chain lightning

noun

Chiefly Northeastern and Western U.S. lightning that seems to move very quickly in wavy or zigzag lines.
bead lightning.

chain lightning

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

I gathered another impression, and it was that bonefish were related to dynamite and chain lightning.

Wilson at full is simply chain lightning, and the whole country will be talking of him by November.

I could see their every movement, and it seemed to me that the chain lightning was striking the iron-stone all round them.

Overhead the storm burst in fury, and flash after flash of fork, or rather chain lightning, leapt into the river.

He did the job up pretty well, considering; and as for your Thad, he's chain lightning on the send.

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