thunderstroke
Americannoun
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Origin of thunderstroke
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"It is one of the mysteries of nature," he said in 1906, after his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis at 24, "that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live."
From Time Magazine Archive
Every word was a thunderstroke to his heart.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson
The child did not bow under this sudden blow of fate, which seemed to put an end to his existence ere it had well begun; he received the thunderstroke standing.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
To her hearer the final phrase was like a thunderstroke.
From Demos by George Gissing
The world seems to be on tiptoe, listening for a thunderstroke of Fate.
From The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War by Sir Hall Caine
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