thunder-stroke

If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.

"They all hate Mitt." Ann Althouse 2008

The wretched father asks what God — what sudden thunder-stroke has deprived him of his son.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

“It is one of the mysteries of our nature,” he observed years later, “that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Yesterday a thunder-stroke fell upon me…which for a moment ranged me breast to breast & comraded me as an equal, with all men who have suffered sudden & awful disaster: I found that all their lives my children have been afraid of me! have stood all their days in uneasy dread of my sharp tongue & uncertain temper.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

“It is one of the mysteries of our nature,” he observed years later, “that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Yesterday a thunder-stroke fell upon me…which for a moment ranged me breast to breast & comraded me as an equal, with all men who have suffered sudden & awful disaster: I found that all their lives my children have been afraid of me! have stood all their days in uneasy dread of my sharp tongue & uncertain temper.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

To those who had the misfortune to be married to French women and had children it was a thunder-stroke.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

Absinthe was banned by a thunder-stroke from the Invalides, where the Military Governor had established his headquarters, and Parisians who had acquired the absinthe habit trembled in every limb at this judgment which would reduce them to physical and moral wrecks, as creatures of the drug habit suddenly robbed of their nerve-controlling tabloids.

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

These words fell upon Charlotte like a thunder-stroke: she rose from her seat half-fainting, and unconscious of what she did.

The Editor to the Reader 1917

Before this Napoleonic "thunder-stroke" Syria bent for the moment, apparently terrorized.

The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916