fulmine
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of fulmine
First recorded in 1580–90, fulmine is from the Latin word fulmināre
Example Sentences
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From what hand shall it fulmine over England as over Greece?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
Such, for instance, are these lines and phrases— Altitonans Volturnus et auster fulmine pollens19.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
Fama est, Enceladi semiustum fulmine corpus Urgeri mole hac, ingentemque insuper Aetnam Impositam, ruptis flammam expirare caminis; Et, fessum quoties mutet latus, intremere omnem Murmure Trinacriam, et coelum subtexere fumo.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
"Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet, atque Ossâ frondosum involvere Olympum; Ter pater exstructos dejecit fulmine montes."
From Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by Hughes, John
These are his words; "In Catilianis prodigiis, Pompeiano ex municipio M. Herennius Decurio serena die, fulmine ictus est."
From Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos by Hamilton, William
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