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Sentences starting with lightning

Lightning does not move more quickly than my Conscience did! [5]
Lightning sometimes fails in its effect, but the look she flashed back at him from under her blue lashes seldom misses. [9]
Lightning and hail had entered the "delightful garden" of Adam's life also, and he had been thrust forth from the little circle of the happy into the great army of the wretched. [10]

Sentences ending with lightning

You make up your mind that the earthquake is due; you stand from under, and take hold of something to steady yourself, and the first thing you know you get struck by lightning. [5]
Sixty days hence, when they are called to deliver the goods, they will think they've been struck by lightning. [5]
Now, if we watch every night, we'll be dead sure to see him go out, some time or other, and then we'll snatch that box quicker'n lightning. [5]
But the Frenchman was too agile and adroit for him: he took the thrust in the flesh of his ribs and riposted like lightning. [11]
Venters looked out upon the beautiful valley--beautiful now as never before--mystic in its transparent, luminous gloom, weird in the quivering, golden haze of lightning. [13]
Presently he sprang up and said: "Thunder and lightning! [5]
The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning. [12]
We were like to be drowned with the rain, deafened with the howling wind and the booming thunder, and blinded by the lightning. [5]
But the strangest thing that ever happened to Jim was the time he went boating on Sunday, and didn't get drowned, and that other time that he got caught out in the storm when he was fishing on Sunday and didn't get struck by lightning. [5]
And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning. [5]

Short sentences using lightning

The lad counted like lightning. [11]
Thunder and lightning! [10]
What lightning! [2]

Sentences containing lightning two or more times

It was like lightning, and gone like lightning, as was the look that flashed between them. [11]
There are a great many more clouds than rains, and more rains than strokes of lightning, and more strokes of lightning than there are people killed. [6]

More example sentences with the word lightning in them

But as the zigzag flash of lightning had just been followed by the peal of thunder, she clung to him, earnestly beseeching him not to leave her. [10]
Trying to impose your vile second-hand carcasses on us!--thunder and lightning, I've a notion to--to--if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!--or by George we'll brain you! [5]
When anything goes wrong, his perception of it is like a lightning flash,--and he acts as quickly. [9]
Out in the wood, in spite of thunder and lightning, he made her to put on Eppelein's weed and mount the nag. [10]
When they were within thirty yards of me they let their long lances droop to a level, depressed their mailed heads, and so, with their horse-hair plumes streaming straight out behind, most gallant to see, this lightning express came tearing for me! [5]
And Venters thought with lightning swiftness, "I've saved her--I've unlinked her from that old life--she was watching as if I were all she had left on earth--she belongs to me! [13]
Like lightning, and with cold fury in his eyes, Foyle caught the tall cattleman by the forearm, and, with a swift, dexterous twist, had the fellow in his power. [11]
Here she stopped with a shriek, dropping the comb, for the thundercloud was now directly over the city, and a loud peal, following close upon the flash of lightning, shook the house; but Barbara scarcely heeded the dazzling glare and the rattling panes. [10]
And any preacher who goes out with me in stormy weather and without a lightning rod is a good one. [5]
Does not the whisper pass as the lightning flashes? [11]
For instance, take What's-her-name, that plays those sensational thunder and lightning parts. [5]
Yet on I went, though wondering that the path along which I groped my way led upward, until the lightning showed me that, by mistake, I had taken the road to Greifenstein. [10]
In their eyes was the livid lightning that searched in spasms of anger for its prey, while there swept over the brown, aching veld the flood which filled the spruits, which made the rivers seas, and ploughed fresh channels through the soil. [11]
His own theory was that the Milky Way was an emigration of lightning bugs; and he supported and reinforced this theorem by the well-known fact that the locusts do like that in Egypt. [5]
Suddenly the song was hushed, for a flash of lightning had shone down through the aperture beneath which Kallias had stationed the bride and bridegroom, followed by a loud peal of thunder. [10]
The minute I was far enough above the town to see I could make the towhead, I begun to look sharp for a boat to borrow, and the first time the lightning showed me one that wasn't chained I snatched it and shoved. [5]
The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there. [5]
But he draw up his gun like lightning, and fire all at once. [11]
His brown eyes under the rough thatch of his eyebrow took in the room with lightning glance, and he nodded respectfully, yet with great friendliness, at John Grier. [11]
Once when I turned short and dodged under his arm he made a grab and got me by the jacket between my shoulders, and I thought I was gone; but I slid out of the jacket quick as lightning, and saved myself. [5]
You walk carelessly toward the academy grove, where you will find me with a lightning steed, elegantly equipped to bear you off where we shall be joined in wedlock with the first connubial rights. [5]
It was beginning to put on a threatening aspect; it was tired of standing, tired of the scorching heat; and the thunder was coming nearer, the lightning was flashing brighter. [5]
The peal of thunder, which so swiftly followed the lightning, also startled them and when, soon after, a second one shook the house with its crashing, rattling roar, Herr Ernst went out to wake the chief packer. [10]
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. [5]
The storm raved through the halls and corridors; lightning and thunder raged fiercely overhead; and the terrified wretches, suddenly sobered, rushed about or huddled together, like ants whose nest has been upturned. [10]
The thought flashed through his mind like lightning, even as he bowed before Harrik, who salaamed and said: "Peace be unto thee! [11]
A thought darted through his brain with the speed of lightning, and without hesitation he drew the ring from the hand of his astonished daughter, whispering curtly, yet tenderly, in reply to her anxious cry, "What are you doing? [10]
These reflections darted through his brain with the speed of lightning, and still stirred his heart when he was ushered into the impluvium, where the magistrates were impatiently awaiting the owner of the house. [10]
All this flashed through her mind with the swiftness of lightning, and her call, "Doris! [10]
This reflection flashed through her mind with the speed of lightning while she was listening to Althea's conversation with the sculptor. [10]
The coming storm threatening more and more, with now and then a little shiver of wind, a faint show of lightning, and dull grumblings of distant thunder. [5]
The expression of this sentiment was fiercely written in his face, and stood thus revealed to Roxana by a white glare of lightning which turned the somber dusk of the room into dazzling day at that moment. [5]
By and by there was a flash of lightning, and we see him start to get up, but he staggered and fell down. [5]
Well then, just then the sky split wide open, with a crash, and the lightning killed two men of the after watch, and crippled two more. [5]
The force of the storm was broken, the wind had subsided, distant flashes of lightning still illumined the northern horizon, and the night air was stiflingly sultry. [10]
He said-- 'By the Shadow of Death, but he's a lightning pilot! [5]
Then was heard the low rumbling of distant thunder, then the lightning quivered, and then the darkness of an hour seemed to have gathered in an instant. [12]
I wondered where the lightning was going to strike next. [5]
Why not take the lightning off the outer fences, and give them a chance? [5]
And every time the lightning come, there was that bar'l with the blue lights winking around it. [5]
Quick as lightning the half-breed sprang for a window, tore his way through all opposers, and was gone! [5]
Within the room the dim light of the little lamp and the fiery glare of the lightning illumined tear-stained, agitated faces. [10]
The act followed the desire as the sound follows the blow of the hammer, the thunder the flash of lightning. [10]
Words had been the clouds in which the lightning of their thoughts had been lost; they had been the disguises in which the truth of things masqueraded. [11]
There, coming down the cable with the speed of lightning, was the cage. [11]
And through all that bombardment only one patch of slates was ripped up, and that was because, for a single instant, the rods in the vicinity were transporting all the lightning they could possibly accommodate. [5]
Instead, came a tap; and, "like lightning, it flashed upon me what was coming. [14]
The lightning is tamed and harnessed, the thunderbolt has become a common carrier. [6]
He commandeered my sulky and that rawbone I bought from the Reverend Tripple, and away he went like greased lightning over the bridge. [11]
All of a sudden the lightning let go a perfect sluice of white glare, and somebody sings out: "By the living jingo, here's the bag of gold on his breast! [5]
I never saw such ahead for seeing with a lightning glance all the outlying ramifications and possibilities of a central idea. [5]
The attempt was successful and, amid the thunder and lightning, greeted with loud cheers, the last man and the last head of cattle reached the land. [10]
For show, and style, and grandeur, and thunder and lightning and fireworks it outclasses all the previous inventions of man, and raises the limit on the Pope. [5]
The lightning had struck only the convent barn; the cow stable, when we arrived, was still safe, but the flames soon reached it also. [10]
The asp had struck its fangs into the upper part of her arm like an icy flash of lightning, and a few instants later Cleopatra sank back upon her pillows lifeless. [10]
But scarcely had Stephanus felt the touch of the Gaul's fingers when he started as struck by lightning, and flung himself with a hoarse cry on his enemy who was hanging on the edge of the wall. [10]
The amphitheatre was soon emptied, amid the flare of lightning and the crash and roll of thunder. [10]
But the storm soon burst, and it grew so dark that, except when the lightning flashed, I could not see my hand before my face. [10]
As I did so, there was a flash of lightning, and in that flash a figure hurried by me. [11]
When he caught sight of the count his eyes flashed lightning. [2]
But, oh, I should like to know the name of the Lightning Express by which they were forwarded; for I owe a friend a dozen chickens, and I believe it will be cheaper to send eggs instead, and let them develop on the road. [5]
Or if Polykarp should have been searching for her on the mountain in this storm, and in the darkness should have fallen into some abyss, or have been struck by the lightning? [10]
The lightning had set it on fire. [10]
Serapis had perhaps sent the lightning, thunder and rain as a message to warn his foes. [10]
It did not seem that a lightning express train could shoot along at a more hair-lifting speed. [5]
In a few seconds these thoughts darted through his heated brain with the speed of lightning. [10]
And at the same time I saw, by the glare of the lightning, that the old lime-tree in the midst of my aunt's herb garden was lying on the earth. [10]
Pentaur's glance flew round the one low, over-filled room of the paraschites' hut, and like a lightning flash the thought, "How will the princess and her train find room here? [10]
They now suddenly rose to a deafening uproar, and while the sound rolled on like approaching thunder, broken by shrill whistles suggesting lightning, the sturdy old apple-seller clambered unaided on to her table, and shouted with all her might: "Caesar! [10]
The clouds were rolling northward, and the thunder followed the flashes of lightning at longer and longer intervals. [10]
He was a roaring, terrific combination of wind and lightning and thunder, and earnest, whole-souled profanity. [5]
As for his rhapsodies, Number Seven, our "cracked Teacup," says they sound to him like "fugues played on a big organ which has been struck by lightning. [6]
The first lightning rent the sky and the storm came up in haste, bursting above our heads, and as the thunder roared closer and closer after the flash I was more and more frightened. [10]
His countenance was red and distorted; he trembled with rage, and his angry glance fell like a flash of lightning on the luckless brothers. [10]
Like lightning Lacey realised the danger, and saw the only way of escape. [11]
A light shiver ran through his frame with the speed of lightning, and the Epicurean's maxim that fear and cold are companions darted through his brain. [10]
A storm is raging, with wind and rain and occasional bright flashes of lightning and heavy peals of thunder. [9]
The lightning came quick and sharp now, and the place was alternately noonday and midnight. [5]
It is without question that fierce and most destructive fluid called lightning. [5]
It hit the pier in the center and went all to smash and scatteration like a box of matches struck by lightning. [5]
All these thoughts passed through my mind, not with the rapidity of lightning, as is usual in such cases, but with the slowness of conviction. [4]
Herr Ernst hastened out of the room just as Katterle's shriek, "The lightning struck! [10]
We sat in our seats three whole hours and never understood anything but the thunder and lightning; and even that was reversed to suit German ideas, for the thunder came first and the lightning followed after. [5]
It was Jack-o'-lanterns, or lightning bugs; so he set down again, and went to watching, same as before. [5]
There had been only the one lightning instant in which he had felt a kind of suspension of her breath and being, but when he had looked her in the face, she was composed and smiling. [11]
Still Virginia sat on the porch, while the frogs sang of rain, and the lightning quivered across the eastern sky. [9]
Like lightning the old man straightened himself, snatched the wig and beard away from his head and face, and with quiet fearlessness said: "Yes, I am Ingolby. [11]
You remember our old friend Squire B., whose companion was killed by lightning when he was standing close to him. [6]
The clerk scratched off the names with lightning rapidity, scarce waiting for the answers. [9]
This pleasing anticipation--that of traveling by lightning, and all being huddled together--is nothing to the promised universal illumination by a diffused light that shall make midnight as bright as noonday. [4]
But the captain of the body-guard, who had followed Othman, had watched his movements: Swift as lightning he rose in his saddle and swung his cimeter, which cut deep into the Vekeel's neck. [10]
In the language of that flash of social lightning, Beranger, "May the Devil fly away with me if I can see! [4]
In this atmosphere of telephones and lightning communication with distant regions, I was breathing the breath of life again after long suffocation. [5]
The lightning lines of our souls got crossed-- Crossed, and could never again be free Till Death should call from his midnight sea. [11]
Like a flash of lightning, Kuni, whose kind heart cherished resentment against few and wished no one any evil, suddenly felt an ardent desire to drive the little witch from Lienhard's side, even by force, if necessary. [10]
To use one of his own metaphors, he stepped out to meet the rainbow and got struck by lightning. [5]
One bold turn of Fortune's wheel will bring him, who has stood at the bottom, up to the top with the speed of lightning. [10]
The story has now become history --printed history--it having been sympathetically told by Howells in My Mark Twain, and more exhaustively, with a report of the speech that invited the lightning, in a former work by the present writer. [5]
The explorers were now assailed with violent storms, and at last took refuge for two days on some uninhabited islands, which by reason of the ill weather and the hurly-burly of thunder, lightning, wind, and rain, they called "Limbo. [4]
The lightning had not, as usual, rent the darkness with long, jagged flashes, but had fallen to the ground as great fiery balls which, however, had set nothing aflame. [10]

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