thunderstroke
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"It is one of the mysteries of nature," he said in 1906, after his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis at 24, "that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live."
From Time Magazine Archive
My father was then in the zenith of his prosperity, and was absorbed in his affairs; yet this loss—this heavy blow—came upon him like a thunderstroke.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
He had had, up to this hour, in the sky within him, a rain of scruples, a tempest of doubts, a thunderstroke of lust; now was silence and death.
From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
Tempest and thunderstroke, With whirlwinds dipped in midnight at the core, Have torn strange furrows through your forest cloak, And made your hollow gorges clash and roar, And scarred your brows in vain.
From Alcyone by Archibald Lampman
Like the Marne, it represents the checkmate of a supreme effort on the part of the Germans to end the war swiftly by a thunderstroke.
From World's War Events, Vol. II by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
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