And against Idas Zeus hurled a thunderbolt of consuming fire.

Every damned newspaper I've picked up seems to be launching thunderbolts at the B. & I.

He forged the thunderbolts for Zeus, and was the armorer of heaven.

We all fired our pistols into him together, but nothing could stop that thunderbolt of a man.

But as John still persevered in his contumacy, there remained nothing but the sentence of deposition; which, though intimately connected with the former, had been distinguished from it by the artifice of the court of Rome; and Innocent determined to dart this last thunderbolt against the refractory monarch.

It was papered of a silver-grey colour, with a sky-blue ceiling, in the centre of which was the Imperial eagle in gold, holding a thunderbolt.

The Pope then seized the old thunderbolts of the Gregories and the Clements, and excommunicated the daring monk and preacher, and threatened the like punishment on all who should befriend him.

The Kirata also blazing splendour, let fly an arrow like flaming fire and resembling the thunderbolt at the same object.

We have conquered the thunderbolt and learned to write with the burning fluid out of which it is forged.

Started the weak of them, shouted the strong of them, Crashed we a thunderbolt into the throng of them, Blindly with heads bent, and shields forced before us, We heard the dense roar of the strife closing o'er us.

On occasions when boys in his own house and boys from other houses were accomplices and partners in wrongdoing, Mr. Downing distributed his thunderbolts unequally, and the school noticed it.

They thought the sailors gods, and the discharge of their muskets divine thunderbolts.

One night,'t wuz jest a year from the night I'd walked 'ith him in thet lane,I wuz stan'in' by the door, an' all ter once I heerd a noise an' crash ez ef all the thunderbolts in the Almighty's hand hed fallen together, an' I run deown the lane an' met the men bringin' up sunthin' on an old door.

She bit her lip from sheer pain, for 'twas Cedric's mother's prized brooch, and through her heart fell a thunderbolt of fear; for now she knew he would not allow a baggage to wear a thing so valued by the mother whose memory he so loved.

From a few bald phrases she fashioned the thunderbolt which shattered them, saw him stunned, then alive again, struggling.

We shall end by getting Roch's thunderbolts entirely in our own hand, and then" "Are you sure, Serko?" "Quite sure,by paying the price, Ker Karraje.

Then grasped the lord his thunderbolt, his mighty weapon, Angry at Tiamat he hurled his words: * *

And as Damayanti was an obedient wife to Nala, or as Sachi is to the god who holdeth the thunderbolt in his hand or as Indrasena, Narayana's daughter, was always obedient to Mudgala, so did Santa wait affectionately upon Rishyasringa, when he lived in the wood.

Is there cruelty in laying the rein on their necks, and delivering them up to the transport of their high conditionfor every throbbing vein is visibleat the first full burst of that maddening cry, and letting loose to their delight the living thunderbolts?

This was news, if you like: a thunderbolt in the midst of our rural serenity.

VULCAN, the Roman god of fire and an artificer In metals, identified with the Greek HEPHÆSTUS (q. v.); had a temple to his honour in early Rome; was fabled to have had a forge under Mount Etna, where he manufactured thunderbolts for Jupiter, the Cyclops being his workmen.

"You sulphurous and thought executed fires, Vaunt couriers to oak cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head!

This, this is the man of God, so sanctified a thunderbolt, that Burroughs (in a proportionable blasphemy to his Lord of Hosts) would style him the archangel giving battle to the devil.

When he read in the Cyclops of Euripides, "Stranger, I laugh to scorn Zeus's thunderbolts," he grew for a moment thoughtful.

And so this young Italian, quiet, retiring, unassuming, and yet possessing Jove's power of sending thunderbolts, came to London (in 1896), to upbuild and link nation to nation more closely.