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
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
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
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
