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 J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
These words fell upon Charlotte like a thunderstroke: she rose from her seat half-fainting, and unconscious of what she did.
From The Sorrows of Young Werther by R. Dillon Boylan
To her hearer the final phrase was like a thunderstroke.
From Demos by George Gissing
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
