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  • A man and woman are at the winter cabin when a large thunder-clap sends the woman into the mans arms where they profess their love over a gift from Kay.

    2009 November « Denmeister 2009

  • These became more violent as the rain lessened, and, so absolutely were we centred in this electrical maelstrom, there was no connecting any chain or flash or fork of lightning with any particular thunder-clap.

    CHAPTER XXVIII 2010

  • A man and woman are at the winter cabin when a large thunder-clap sends the woman into the mans arms where they profess their love over a gift from Kay.

    Holiday Commercials « Denmeister 2009

  • This word was like a thunder-clap giving warning of a storm about to break.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • The news of the failure of the Panorama – Dramatique had come like a thunder-clap.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • Yes, I realize now that my love had actually crept up more slowly, but at the time it came like a thunder-clap.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Yes, I realize now that my love had actually crept up more slowly, but at the time it came like a thunder-clap.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • There was another glimpse of the flute-player; another thunder-clap from the pianist;

    Dream tales and prose poems 2006

  • The crash of the thunder-clap followed the flash and seemed a part of it, so that it is hard to say whether Bert was the rather deafened or blinded in that instant.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • And then hard upon this little rattle of shots and bombs came, all about him, enveloping him, engulfing him, immense and overwhelming, a quivering white blaze of lightning and a thunder-clap that was like the bursting of a world.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

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