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In all these many scenes there are but two mythological figures: one is Selene, used to represent Night, and the other is _Jupiter tonans, _ who indicates
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
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The Colonel answered with the voice of Jupiter tonans:
The Man With The Broken Ear Edmond About 1856
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The man, not content with moustaches, now sports an entire beard, and I am sure thinks himself like Jupiter tonans.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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He was the Jupiter tonans of this Olympus, and was surrounded by the inferior gods and goddesses of his court.
Tales of a Traveller 1824
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He was the Jupiter tonans of this Olympus, and was surrounded by the interior gods and goddesses of his court.
Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821
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Panegyrici veteres qvos ex codice ms. librisqve collatis recensvit ae notis integris iisqve partim ad hve ineditis Christiani Gottlibii Schwarzii et excerptis aliorvm additis etiam svis instrvxit et illvstravit Wolfgangvs Iaegervs .. Schwarz, Christian Gottlieb, 1675-1751 1779
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Two resolutions he came to; the first that he would not read his sermon, but _commit_ it and deliver it as like the extempore utterance of which he was incapable as might be -- a piece of falsehood entirely understood, and justified by Scotch custom; the second, to take rather more than a hint from the fashion of preaching now so much in favour amongst the seceders and missionars: he would be a _Jupiter tonans_, wielding the forked lightnings of the law against the sins of Glamerton.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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Mr Hawthorne and Mr Willingham; I dare say they are not very busy "-- quoth our _Jupiter tonans_ from on high in the dining-room, where he held his court; and accordingly in he came.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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