Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.
It hit me like a thunderbolt!
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?
There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.
Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
