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The cavity is naturally excited by electric currents in lightning.
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(Smiter with Lightning), but, when they referred to me, spoke of "Him who slew with thunderbolts", or in some other more or less roundabout fashion evaded any direct use of the word lightning.] "Well," I replied, "to be quite candid with you, Mapela, I believe it is
Through Veld and Forest An African Story Harry Collingwood 1886
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She also came to learn more of what she could do with magic; power did not have to be overwhelming to be effective'something as "simple" as the elven maid's flower-sculpting ability could be as devastatingly effective as calling lightning.
The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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It is without question that fierce and most destructive fluid called lightning.
Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922
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It is without question that fierce and most destructive fluid called lightning.
Sketches New and Old, Part 3. Mark Twain 1872
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It is without question that fierce and most destructive fluid called lightning.
Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872
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He was armed with thunder, to indicate he produced meteors, to typify the electric fluid that is called lightning.
The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756
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But I had a long drive home on Friday afternoon, going east from Kitchener, first along the 401, then the 407 and then north on the 400, a small droplet in the stream of dedicated cottagers, laden with canoes, sleeping bags and coolers, who were escaping the concrete jungle for the sparkling lakes and forests of northern Ontario, at the speed of --well, let's just say it wasn't "lightning."
Emergency (?) Belinda 2009
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It is well you did not try the greater, such as lightning.
Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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Tomorrow he would begin to unleash another kind of lightning.
The Shadow Rising Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1992
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