thonder
Britishadverb
Etymology
Origin of thonder
C19: of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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A must go roun' be a tank thonder, an' that manes lavin' ye yer lone.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
Whilst I thus mazed was with great affray, I saw the heavens in warre against her rize: Then downe she stricken fell with clap of thonder, That with great noyse I wakte in sudden wonder.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund
Wide was his parish and houses fer asonder, But he left nought for ne rain no thonder, In sickness and in mischief to visite The ferrest in his parish, moche and lite.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry
And ek so lowde his belle is runge, That of the noise and of the soun Men feeren hem in al the toun Welmore than thei don of thonder.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
He, takynge all paciently, sayde: dyd nat I tell you that, whan I herde Xantippe thonder so fast, that it wolde rayne anone after?
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew
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