thunder-shower

It was hot and still all day Sunday, then a thunder-shower blew in from the Gulf and cooled everything off just before supper time.

The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

A thunder-shower must have brought them out to visit the spot where they were first left.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

Half-way on their return, tired, and each accusing herself, and apologizing to the other, they were surprised by a sudden shower of rain; a violent one; a thunder-shower; no shelter; they were forced to run for it towards a distant tree; which, when they approached, they found wet through; as they both were.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Under the trees of this cemetery nestled a warm breathless gloom, out of which the cypresses stood up straight and mute, above which the willows hung low and still; where the flowers, as languid as fair, waited listless for night dew or thunder-shower; where the tombs, and those they hid, lay impassible to sun or shadow, to rain or drought.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

There is, indeed, only a small part under cultivation in this fertile valley, but my mind naturally turned to the comparison of it with Kolobeng, where we waited anxiously during months for rain, and only a mere thunder-shower followed.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

A thunder-shower descending completed the partial drenching of the plain, and gave a cold, uncomfortable “packing in a wet blanket” that night.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

A black thunder-shower was followed by a dust storm which turned the sky yellow with the hint of a coming tornado.

Main Street 2004

A cloud was passing across the middle of the valley, from which rolling thunder pealed, while above all was glorious sunlight; and when we went down to the part where we saw it passing, we found that a very heavy thunder-shower had fallen under the path of the cloud; and the bottom of the valley, which from above seemed quite smooth, we discovered to be intersected and furrowed by great numbers of deep-cut streams.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

In one heavy thunder-shower the lightning struck a large pitch pine across the pond, making a very conspicuous and perfectly regular spiral groove from top to bottom, an inch or more deep, and four or five inches wide, as you would groove a walking-stick.

Walden 2004

We ourselves once saw a heavy thunder-shower make it assume its ancient appearance of running to the north.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004