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
This was a thunderstroke to the unfortunate cavalier.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
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 Philip Gibbs
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
To her hearer the final phrase was like a thunderstroke.
From Demos by George Gissing
