Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bolt of fire or flame; a discharge of lightning such as sets fire to inflammable terrestrial objects: any severe flash which appears to strike downward to the earth's surface.
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Examples
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Stone was about the only thing, besides thick and heavy iron or an order shield, that could stop a large fire-bolt.
Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005
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Fewer were they but they clove through the Southrons like a fire-bolt in a forest.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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She had, it seems, been alarmed by the crash which accompanied the fire-bolt, and had hurried up to learn the cause.
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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She had, it seems, been alarmed by the crash which accompanied the fire-bolt, and had hurried up to learn the cause.
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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She had, it seems, been alarmed by the crash which accompanied the fire-bolt, and had hurried up to learn the cause.
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842
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The thunder was his wrath; the gathering of the black clouds is the drawing down of Thor's angry brows; the fire-bolt bursting out of
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Erebus Blackness be it enough to discern that this and the other dazzling fire-bolt, dazzling fire-torrent, does by small Volition and great Necessity, verily issue, -- in such and such succession; destructive so and so, self-destructive so and so: till it end.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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