forky
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Thou Har, who grip’st thy foeman Right hard, and Rolf the bowman, And many, many others, The forky lightning’s brothers!
From Targum by George Henry Borrow
Meantime, the gath'ring clouds obscure the skies: From pole to pole the forky lightning flies; The rattling thunders roll; and Juno pours A wintry deluge down, and sounding show'rs.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
Salmoneus, suff'ring cruel pains, I found, For emulating Jove; the rattling sound Of mimic thunder, and the glitt'ring blaze Of pointed lightnings, and their forky rays.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
There is a little forky flashing description of the entrance to the Val d'Ema in Guido's first statement.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
His malice had redoubled—not on me Who, myself, choose my own refining fire— But on poor unsuspicious innocence; And,—victim,—to turn executioner Also—that feat effected, forky tongue Had done indeed its office!
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
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