lightning bolt

“To her friends she was gentle, stanch, loyal and a protectoress; to her enemies she was a lightning bolt from the skies, a ruthless and total destroyer.”

The HurricaneStory

“I may not know all that much about starships, but I do know that triggering what amounted to a major lightning bolt between the space horse and the Scapa Flow could have taken out both the hull's micro seams and the Mitsuushi ring in the bargain. ”

Warhorse

“Later stories say that on the night before the wedding as she lay sleeping a peal of thunder crashed around the palace and a lightning bolt shot into her room, striking her womb without harming her.”

Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

“At the edge of the clearing, Nicci settled herself on a gray slab of granite that, by the unique angles of its broken face, had once belonged to the ledge poking out from under the deep green of balsam and spruce behind her, but over time had been moved away from it by the inexorable effort of nature, leaving a gap the shape of a jagged lightning bolt between their once-mated edges.”

Fictionaut: Men Don't Leave Me

“Did Blessed Elua have some purpose in joining our hearts together in one swift lightning bolt of a night?”

Simon & Schuster: Songs of Love & Death

“With a twitch of self-disgust, Purcell realized that the orange lightning bolt had been a cat.”

Simon & Schuster: Etched in Bone