thunderstroke

Example Sentences

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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

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)

To her hearer the final phrase was like a thunderstroke.

From Demos by Gissing, George

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

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