning and dividing the storm.

My dauntless spirits never quail At earthquakes, hurricanes, or hail; The rolling thunder's fiery car Has never dared my form to mar; I've heard its rumbling undismayed, While forked lightnings round me played; But O, thou little murm'ring brook, How mean and meager is thy look; Babbling, babbling, all day long, How I detest thy simple song.

It circulates in various forms, the commonest being that the king was so confined for defying the lightning; and it takes no great stretch of the imagination to fancy in this idea a reference to the firearms used by the Spanish conquerors.

" Johnson is Jupiter Tonans: he darts his lightning and rolls his thunder, in the cause of virtue and piety.

The shocks became louder and louder; and whilst five or six of us were watching the lightning from a large window in the hall, there was a deafening report as of a dozen canons exploding simultaneously at close quarters.

The one conducted the lightning safely from the sky; the other conducts it beneath the ocean from continent to continent.

"It has receded into that infinite from whence it was commissioned to earth to strike its lightning upon the eye of a falling, erring, miserable mortal.

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them: he cast forth lightnings, and destroyed them.

There then, again, the luck-flower is no doubt intended to denote the lightning, which reveals strange treasures, giving water to the parched and thirsty land, and, as Mr. Fiske remarks, "making plain what is doing under cover of darkness."

Which on their ravish'd ears pour'd thrilling, like The silver sound of many trumpets, heard Afar in sweetest jubilee: then, swift Stretching his dreadful sceptre to the left, That shot forth horrid lightnings, in a voice Clothed but in half its terrors, yet to them Seem'd like the crush of heaven, pronounced the doom.

The poet also launches the lightning of political indignation; but it rather plays round and illumines his own pen than reaches the devoted heads at which it is aimed!

The one tamed the lightning; the other makes it minister to human wants and human progress.

Are you catching the lightning?" "No," said Willie; "something better than the lightningthe sunlight.

The thought of the services of my bell, in averting lightning and inundation from the good people of Epinal, fills me with indescribable beatitude.

An unformed, undeveloped mind never threw out great things spontaneously, as the cloud throws out lightning.

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC By JULIA WARD HOWE Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, 5 Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

These giants denied the existence of a Great Spirit, and when they heard the thunder or saw the lightning they laughed at it and said that they were greater than either.

"He snatched lightning from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants.

Deep trenches surrounded inaccessible redoubts, while thick barricades, with pointed palisades, defended the approaches to the heights, from the summits of which Wallenstein calmly and securely discharged the lightnings of his artillery from amid the dark thunder-clouds of smoke.

The Tuberose and African Marigold have been seen to emit these mimic lightnings.

[Footnote 2: When Father Buteux was among the Algonkins, in 1637, they explained to him the lightning as "a great serpent which the Manito vomits up."

Hercules disappeared the last, just as the rain fell with such rage that it seemed to extinguish the lightnings.