Thundered

"Thundered" is a longer word than "roared," and would, of course, help to gain the penny which a writer gets for a line.

The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879

Thundered the president, threatening veto, "It would be an error to set up a situation in the United States where one person could own half the television stations in the country."

Mickey's Wake-Up Call 2008

Thundered all along from west to the N. east, came on to rain about 12

Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961

Thundered & lightened to the south & west. all passed off without one drop of Rain.

Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961

And wider still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bar, And louder yet into Winchester rolled The roar of that red sea, uncontrolled, Making the blood of the listener cold As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, And Sheridan twenty miles away.

The Romance of the Civil War 1903

Thundered and lightened through the vaults of hell.

A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

Thundered makes third start back switching to top bugboy Serpa.

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