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

To her hearer the final phrase was like a thunderstroke.

From Demos by Gissing, George

It had been almost silent along the lines when the enemy's batteries opened fire with one enormous thunderstroke, which was followed by continuous salvos.

From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip

The child did not bow under this sudden blow of fate, which seemed to put an end to his existence ere it had well begun; he received the thunderstroke standing.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

And he whirled his club aloft more threateningly than ever, as if he were about to smite them with a thunderstroke right amidships, because Athens, so little while ago, had been at war with Crete.

From Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel