lightning

• At the jail, the desk officer's newspaper told of a village twenty miles downriver destroyed by fire--lightning or tribal violence, no one could say, for there were no survivors--and a small headline below the fold reported that fish were dying by the thousands in a lake fed by the Kilombo. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
• There wasn't much darkness now; the lightning was an almost continuous blaze. —  162 - Three Times a Corpse
• It examines without fear, it walks without looking behind it; Cronos, the stupid, swallowed stones, Zeus breaks them with the lightning, and the lightning is the will. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
• Q Geoff, the Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that the director general of the Israeli defense ministry made what they call a lightning visit to Washington yesterday. —  GlobalSecurity.org
• I love his expression, and the lightning is a nice touch. —  Popular in the last 8 hours

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