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Origin of thunderstroke1
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These words fell upon Charlotte like a thunderstroke: she rose from her seat half-fainting, and unconscious of what she did.
This fell on the province with the power and rapidity of a thunderstroke; it made no cry, no movement; Bretagne expired.
Only when every evasion has been exhausted comes the thunderstroke which reverses the whole situation.
It may be imagined that this was a thunderstroke to Madame: it nearly killed her.
But I wanted the man to feel more than a swift thunderstroke of mortal agony.
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