lightning-flash

And in that moment she remembered Planchette; it seared her brain as a lightning-flash of all-embracing memory.

Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3 2010

And when he has bade him welcome to Ailbe, Our Lord will say, 'Where is the lightning-flash of the Western World?

St Patrick's Day John 2009

And when he has bade him welcome to Ailbe, Our Lord will say, 'Where is the lightning-flash of the Western World?

St Berthold's Feast Day. . . . John 2009

They did not know him for what he was, a lightning-flash of slaughter.

The Enemy of His Kind 2010

He dared not risk a fight with this young lightning-flash, and again he knew, and more bitterly, the enfeeblement of oncoming age.

The Famine 2010

It enacts the lightning-flash realization by the first-person narrator of the coincidence of opposites: at first we have the cell with its two rooms, one lit by a bland electric light, the other more colorful and lit by a great glass chandelier.

Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites 2007

He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Caesar, his conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the thunderclap of

Les Miserables 2008

To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is to conquer!

Les Miserables 2008

CAMPBELL BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Tonight, everybody, stunning -- before the night is over, the presidential candidates and their running mates will have blitzed through 16 different states, a lightning-flash blur of 11th-hour campaigning.

CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2008 2008

The spattering of a lightning-flash is of the thunder also.

Les Miserables 2008