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

The world seems to be on tiptoe, listening for a thunderstroke of Fate.

From The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War by Caine, Hall, Sir

Elijah thought, that, if Jackson had not been killed by his own men after delivering that thunderstroke, Hooker would have been annihilated.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

This fell on the province with the power and rapidity of a thunderstroke; it made no cry, no movement; Bretagne expired.

From The Regent's Daughter by Dumas père, Alexandre

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 Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)