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.

The flags of war like storm-birds fly, The charging trumpets blow; Yet rolls no thunder in the sky, No earthquake strives below.

The lad, grinning, pointed to the culprit against whom the Doctor was pouring out the thunders of his just wrath.

Since, come now, remove the fear of death, and bring as many thunders and lightnings as thou wilt, and thou shalt know how great is the tranquillity and calm in that reason which is the ruling faculty of the soul.

You never heard of Humboldt's complaining that any one had stolen his thunder,he knew that no one could lift his bolts.

And he smiled calmly at Donnegan in the manner of one who, having escaped the lightning bolt itself, does not fear mere thunder.

But closely as they cling to it, "cursed be Canaan" is a poor drug to stupify a throbbing consciencea mocking lullaby, vainly wooing slumber to unquiet tossings, and crying "Peace, be still," where God wakes war, and breaks his thunders.

Then they send thunder rumbling through our mountains, and the sound is as soft to them as a whisper to us.

Even as George told us of that which he had found we became aware that the night was upon us; for suddenly the crying ceased, and in place thereof there came out of the far distance the low thunder of the night-growling, that had tormented us through the past two nights.

The word animikig in Ojibway means "it thunders and lightnings;" in their myths this tribe says that the West Wind is created by Animiki, the Thunder.

And first one universal shriek there rushed, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hushed, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gushed, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.

They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of the heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows.

You know the Jews were reproved for thinking a village destroyed by fire more wicked than those that had escaped the thunder.

Next, flashes of lightning sped swiftly along the skies, and peals of crashing thunder appalled the earth and me likewise.

And likewise had we eyes to see the Dancer of the Sunset, casting her mighty robes so strange; and ears to know that there shakes a silent thunder over the Face of Dawn; and much else that we knew and saw and understood together in our utter joy.

Then stillnessof a suddenand the ground trembles with a far-off throbbing as a convoy of motor lorries approaching thunders past us, rumbling over the bridge and out into the darkness, driving for supplies.

O, then instruct me some Divine power; Thou that canst give the sight unto the blind, Open my blind iudgement Thunder: Enter an Angel.

to have been dealing out Heaven's thunders, as if I were infallible!

Moreover they heard close by, evidently on the boulevard, a terrific noise of musketry, and a cannonade which resembled continuous thunder.

O sir, Jupiter is making thunder, he hears you not: here's one knows better.

Besides all such as are in deos contumeliosi, blaspheme, contemn, neglect God, or scoff at him, as the poets feign of Salmoneus, that would in derision imitate Jupiter's thunder, he was precipitated for his pains, Jupiter intonuit contra, &c. so shall they certainly rue it in the end, (in se spuit, qui in coelum spuit), their doom's at hand, and hell is ready to receive them.

Now roars the thunder of great Accad's cars, Their brazen chariots as blazing stars Through Nuk-khu's depths with streams of blazing fire, Thus fall upon the foe with vengeful ire.

What when we fled amain, pursued and strook With Heavns afflicting Thunder, and besought The Deep to shelter us; this Hell then seem'd A Refuge from those Wounds In short, the Poet never mentions anything of this Battel but in such Images of Greatness and Terror as are suitable to the Subject.

The Lord also thundered out of heaven, and the Highest gave his thunder: hailstones, and coals of fire.

Addisons greatest critics had something to learn when they were blind to the significance of the contrast between Visible Strength at the opening of this poem, and the close with sublime prophecy of an unseen Power of the Future that disturbs Zeus on his throne, and gathers his thunders about the undaunted Prometheus.